Reducing Business Downtime when moving office

One of the most challenging tasks you will face when organising an office relocation.  Aside from getting all your office belongings to your new office on time and to budget, you will also need to consider how you are going to disconnect, transport, and re-connect all your business communication systems safely and securely to the new office without the hassle and inconvenience of losing valuable business time.

No truer is the saying “time is money” than when it comes to moving office. If your phones aren’t ringing in your new office and emails and network are down your business is likely to come to a grinding holt!

Many companies fail to fully appreciate the complexities of an IT relocation.  They assume that their PCs and business phones will automatically “plug in and work" in the new office and this is far from true.  Have you considered whether the network cabling has the right infrastructure to meet your network and data requirements? Are the phone points in the right place in the new office and are there enough phone lines? The answer to all these is probably not! The previous tenant requirements are unlikely to match your own and it’s likely you will need to alter, install and reconfigure the basic cabling prior to moving in.

Servers, PCs and phone systems will need to be seamlessly transitioned so that staff can arrive on the first morning and resume “business as usual”.  For this to happen, you will need to have designed an IT Test Plan to carry out when you get to the new office so that all IT equipment and business phones are working as they should. 

An IT & Telecoms company will take care of your IT relocation and conduct a site survey to establish what needs to be installed in order to reduce any business downtime at the other end.  This enables you to concentrate on the day-to-day operations of the organisation.  To find an IT relocation company in your area, click here.