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February 22nd 2012 in News
essensys has ‘gone live’ with three new i2Office sites; Gracechurch Street in the City of London, Chancery Place in Manchester and Meridien House in Watford.
i2Office Gracechurch Street provides contemporary office accommodation in the heart of London. Located next to Monument Tube, i2 Gracechurch Street provides high-spec serviced offices and a world-class business lounge.
i2Office Chancery Place is located on Brown Street, in Manchester’s traditional business quarter. Less than 10 minutes walk from both Piccadilly and Victoria train stations, i2 Chancery Place offers two floors of brand new ‘grade A’ fully serviced offices and a comfortable business lounge.
i2Office Meridien House is located on Clarendon Road, the preferred business location for Watford. Adjacent to Watford Junction Station, i2 Meridien House is a Grade A newly refurbished building with excellent transport links.
February 16th 2012 in News
The network engineer will be expected to have experience in a number of technology disciplines, and in specialised telecommunications fields such as LAN and WAN technologies, traffic analysis, capacity planning, modelling and problem resolution. This position requires someone who has excellent interpersonal and implementation skills. The successful candidate will specialise in LAN infrastructure, both within a wired and wireless environment, and will have an extremely high standard of technical knowledge.
The senior support engineer will have at least three years experience of dealing with external customers in a technical role, hands-on network experience and hands-on telephony support experience. The role is office based but visits to customer sites will be required. The successful candidate will have outstanding customer service skills, in-depth knowledge of TCP/IP, routing protocols and NAT, and significant experience of network configuration, voice troubleshooting and voice configuration
For full details of either job please email: simplicity@essensys.co.uk
February 14th 2012 in News
essensys CEO Mark Furness last week attended a House of Commons reception in support of the Business Centre Association’s (BCA) Empty Property Rates (EPR) campaign.
The BCA is calling on the Government to reinstate the EPR threshold to £18,000 RV and to introduce an exemption period of three years for all new speculative and refurbished property developments.
Politicians from all major parties expressed their support for the BCA’s campaign at the reception, which was attended by over 50 MPs and flexible space operators from around the UK.
Jennifer Brooke, BCA Executive Director, said: “Business centres are playing a vital role in the UK economy by supporting more than 40,000 SMEs and start ups. The benefits of raising the EPR threshold would far outweigh the costs, as it would lead to job creation, incentivise investment and stimulate growth which has come to a standstill since the threshold was reduced.”
Full details of the reception can be found here. Please join the petition to raise the EPR here.
February 10th 2012 in News
essensys has been appointed as provider of ICT services to Maxet House Business Centres’ new Stevenage site, Antelope House.
Andrena White, Manager of Antelope House said: “ I am delighted to be opening a new Maxet House Business Centre in Stevenage to add to our growing group of centres. The newly refurbished centre brings much needed flexible office and meeting room space to the area.
“Antelope House is in a prime location, within walking distance of the train station and the old town, a three minute drive from the A1, and only 20 minutes from London Luton airport.
“The usual trepidation I felt as I ventured, once more, into the world of telecoms and IT was quickly dispelled by talking to essensys; I would even go so far as to say it has been a pleasure.
JEFF really is a brilliant management tool and the essensys team have certainly taken the terror out of telecoms.”
February 7th 2012 in News
essensys are attending the UKPSA February Members Meeting, which takes place today and tomorrow at Colworth Science Park; the leading enterprise hub for scientific excellence in food, health and wellness.
Hosted by Unilever and Goodman, the event comprises study tours, networking, and conference sessions, the theme of which is ‘Collaborate to Compete’. Keynote speakers include Jonathan Hague and Jonathan Reeves from Unilever, Professor Quintin McKellar from University of Hertfordshire, and Richard Fuller MP.
essensys are looking forward to talking about technology and, in particular, the value of JEFF and the essensysCloud to intelligent buildings.
Full details of the event can be viewed here.
February 6th 2012 in News
Last week was a great press week for essensys. In addition to coverage in the Yorkshire Post, essensys was featured in two of the ICT industry’s foremost publications, Comms Business and Comms4Business.
The articles detail essensys partnership with Inspire Bradford Business Park, Europe’s largest straw bale building, and outline the reasons essensys came out top when the time came for Inspire Bradford to choose their technology solution.
Tony Holdich, Chief Executive of Inspire Bradford, said “What set essensys apart from its competitors was its ability to deliver superfast, flexible services… via a cloud computing platform, which meets with the green credentials of the business park perfectly as cloud computing is proven to be more energy efficient than regular network servers, as it eliminates the need for a server room and the hefty air conditioning equipment associated with keeping these rooms at the correct temperature.”
See the article in Comms Business here and the article in Comms4Business here.
January 31st 2012 in News
‘Yorkshire’s National Newspaper’ has covered the news of essensys’ appointment as IT and communications provider to Inspire Bradford Business Park. The BREEAM accredited innovation centre, which will be the home of Europe’s largest straw bale constructed buildings, selected essensys after a tendering process involving a number of IT providers.
essensys will provide the park, which is due to open in March, with information and communication technology services including super-fast internet access and MITEL VOIP telephony. Tenants at Inspire Bradford will be able to use services including essensys’ pioneering management tool, JEFF – an automated system that enables instant service provision, real-time billing, service guides and various other information that tenants may need.
The full Yorkshire Post article can be read here.
January 24th 2012 in News
essensys are pleased to welcome our newest customer, Videology Group to JEFF™.
Videology is an online video advertising platform that enables advertisers to improve performance by connecting brands with specific audiences, while concentrating on the advertiser’s objective.
With offices throughout Canada and the US, Videology have seen their UK operation expand quickly and decided to move into Centre Point in London’s media district to facilitate their continued growth.
After taking advice from their new neighbours Petro China and William Morris Endeavor, Videology decided that the reliability and availability essensys offer made JEFF™ the perfect choice of ICT to deliver their online video advertising platform.
January 12th 2012 in News
Winner of the essensys Fastest Growing Operator award, i2 Office has announced the opening of a third City of London business centre, 40 Gracechurch Street.
Situated next to Monument tube station, features of i2 Office’s new Gracechurch Street centre will include executive lounge facilities, contemporary office accommodation suitable for up to fifty workstations and, of course, the very latest, state of the art technologies from essensys.
i2 Office CEO, Philip Grace commented: “Gracechurch Street will be a welcome addition to our nationwide network and further strengthens our London City offer. We have seen high demand for our other centres in London, most recently with Aldersgate, filling up rapidly. We anticipate strong interest in Gracechurch Street.”
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December 22nd 2011 in News
Officebroker.com has named Imperial Court ‘Business Centre of the Month’ for December 2011.
After an extensive £2.5m refurbishment, Imperial Court is one of Manchester’s prime business centres with a contemporary interior and excellent fit-out throughout, Herman Miller designer furniture and a stylish environment complete with world class IT and telecoms networks from BCA trade supplier of the year, essensys.
Chris Meredith, Head of UK Sales for Officebroker.com, commented “Imperial Court is a first-class centre with a fantastic team to match, and they really deserve this recognition for all of their hard work and success.”
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