Oxfordshire Accountants rely on the Cloud for Protection of Client Financial Data

Bronsens has been a reassuring presence in Oxfordshire for more than 100 years.

Founded in 1891, Bronsens grew quickly to become an established major accounting practice under the name of William Bayliss & Co. in Oxford.

Following various practice changes and mergers over the century, the business became Bronsens in 1992.

Having established the trusted Bronsens brand the business then acquired offices in Chipping Norton, Witney and formed a company to provide payroll and bookkeeping services.

Key Solution Highlights & Benefits

• Traditional IT set-up wasn’t efficient in handling Bronsens daily workload – CIS Increased productivity through migrating Bronsens data and servers to the CIS Private Cloud (vBubble), installing better communication links to increase the overall communication speed between the offices.
• Remote issues caused problems while accessing important data – CIS Improved this by allowing Bronsens to work from one data set across all sites (Witney and Chipping Norton) for flexible and concise working in the Private Cloud.
• No way to access specialist IRIS accountancy software remotely – CIS Improved flexibility by running Bronsens IRIS Accountancy Suite in the CIS Private Cloud. This allowed Bronsens to utilise the software on the move without having to come back to the office every day, accessing that system from any device, on any internet connection, from any location, complete working flexibility.

The Challenge

Bronsens needed secure, dependable access to shared systems across its Oxfordshire offices.

The company encourages multi-site interoffice collaboration between staff working on projects, making stable, dependable links between employees in different locations absolutely crucial.

The practice needed staff to access accountancy software and client data securely, whether working in the office or remotely.

The Solution

CIS delivered a unified secure Private Cloud Solution for all of Bronsens offices, helping with accessing important data in a highly secure environment from any location on any device.

Bronsens stores sensitive financial data for its clients. CIS implemented regular backups of the Bronsens cloud servers, supported by a regular testing plan.

CIS minimised the risk of an IT disaster for Bronsens and their clients by removing all data from the old physical server and hosting everything in the Cloud – located at an Ultra-Secure Nuclear Datacentre.

CIS created a Cloud environment so that Bronsens could access and utilise not only their important IRIS Accountancy software but also their document management systems ‘Virtual Cabinet’ and the full range of Microsoft office remotely, increasing productivity in the office while reducing Bronsens need to travel to work. This Private Cloud solution delivered a flexible ‘working hours’ policy, allowing access from home to all of the systems for Bronsens, whilst maintaining the highest levels of security.