Unique IT services for your business

PPGs Technical Consultancy can be used by both IT and Non IT companies enabling our clients to reduce project schedules, resource costs, and business risk including three areas:

1. Independent Advice
2. Performance Engineering 
3. Penetrations Testing

Independent advice
Typically, PPGs advisers have 10+ years of relevant experience with a broad knowledge of business focused ICT challenges facing SME organisations and their solutions.  This includes providing a business focused telephone advisory service to SME clients as well as “face-to-face” Diagnostic Reviews and Action Plans.  Our expert advisers will help ensure that your IT systems are really benefiting and giving you a competitive edge.

Performance Engineering
Our service includes these 3 key areas:

1. Load Testing
2. Stress Testing
3. Soak Testing

These three methods of testing software applications give results from an assessment of:

• the numbers of concurrent users to a figure that the business believes to be a true representation of the load expected (Load Testing)
• all tiers of a solution available (Web, Application, Database, etc.) and pushes the solution to a point where it becomes ‘unfit for purpose’ with screens ‘freeze’ or the  application fails (Stress Testing) 
• the maximum loads over an extended period in an endeavour to uncover weaknesses in coding or applications e.g. memory leaks (Soak Testing)

Penetration Testing
Penetration Testing should be built into every application destined for online deployment as part of a correct application security policy.  The benefits of Penetration Testing can help the companies to: 

• prevent fraud / financial loss from hackers and malicious activity 
• reduce risks to business operations from unauthorised logins 
• comply with industry regulation and standards (FSA, Basel II, Sarbanes-Oxley, etc.)

PPG undertakes two types of penetration testing:

1. BlackBox (No Login / Passwords)
2. WhiteBox (Login / Passwords Provided)

If you need instant access to a person with vast experience in a particular area with a proven track record then an interim manager from PPG will match your needs.  Employed for short term contracts, interim managers can help you implement significant change to your business especially because the role might not be a permanent position or a permanent manager cannot be found fast enough.  The key benefits of using interim managers are speed, experience, focus, independence and knowledge transfer.

PPG can help you with business development by assessing marketing opportunities, follow-up sales activity and business model design.  Our experience of marketing and sales will allow you realise the full potential of your product and services.

Some SMEs do not often establish procedures for business development but rely on their existing contacts.  However, if you look at larger and more well-established companies, especially in IT, business development often refers to creating and managing strategic relationships and alliances with other, third party companies.

In addition, we can now help your business improve its web prescence helping you with Search Engine Optimisation (SEO) because what's the point of having a website if nobody knows it exists!

These are the ways that PPG can help your business grow!