Edinburgh · Glasgow · West Lothian

Your IT department, without the overheads.

Techead provides computer consulting and IT solutions to small and medium-sized businesses, supporting mission-critical systems with proven technology and outsourced IT services.

Security-first Open Source specialists On-site & remote support
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How we work

More than a vendor: your SiteGeeks

We become more than a partner or an outsourcing vendor to our customers: we actually become an IT department, the SiteGeeks that really keep things moving.

This seamless integration leads to improved competitiveness, profitability and efficiency. Imagine having all of the advantages and services previously enjoyed only by large companies with expensive IT departments.

Imagine focusing on your business instead of your computer network. Imagine higher profits and effective IT solutions.

Solutions include

Everything a growing business needs

  • Web server management and support
  • Computer networking and network security
  • Network monitoring and computer support
  • SPAM filtering
  • Application development
  • Data mining
  • And many other customised solutions requested by our customers

Ready to stop worrying about IT?

Tell us what’s slowing you down and we’ll suggest the simplest fix.

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Support

Techead is able to provide tailored support packages with various levels of support and response to suit all your IT needs, e.g. on-site, remote and telephone support.

Depending on your needs, Techead will carry out IT audits and provide remote support, including server error log checking, update installation and timely security patch updates, plus off-site backup.

Remote desktop support

For client machines, plus server administration for Open Source powered systems, enabling you to cut maintenance costs and make savings on software licensing fees.

Website support

On our servers or yours, plus server administration for Open Source powered systems.

Hands-on call-outs

Techie visits to fix up your machines in house.

Need a hand right now?

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Web development

At Techead we are specialists in web development. We can build custom websites and are experienced in using some of the finest content management systems, including WordPress and Joomla. We can provide maintenance for any online system, such as an online training platform like Moodle or forum software such as phpBB.

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We can also provide

  • Domain registration, management and hosting services
  • Content management systems
  • Bespoke web programs
  • E-commerce websites
  • Custom online database management
  • Full server management

Planning a new site or rescuing an old one?

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Data Mining

Thanks to our workforce’s skills and neurodiversity, we are specialists in pattern recognition.

Data mining, also known as Knowledge Discovery in Databases (KDD), is the process of discovering patterns in large data sets and data warehouses.

Various techniques such as regression analysis, association, clustering, classification and outlier analysis are applied to data to identify useful outcomes. These techniques use software and backend algorithms that analyse the data and show patterns.

The data mining process starts by feeding data into tools that use statistics and algorithms to produce reports and patterns. The results can be visualised, understood and applied to drive business changes and improvements.

Data mining is widely used by organisations building a marketing strategy, by hospitals for diagnostic tools, by e-commerce for cross-selling products and in many other ways.

Sitting on data you’re not using?

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Consultancy

Consulting

Techead partners with customers to work through the complexities of cloud, virtualisation, storage, security and workspace.

IT strategy

We work with organisations to accelerate growth, reduce cost and improve efficiency through emerging technology. Our recommendations are highly customised and lead to practical actions: there is no single off-the-shelf solution that meets every requirement.

Technology selection

Our solution selection service replaces the old vendor selection approach.

Infrastructure transformation & workload migration

Application and workload migration services that move enterprise computer-based services to public and private cloud providers.

Project delivery

Your IT initiatives add value on the journey to meeting your strategic objectives. Techead’s project management practice helps IT organisations reliably drive strategic technology initiatives from initiation to completion.

Weighing up a big IT decision?

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IT refurbishment

Feeling the crunch? Computers getting slow?

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We will give your current IT suite a full refurbishment. During the process each computer system is thoroughly tested and cleaned to a very high standard, and can be upgraded to suit your requirements.

We prefer Open Source powered systems such as Linux Mint, enabling you to cut maintenance costs and save on software licensing fees.

Get more years out of the kit you already own.

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Products

We build a few products where our expertise can shine.

Firewalls

A solid hardware solution with filtering that can block unwanted domains, URLs and files.

Servers

A reliable server for your company, whatever you need: email server, file server or a cost-effective all-in-one. We provide the right hardware and software.

Workstations

Need machines that are cost-effective, reliable and cheap to run? Contact us for more details.

Not sure what you need?

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Social Media

We deliver and implement a wide range of social media services for our clients, so if you don’t know your tweets from your RT@ then we are your team.

We start with a Social Media Audit to examine your current accounts, any information outlets and how your organisation interacts with the community. At any point we can help with set-up, content creation, management, design and training.

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If you need help with social media, get in touch.

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Emailjohn@techead.co.uk
CoveringEdinburgh, Glasgow & West Lothian

Tell us what you need

Drop us an email with a few lines about your setup and we’ll get back to you.

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