Neighbouring farmers, Farmer Jim and Farmer Hugh both had
mouse problems because the mice were eating their stocks of harvested
corn. Farmer Jim resorted to building
the biggest, fastest and best mouse trap that he could design, expecting to
catch hundreds of mice. He ended up with
three dead mice and no corn left.
Farmer Hugh hired an expert, a cat who resolved the mouse
problem and ensured didn’t return, and left the farmer with a barn full of
corn.
Moral of this story, you don’t have to be an expert, you
just have to hire the right one.
Like the two farmers, IT departments need to be
multi-skilled to service the varied demands of users, an organisation’s own systems
as well as legal compliance and government legislation. We’re
lucky because over the years we’ve honed our skills in one particular
area. Together with our Mailsafe product
we’re experts in email archiving, email migration, mailbox size reduction etc,
with specialist skills in moving from Exchange to NHSmail/NHSmail2. Like the farmer’s cat we supply and provide a
solution to a particular problem and ensure that it doesn’t come back.