Integy at Braunton Academy!

Braunton Academy choose Integy for IT Transformation and Support

First week of Integy support! Pictured, left to right: Fay Bowler - Principle, Braunton Academy - Mick Tattersall - IT Network Manager, Integy - Sally Piper - Business Manager - Braunton Academy , Harvey Martin - Cloud Apprentice, Integy - Ryan Jewell - Co-Founder, Integy - James Cook - Co-Founder, Integy

Integy are pleased to announce the start of a 2-year IT Support partnership with Braunton Academy in Devon. Following a tender process, Integy were selected to take on all elements of IT modernisation, monitoring and support including the provision of dedicated onsite support.

Braunton Academy is an increasingly popular and oversubscribed community school where learning and well-being are at the forefront of their ethos for all to ‘Aspire & Achieve’. The Academy works hard at maintaining a careful balance between students personal well-being and the challenge of their academic studies, providing carefully orchestrated practices to develop personality and character, whilst recognising that nothing is achieved without one giving of his/her best.

Integy have worked with Braunton Academy on several distinct projects over the last year including:

IT Strategy Support
Migration of Mail services from Google to Microsoft 365
Migration of data from Google to Microsoft 365
Implementation of enhanced security controls
Implementation of a new Microsoft Teams telephony solution

Following these successful project outcomes, the Integy team have built a great working relationship with the Academy and are thrilled to move the relationship into a full support of the IT estate. The IT support partnership includes the transition of the existing IT Network Manager (Mick) over to Integy who will bring instant value to the growing Integy team.

What does Mick have to say about all this change?

"Being in Educational IT for 23 years & working alongside Integy in the Google to M365 migration & Teams telephony, I was instantly impressed on how professionally they worked with a great attention to detail.

I was thrilled to hear that they were taking over Braunton Academy's IT services with myself moving to the Integy team. I am looking forward to seeing more of what these guys can do and achieve as well as being involved in more exciting projects going forward.

For me, Integy are the perfect choice for Braunton Academy and an extremely exciting time for me professionally working for a company with a great ethos, I have been welcomed into the team and now look forward to seeing what the future brings.

Mick Tattersall"

We are collectively looking towards the summer break in Education where the IT transformation at Braunton Academy will continue with:

Rebuild of End User Devices to by fully cloud managed with Azure AD and Intune
Removal of legacy on-premises server infrastructure providing an ongoing capital expenditure, power and carbon saving.
Implementation of additional Identity and Data Security controls
Local network and WIFI refresh to a Zero Trust model

We would like to thank everyone at Braunton Academy for being so welcoming and fun to work with!

Integy are regularly applying our cross-sector experience to Educational establishments in need of IT strategy and transformation support, by supporting existing IT teams or direct support to the leadership teams.

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Call us today on 01392 796525 or Email us at ask@integy.co.uk

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