Nova - I.T.

Clients

Here are some of our larger clients, grouped according to the type of services that we have provided for them.

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Clients who have used our training services

company logoThe Heritable Bank, London

Microsoft Office and Dragon NaturallySpeaking Training

Provided training and consultancy for Microsoft Office and Dragon NaturallySpeaking

"Heritable Bank have employed Nova – I.T. for a number of years based on their high personal regard for Nova Crawford whom they have found to be efficient, professional in her approach and well liked by those she has been responsible for training."

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company logoThe NHS

Microsoft Office Training

Providing on-going Microsoft Office training for staff at Hammersmith and Charing Cross Hospitals.

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company logoDanish Re, London

Microsoft Office Training

Customised Microsoft Office on-site training.

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company logoNewman Martin and Buchan.
Insurance/Reinsurance Brokers, London

Microsoft Office and In-House System Training

Continual weekly training modules, conducted at NMB's City offices. Four 1.5 hour bespoke modules are conducted each week for all staff members; subjects include Microsoft Excel Functions Crash Course, Microsoft Word SuperTips.

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company logoThe Metropolitan Police Service

Microsoft Office Training and Bespoke Database Training

Continual training programmes and database development. We provide standard courses, plus on-site, bespoke 1.5 hour modules that have been customised to meet the exact requirements of the users.

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company logoBBC

Provided Microsoft Office and Dragon NaturallySpeaking throughout the BBC in London. Nova – I.T. was involved in developing and providing “Email Netiquette” training sessions for BBC staff. This session was part of Greg Dyke’s “ONE BBC - MAKING IT HAPPEN” strategy.

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company logoCardales Chartered Surveyors

Microsoft Office and Dragon NaturallySpeaking Training

Continual on-site training and support for Microsoft Office and Dragon NaturallySpeaking.

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company logoClear

Microsoft Office Training

Customised training on an in-house contacts database developed by Nova – I.T., plus bespoke Microsoft PowerPoint training.

company logoHunter Peddell Property Law

Network Installation, Support and Training

Hunter Peddell Property Law was set up by two City Lawyers in 2004. They employed Nova – I.T. to devise a training programme for the Partners prior to the company launch date, so that their IT skills were up to scratch, and in doing so, they did not require a secretary for several months thereafter.

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Clients who have used our Microsoft Office and
Dragon NaturallySpeaking services

company logoBBC

Provided 1:1 Dragon NaturallySpeaking for users with disabilities within the BBC in London.

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company logoBritish Telecom, London

Provided 1:1 Dragon NaturallySpeaking training and support for a secretary suffering with RSI.

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company logoThe Environment Agency, Nationwide

Provided 1:1 and group Dragon NaturallySpeaking training in Bristol, Exeter, Leeds and Warrington.

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Clients who have used our Development services

imageBBC Worldwide

Program Development

Developed a bespoke application to check BBC scripts’ vocabularies to ensure they contained words that fell into the top 5000 words in the Oxford English Dictionary, before publishing on bbcworldwide.com. This process used to take days to manually complete and now takes minutes for each script’s vocabulary to be checked.

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company logoClear, London

Microsoft Office Training and Development

Clear wanted a sophisticated Contacts Database from which they could filter and select contacts for frequent e-shots and marketing activities. Nova – I.T. used Clear’s existing in-house products to develop a customised Contacts Database in Microsoft Outlook. The database included customised forms and views so that all bespoke requirements were met. This solution has proved a popular and economic alternative to creating a database from scratch, as well as using an environment (Outlook) that users are already familiar with, therefore reducing the cost of training.

Clear also use Nova – I.T. for bespoke training, e.g. customised Microsoft PowerPoint.

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company logoCardales Chartered Surveyors, London

Microsoft Office Training, Template Development, Visual Basic and Database Development and Training, Dragon NaturallySpeaking Training

Continual support, training and consultancy for Microsoft Office and Dragon NaturallySpeaking, plus the development of bespoke document templates, e.g. automated system to create a Party Wall report in half an hour; a process that used to take days. Developed a Property Database that catalogues properties and calculates valuations and rental income.

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company logoHunter Peddell Property Law, Surrey

Network Installation, Support and Training

Hunter Peddell Property Law was set up by two City Lawyers in 2004. They employed Nova – I.T. to install and setup a new I.T. network. We installed Microsoft Windows Small Business Server 2003 on Dell hardware, and created customised templates ready for HPPL’s launch date in August 2004. We also devised a training programme for the Partners prior to the company launch date, so that their IT skills were up to scratch, and in doing so, they did not require a secretary for several months thereafter.

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company logoThe Metropolitan Police Service

Microsoft Office Training, Template Development, Visual Basic and Database Development and Training

Continual training programmes and database development.
Developed a Client Management System using the existing investment of Microsoft Access, with Visual Basic. Staff are now able to:

  • save/find documents quickly
  • look up client and contact history information
  • generate cheque requests against client references
  • look up their staff’s holiday and sick
  • access previously large paper based manuals in the form of online documentation

How does our department measure success with their IT products?

"When you create shortcuts, programs and databases that enable your staff to complete tasks in half the time, when the most disinterested user comes up with new ideas because they like using the new systems, when other departments rave about your systems & want to copy them when you have someone that you can rely on to sort out your problems & make your desired visions for IT come true.

When all this is happening, you know you have made the right choice using Nova - I.T."

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company logoT U Fund Managers

Database Development

Redeveloped an old, existing Microsoft Access database, that had migrated though many versions of Microsoft Office and had subsequently picked up a few gremlins along the way. Nova – I.T. took the existing data and totally redeveloped the front end, adding lots of new features that were not available during the original development 6 years prior. The new Microsoft Access 2003 database acts as a Contacts Database that links up with Microsoft Word in order to created automated mail merges to selected contacts in a matter of minutes.

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