InTechnology Sits Comfortably With Barker and Stonehouse

InTechnology Sits Comfortably With Barker and Stonehouse

HARROGATE, England, September 13, 2011/PRNewswire/ --

    Furniture Retailer Turns to InTechnology to Boost Business Efficiencies

    Barker and Stonehouse, the UK's largest family-run furniture retailer
and online store continues to partner with InTechnology to strengthen its
communications infrastructure.

    For the last six years Barker and Stonehouse has turned to InTechnology
as a trusted partner to solve a number of IT network and performance issues,
such as sending large graphics files, across its eight stores and four
warehouses.

    Chris Fletcher, IT and telecoms manager at Barker and Stonehouse said:
"The high-quality photographs of our furniture were, and remain, an
important part of our marketing mix but sending them down the network was
slowing everything down and impacting productivity. InTechnology provided us
with a resilient, high bandwidth MPLS network which meant we could
successfully send large files to any company location."

    Natalie Duffield, Director of Sales and Customer Management at
InTechnology said: "Barker and Stonehouse came to us with a number of
requirements aimed at improving its network, supporting its growth and
maintaining its high levels of customer satisfaction.

    "In our six years working with Barker and Stonehouse we have seen the
company grow from strength to strength. InTechnology's services have helped
it streamline its IT and customer service functions, taking on many of the
back-end IT operations and freeing up the retailer's IT department to
concentrate on core, business-critical activities. The company's bandwidth
has been tripled making day-to-day business activities such as file sharing
and data management much easier."

    In addition to the business efficiencies, Barker and Stonehouse has also
made a number of cost savings. The company has seen a significant reduction
in its annual IT expenditure by switching to InTechnology's services.
Deploying InTechnology's VoIP solution has resulted in all inter-branch
calls being free of charge, and its upgraded, higher-bandwidth network costs
Barker and Stonehouse less than it had been paying BT.

    Chris Fletcher concludes: "As we've grown, InTechnology has also been
developing its services and I feel we have grown together. We look forward
to working with InTechnology in the future and reaping the rewards of what
has proved to be an excellent partnership."

    About InTechnology:

    InTechnology ( http://www.intechnology.com) is one of the UK's
leading service providers and delivers Cloud-based services to over 800
public and private sector businesses across the UK. It has an unrivalled mix
of skills embracing Network, Hosting, Data, Voice and Unified
Communications. InTechnology is also the first UK provider to integrate
hosted IP Telephony with Microsoft OCS and offer it as a fully managed,
hosted service. We've now added Hosted Exchange to the solution and to
provide a complete, unique and fully managed Unified Communications package.
With 25 years experience as leaders and innovators in the managed services
market, InTechnology continue to be ahead of the curve in the solutions they
bring to their customers.

Source: InTechnology

Media contact: Fiona Whyatt/Michael Portz, t. +44(0)1625-500800, e. intechnology@insightmkt.com