Information Technology
Software Development
Our IT Department includes an internal team of developers who manages in-house written systems in accordance with the
demands of our Customers (the Group’s subsidiaries)
and their Customers.
Recent software developments that the team has managed include a bespoke system which takes a customer order and
manages its entire life cycle and the legacy system which was
built using a foundation of Visual FoxPro and covers all
aspects of the business from procurement, manufacturing, stock control, despatch, EDI and accounts.
The developers are currently working on .NET in order that we can overhaul our entire system and take advantage of cutting
edge technologies including the Internet of Things
to deploy business intelligence and feature rich solutions. This will help
keep the Group ahead of its competitors and will supply Employees and Customers with meaningful data
to assist key
business decisions.

Managed Services
The SLG Technology IT team has dedicated staff to assist in the diagnosis of all hardware issues and repair any system
deployed or alternatively be at the front line when a
third party is required. We have partnered with BT and Cisco to deploy
our VOIP (Voice over Internet Protocol) communications solution across the group and with our BYOD
(Bring Your Own
Device) policy, our users can have their personal devices supported however still have strict controls on how they interact
with our network.

Infrastructure
As part of the Group’s plan to reduce our carbon footprint and hardware power usage, we adopted Virtualisation.
Using VMWare, we have successfully virtualised all of our primary server across the Group’s subsidiaries. We are now
looking to deploy the same technology for all desktops
which will allow our end users to access their desktop anywhere in the world giving them a truly flexible solution.
Using Cisco equipment and technology, we have networked the whole Group using public and private VPNs to make sure
that all of our users can access their data at any time in
any place. The IT Department is also responsible for the secure
backup of the Group’s data, the security of our network infrastructure and deployed devices.