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Welcome to
Enhanced Business Solutions, Inc.

Your Information Technology (IT) Partner
  • Paul Brown
  • 2004


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Agenda
  • Company Background
  • Mission
  • Strategy
  • Customers
  • Expertise
  • Products & Services
  • Business Model


  • On-Line Request System
  • “As Is”
  • “To Be”
  • Return on Investment
  • Requirements
  • Next Steps


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Company Background


  • EBSI was incorporated in June 1994 and is headquartered in Alexandria, VA.


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Mission

  • “Our mission is to provide enterprise-class technology solutions to small businesses, while developing long-term customer partnerships that are built on honesty, integrity and pride of workmanship.”
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Strategy
  •  EBSI leverages extensive experience and expertise gained from supporting government and commercial environments to provide enterprise-class solutions that are managed remotely.
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Customers
  • Small business market
  • Primarily serving Washington, DC and surrounding states
    • Support available for satellite locations
  • Services provided vary with organization
    • Smaller companies usually require “general” IT support
    • Larger companies require “expertise” to supplement in-house expertise
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Expertise
  • Management and Technical Engineering Expertise
    • DoD consultants responsible for designing and deploying military medical infrastructure components globally
  • Vendor certification
    • Microsoft
    • Cisco
    • Novell
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Products and Services
  • We provide services that are available to large corporations, thereby eliminating the expense of maintaining a full-time IT support staff.
  • Single-source infrastructure solutions include:
    • Hardware
    • Software
    • Networking
    • Web Sites
    • E-mail
    • Anti-Virus
    • Security Patch Installation
    • On & Offsite Backup
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Business Model
  • We maintain and monitor your IT infrastructure.
    • Purchase corporate licenses for software and distribute it remotely to clients
    • Remote administration is accomplished by Virtual Private Network technology
      • Off-site backup, de-fragmentation, patches, anti-virus
  • Our business model is designed to complement our customer’s business model not interrupt it.
    • Support hours
      • Evenings and weekends
      • Mon thru Fri daytime hours (by exception)

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On-Line Request System
  • The On-Line Request (OLR) system is designed to provide customers the ability to enter service requests directly into our web-based tracking system www.ebsiweb.com.


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Secure Customer Acct
  • Separate secure area on web site for each customer
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"How this applies to your..."



  • How this applies to your environment
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“As Is” Workgroup
  • Currently operating in a peer-to-peer network
    • Each user shares resources with other users based on machine-by-machine configuration


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“To Be” Client-Server
  • Install Microsoft Small Business Server
    • Centralized Data Storage
    • Centralized E-mail
    • Protection of Sensitive Data
    • Remote Accessibility
    • Backup and Restore


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Return On Investment
  • Measured by assigning value
    • Secure Remote Access
      • Off-site access
      • Sharing files between offices securely
    • Disaster Recovery Cost
      • Back-up & Restore
      • Acts of Nature, Human Intentional and Un-intentional, Viruses
    • Information Assurance (Due Diligence)
    • Reliable E-mail (opportunity costs if your client can’t contact you)
    • Repeatable processes and standardization
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Requirements
  • High-speed Internet connection
  • Hardware
    • Juniper VPN/Firewall
    • Server
  • Software
    • Server software
    • Backup software
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Next Steps
  • Identify components and costs
  • Present quote for approval
  • Purchase equipment and software
  • Schedule installation
  • Install and migrate data
  • Train users
  • Maintain
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"Questions"



  • Questions?