What Is Your Experience?

What is your experience?

We have extensive experience with the following products and solutions. This is just a small sampling of the more popular environments.

Cisco routers and switches.

Windows 2000 and Windows NT 4 Server platforms (Microsoft Certified Systems Engineer on staff).

Windows 95/98/Millenium Edition/XP.

Linux/Unix.

Watchguard firewalls.

Sonicwall firewalls.

SQL database systems.

Satisfied Customers

This is a small sampling of our current customers.

Havens Steel Corporation

Platte County, Missouri

The Central States Synod of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America

Lutz, Daily and Brain Consulting Engineers

Hardware, Software and Equipment

Our policy is typically not to sell computer hardware, software, or equipment to customers except in an emergency situation. Since this is not our specialty, it is difficult to be cost-competitive. We also prefer to stay objective and make recommendations purely on the basis of what is best for our customer. We can refer you to several excellent local vendors to purchase hardware and software we recommend.

Our Partners

We’ve partnered with several outstanding vendors who can provide services that are outside our scope, including:

Security Systems, Network, Telephone, and Fiber Optic Cabling

Wireless Inter-Site Communication

Telephone Systems Deployment

Web Development and Hosting

Computer Hardware, Software, and Equipment Sales and Service

Rates and Terms

Our standard rates are $90.00/hour. Unlike some companies, we do not bill point-to-point except in emergencies requiring instant response or locations outside the Kansas City area. Overtime at time-and-a-half may be billed for work performed outside normal business hours at the customer’s request or based on the customer’s needs.

How can I contact you?

You can reach us in any of the following ways:

Telephone816-935-5256

Web page

MailEnter-Networks.Net

5110 NE 47th Terrace

Kansas City, MO 64117

Enter-Networks.Net

Your Enterprise Networking Solution

Why do I need network engineering?

Computer networks have grown far more complex in recent years. Once, they were simply a way to simply share files and printers; today, the network as a whole needs to function together to provide services to users and to the business.

All the industry trade magazines talk about how big businesses use expensive solutions to achieve phenomenal results. While it can be interesting, it’s not relevant to what a small business needs or wants.

That’s where we come in. Enter-Networks.Net has a proven track record of helping small businesses and organizations achieve their information technology goals on a budget they can afford. It’s not necessary to have deep pockets to have a reliable, stable, and secure computer network. All you need is the following:

A commitment to doing what it takes to keep your systems up to date and functional.

Expertise and knowledgeable advice to get all the systems configured for optimum performance.

The willingness to make the necessary changes to get a more stable, more secure, more reliable system.

Why all the focus on networking?

The network is the total view of the system in today’s organization. Everything from Internet access to printing to data storage relies on it. When we say ‘network’, we mean the totality of your computer system, from workstations, to servers, to printers, to Internet connectivity.

Computer networking is considered by many technicians to be the hardest specialty within the field of computer engineering. The way different systems interconnect and depend on one another can make it difficult to notice or locate problems. That’s why we have spent years specializing in this field. It’s the area most often overlooked by many technicians, and one where we know we can most often make a dramatic difference.

In many cases, networking problems can lie dormant, manifesting occasionally as glitches or ‘hiccups’ in the system. Later, when the system is expanded, these issues can manifest and cause havoc. Some issues, such as security vulnerabilities or inadequate backups or virus protection, don’t manifest at all until disaster strikes, at which point the damage is done. Our goal is to reach companies before this happens, and take steps to make sure they are protected.

Anybody can ‘fix your computers’ if they break. What we bring is the expertise to make them run the best they can, and to make the whole system operate at maximum efficiency. That’s how you experience the maximum benefit for your computing dollar.

Can I afford this?

We don’t analyze your network from a purely technical perspective. Business factors form an important part of any recommendations we make. We provide options based on cost, and prioritize based on maximum benefit for minimum outlay.

In economics, there’s a concept called the ‘Diminishing Returns Curve’. It states that as you spend more and more money, the amount of improvement you see in what you get becomes less and less. Most people can’t even hear the difference between a decent-quality violin and a Stradivarius, but a truly great professional violinist is willing to pay a huge amount of extra money for this small improvement in tone.

However, the diminishing returns curve works the both ways. It means that you can spend a fraction of the cost, in many cases, and get something that, while not quite as good, will still perform the job admirably. We look for these situations, and advise you of them.

As a small business ourselves, we understand that large expenditures can be difficult. That’s why we recommend solutions that can be implemented on a small organization’s budget. Often, you can get most of the benefits of more expensive systems at a much lower cost. We’ll show you how to accomplish that, and more.

Why should I outsource?

Outsourcing makes sense for companies when the following conditions are met:

The need is short-term or intermittent. There’s no need to hire somebody if you only need something once every week or two, or for a single project. You’d be paying them to do nothing for the rest of the time.

The cost of in-house expertise is too high. Having a certified network engineer on staff at your organization is always nice, but may be far too costly unless your organization is relatively large. Generally, companies under 20 people cannot cost-justify a full-time computer technician.

Management does not have the expertise or resources to facilitate or manage the project internally.

If your organization has existing Information Technology staff, whether full-time or part-time, our goal is not to in any way replace them. Instead, we want to act as a resource, to be available when needed to assist with heavy workloads or difficult problems.

Our goal is to be a partner and a resource to help with the long-term stability of your systems. We want to assist with upgrades, make sure things go smoothly, and train your people to perform routine daily tasks. We want you to be happy enough to form an ongoing relationship, not a one-shot sale.