Technical consultancy, West Wales. Working across the UK and internationally.
Infrastructure, networks and cloud, engineered and explained.
WE Consult IT is an established technical consultancy. We design and deliver infrastructure projects, resolve the faults that have outlasted the usual fixes and help organisations, from new startups to established IT departments, make sound technology decisions.
- More than 20 yearsof professional experience across enterprise infrastructure, cloud, networking and security
- Six service areasfrom networks and Microsoft cloud to data infrastructure and integration
- UK-wide and internationalremote, with on-site work in the UK and abroad by agreement
- Agreed individuallyfixed project quotations, daily consultancy or tailored support
Who we work with
From a first hire to an established IT department
The same experience, applied at the scale you need. Services are tailored to each organisation, never sold as a fixed package.
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Startups
Experienced technical expertise without hiring a full-time IT specialist or building a department. Planning, set-up, integration and optional support, agreed as you grow.
Startup services -
Small businesses
Dependable IT for everyday business: Microsoft 365, networking, Wi-Fi, security and maintenance, with clear advice in plain language.
Business IT services -
Growing businesses
Infrastructure expansion, cloud migration, security improvements, network modernisation and systems integration as the business outgrows its set-up.
Projects and planning -
Established IT departments
Tier 3 escalation, complex investigations and specialist project work that sit alongside your own team, not in place of it.
Working alongside your team
Services
What we work on
Choose an area to see the services, the technologies involved and how organisations usually engage us. Each area has its own page.
Networks and wireless
Design, installation and fault-finding for wired, wireless and multi-site networks, documented so your own team can run them.
- Network design and installation
- Switching and routing, VLANs
- Firewalls and UTM
- VPN, Zero Trust and conditional access
- Network authentication, RADIUS and encryption
- High availability
- Wi-Fi surveys, planning and point-to-point links
- Network troubleshooting
Technologies
Microsoft 365 and Azure
Planned migrations, tenant consolidation, cloud desktops, identity and access and the Azure infrastructure behind them.
- Pre-migration discovery and planning
- On-premises and cloud-to-cloud migrations
- Tenant migration and consolidation
- Azure Virtual Desktop and Windows 365
- Identity and access management
- Azure infrastructure
- Configuration and troubleshooting
- Security configuration, user management and support
Technologies
Infrastructure engineering
Architecture, deployment, modernisation and investigation for on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
- Infrastructure architecture
- On-premises, cloud and hybrid environments
- Deployment and modernisation
- System integration
- Performance troubleshooting
- Resilience, availability, backup and recovery
- Infrastructure assessments
- Documentation and hand-over
Environments
Security and compliance
Infrastructure security assessments with prioritised findings, practical remediation and preparation for Cyber Essentials.
- Infrastructure security assessments
- Configuration reviews
- Access control reviews
- Vulnerability assessments
- Recommendations and remediation assistance
- Security consultancy
- Cyber Essentials preparation and related assistance
- Formal penetration testing, arranged through external specialists when required
Approach
Data infrastructure
Specialist consultancy on the infrastructure beneath data platforms: availability, performance, integration and the environments data processing runs in.
- Data infrastructure consultancy
- Infrastructure for data processing environments
- Database and application integration
- Performance investigations
- Pipeline environments in Azure
- API and systems integration
Experience includes
Systems integration and development
Connecting systems that need to work together, and building the tools no product provides.
- API and software integration
- Integration between applications and databases
- Automation
- Bespoke application development
- Technical prototypes and proofs of concept
- Technical feasibility assessments
- Infrastructure for development and research environments
Approach
Consultancy
How organisations engage us
The same expertise in five shapes of work. Each is scoped to the problem and agreed in advance, as a fixed project quotation, daily consultancy or a tailored support arrangement.
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Tier 3 escalation
For faults and failures that have outlasted your team or your suppliers. We investigate, work to find the cause and explain what we find.
Tier 3: specialist-level support, where problems that first and second-line teams could not resolve are investigated in depth.
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Projects
Design and delivery of infrastructure, network, migration and integration work, with documentation your team can use afterwards.
Projects -
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Assessment and advice
An independent technical view before you commit: reviews, second opinions and technology decisions.
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Prototypes
A working environment that proves an approach before it is funded, ending with what it showed.
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Continuing support
Tailored ongoing support, arranged individually where it suits both sides. It is never a mandatory retainer.
Continuing support
Projects and experience
Experience behind the work
Our work draws on more than 20 years of professional experience in enterprise infrastructure, networking, cloud, information security, systems integration and data infrastructure, including technology leadership at chief information officer level.
Typical problems we are asked about
- Multi-site networks that need redesigning without disrupting the business
- Authentication failures that appear only for some users, devices or sites
- Infrastructure that has slowed down and nobody can say where
- Cloud migrations and tenant consolidations after an acquisition
- Systems that do not talk to each other and need integrating
Insights
Latest articles
Start with a conversation.
Tell us what you are dealing with. Where we can help, we will get back to you to arrange a call.
Remote across the UK and internationally. On site in the UK, and abroad where agreed.