Hot Topics

Microsoft’s solutions are incredibly dynamic and it can be hard to keep up with new features. To help you understand these new capabilities, we are offering a number of free consultancy-led sessions.

Delivered over Microsoft Teams, each session lasts for between 45 and 60 mins and you are welcome to bring any number of people from your company into the Hot Topics workshop.

Find out what’s new by booking your session below

Keeping you abreast of the latest technologies, solutions and thinking

Consultancy

We pride ourselves on being easy to work with, approachable and knowledgeable. Listening and understanding is how we begin any consultancy relationship.

Collaboration and Teamwork

Chess work as One Team to support thousands of customers across the UK. We know how to get the most from digital tools and services that allow people to work together more effectively.

Business Intelligence

Transforming data into actionable, meaningful insights is something we have been doing for customers and partners since the 90’s.

Web Development

Our web development team benefits from being part of an established organisation that has experience and knowledge across a range of technology services.

Software Development

The same team that creates software solutions for some of our oldest clients also builds the technology that supports many of our internal processes and systems.

Cloud Hosting and  Managed IT Services

Clients such as the NHS work with us to design, deploy and maintain Azure hosting solutions which can scale to support data focused digital health and care services.

Protecting your organisation's email reputation with DMARC

Even though we’ve been using email for over 30 years, there are still numerous risks for companies and organisations in terms of unauthorised use and reputational harm. DMARC is the answer.

Managing your Exchange environment in 2024

With Microsoft Exchange Server now 30 years old but still in widespread use, what are the considerations for maintaining it in 2024?

Is Your Organisation Ready for Take Off with Copilot for Microsoft 365?

Microsoft 365 Copilot will give your employees the power of AI and all the productivity gains that come with it. But what does it mean for your organisation and how do you make best use of it?

How does Microsoft Fabric cover your data analytics requirements?

Fabric is Microsoft’s new data analytics platform, which integrates a number of a tools into a unitary experience. But what’s included and what can it do for your organisation?

Take control of your devices

Deploying, managing and maintaining your devices is easy with Microsoft tools

Security

Can Microsoft services save you money whilst improving security?

Protecting the integrity of your data in Microsoft 365

In the event of loss or corruption of your Microsoft 365 data, you'll want to recover it quickly. Additionally, you may wish to consider how to manage your storage requirements in your SharePoint Online environment. In this free overview session, we will help you understand the new Backup and Archive options that Microsoft will be introducing into Microsoft 365 in the near future.

Managing the data lifecycle

Understanding and managing the data lifecycle can be important for many reasons, including meeting regulatory compliance requirements, removing outdated content, and reducing storage costs. This free overview session will help you understand the importance of data lifecycle management and show you how Microsoft 365 can help your organisation to manage its data.

Securing your data in Microsoft 365

The collaboration opportunities in Microsoft 365 offer many benefits in terms of efficiency, accuracy, time optimisation and so on but how do you ensure that your organisation's data stays safe? Our free overview session will help you understand the information protection options available in Microsoft 365 and see how they could help your organisation better protect its data.

Modern management with cloud-first solutions

As a leader in modern management capabilities, Microsoft produces many tools and solutions that can be deployed to provide effective management of your environment without the legacy constraints of on-premises solutions. But what are these solutions, and how can they help you to improve how you manage your organisation, infrastructure, devices, applications and users? Find out with a free, personalised overview session with one of our consultants.

Modern management with cloud-first solutions

It’s been great working with Chess to develop the platform we have now and to continue to develop it to where we want it to go. Having Chess’ expertise included in our plans really supports us to build the best product that we can.

Fay Spencer, Digital Lead, Just One Norfolk

See full case study

Our Expertise

Sharepoint

Since Microsoft launched SharePoint in 2001, we’ve helped many organisations customise and optimise their configurations.

Azure

At Microsoft Inspire 2019, we recognised Azure’s potential to evolve to support machine learning and AI in cloud computing.

Umbraco

We've built lots of websites using Umbraco, and like that it can be customised, prioritises security and is flexible enough to support more complex projects.

.NET Development

Our values of knowledge and expertise are particularly true of the software team, who work magic with C#, the primary programming language for .NET.

Microsoft 365

Almost 4 million businesses worldwide use Microsoft 365, but most aren’t maximizing its potential. We help companies get more from tools like Outlook, OneDrive, and Teams.

Microsoft Teams

We know Microsoft Teams really well. We can help you roll it out effectively, maximise its benefits, and make the most of other Microsoft 365 tools across your organisation.

Get in touch

We pride ourselves on being approachable and easy to work with.

If you would like to discuss any aspect of Digital Transformation and where you might need support or advice, let us know and we’ll do our best to help.

Name *

Email *

Company *

Telephone

Tell us how we can help you *