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Based in London, Kent, and Essex, Kreston Reeves advises dynamic organisations, private individuals, and families on all areas of business, tax, and wealth. They seamlessly combine traditional accountancy services with specialist services in corporate finance, business advice, online accounting, and tax. The firm is growing, recently merging with Spofforths and Munslows, and now has over 500 users at 10 UK offices.

Results

Kreston Reeves achieved enhanced IT support and operational efficiency, enabling their in-house team to focus on strategic tasks. The integration of new users and improved IT services facilitated smooth mergers and business continuity.

Services Delivered

boxxe has helped Kreston Reeves smoothly handle two mergers, including a complex email migration for 200 new users.

Technologies Deployed

The boxxe Group provides 24/7 IT infrastructure management and support. Our contract was extended for an additional 3 years, and we also provide IT consultancy for major projects.

Industry Sector

Kreston Reeves are Chartered accountants and business financial advisers.

Business Driver

Kreston Reeves needed additional support and improved IT services to support their internal IT team.

Krestone Reeves Chichester office

Challenge

As a growing business, Kreston Reeves faced the complex challenge of integrating IT systems following multiple mergers. This specific integration involved managing the transition of 200 new users into their existing IT infrastructure. Despite having a brilliant and capable in-house IT team, they also needed an external partner to provide strategic advice, handle the heavy lifting of IT system integration, and offer 24/7 support. The primary challenges included ensuring email migration, maintaining operational continuity, and managing out-of-hours IT issues without disrupting daily activities.

Plan

The boxxe Group was selected to provide managed IT support services. Initially, this included a one-year monitoring and third-line support contract, which was extended for a further three years and expanded to proactive management.

Approach

The boxxe Group now provides 24/7 monitoring for Kreston Reeves’ main IT platform, including servers and storage, with proactive patching and updates. They also offer P1 fixes out of hours and third-line support for the in-house IT team, handling some licence management as well.

Outcome

With the support of the boxxe Group, Kreston Reeves successfully navigated the complexities of merging IT systems from multiple firms. The email migration for 200 new users was completed efficiently, minimising downtime and ensuring continuity. The in-house IT team now saves significant time by outsourcing system monitoring and out-of-hours issue resolution to boxxe. This shift has allowed them to focus on strategic initiatives and core business functions without the burden of constant system oversight. The proactive approach and 24/7 support have enhanced the overall IT infrastructure, ensuring reliability and responsiveness to any critical issues that arise.

We looked at several providers before choosing the boxxe Group. Rather than just trying to sell us their service in a boardroom, we really liked it that the team invited us to see where they work and showed us their service desk in action, so we had a much better idea of what we would be signing up to.

At this stage there were actually a couple of providers we liked the look of so we decided to use the boxxe Group and another company for trial consultancy projects.

After working with the consultants on a couple of key projects we got a good idea of what the service would be like. We felt that boxxe would be best for us, because they understood our outlook – like us, they were very open and honest. The engineers did a really good job, including resolving a priority one (P1) support issue for free before we had a contract in place.

The boxxe Group team has a good grip on things, and they understand our needs as an accountancy firm. That’s why the P1 issues are dealt with out of hours – we can't wait until 9am to fix something; it has to be working when the first users arrive at 7am.

If a critical server fails to reboot overnight, they will jump in and fix it, and make sure that server comes back up. The next morning, our accountants are using it before our IT team even arrives for the day.

Due to our confidence in the boxxe Group's responsive support, our IT team saves time by pushing more issues to boxxe. Previously, the internal team had to monitor systems in an evening, and would need to fix out-of-hours problems – this is all handled by boxxe now.

Chris Madden
IT and Operations Director
Kreston Reeves

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