Devices

Empowering the Digital Revolution

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Why Chess Devices?

Gartner predict that by 2020, 30% of business devices will be purchased through an opex finance model. The rise of the digital workplace is forcing a renewed interest in modernising business devices that are thinner, lighter, more secure and with new levels of performance and connectivity.

If It Appreciates, Buy It — If It Depreciates, Lease It

J Paul Getty’s famous advice is as compelling for laptops and mobiles as is it for cars and photocopiers. A rapidly evolving digital workplace is placing unprecedented demands on IT infrastructure, and it’s the agility of a flexible, leasing model which is overcoming the challenges and barriers faced when procuring IT equipment.

Why Lease?

There are growing reasons to adopt a leasing model. With the option to refresh, return or retain devices at the end of the lease, it’s rapidly becoming the purchasing model of choice. Sourcing the right technology today, at the lowest price, ensures you and your people remain adaptable and agile for the changes coming tomorrow.

Buy or Lease?

A Guide on Updating Your Device Refresh Strategy

Factors to consider when embarking on a hardware refresh programme.

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Industry Leading Mobiles, Tablets and Laptops

The traditional trade-off between cost and functionality is no longer the key factor in procuring business critical equipment for your people. Leasing makes it easier to provide the tech your business needs for the next two years, rather than the equipment dictated by your budget at a single point in time.

Choose Your Device

Phones: Choose from the best selling devices, including the iPhone XR, iPhone XS, iPhone XS Max and Galaxy S10 ranges.

Tablets: Combining portability and functionality, the new generation of tablets available run Windows 10 and are successfully challenging the popularity of more traditional laptops.

Laptops: Take advantage of HP’s monthly promotions, or opt for one of Microsoft’s popular Surface devices. Care Packs, offering extended service agreements, are available to help protect business continuity, and selected peripherals are also included in the range of lease items.

3 yrs

Average lifespan of a business laptop

40%

Use a mobile device for work

42%

Workload decreased through cloud

How It Works — Refresh, Retain, Return

Refresh

After two years you’ll be able to upgrade to a new device. There’s no renewal fee, no end of lease fee, and you’ll have a choice of the latest models and devices. Your original device will be erased securely (see below).

Want to upgrade before the lease is up? No problem, simply give us a call. Termination fees may apply, and these can be rolled into your next lease agreement.)

Retain

At the end of the lease term, you may want to opt to keep your device, at a fair market value.

Return

You’ll be contacted in good time, to ensure any data is securely migrated off the existing device. Your device will then be securely erased in accordance with WEEE regulations, and a certificate issued. There’s no end of lease fee to pay.

Terms & Conditions Apply.

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Start Your Digital Revolution

Download our guide to find out how you can get the tech you need at a price you can afford.

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Core Benefits

Financial Freedom

Do more with less
Planned, regular monthly fee
No upfront costs, or major capital outlay; removing capex liability — pay out of monthly cashflow and leave your reserves untouched

Device and Network Freedom

Choose from a range of popular devices
Upgrade effortlessly after 24 (36 month lease agreements also available)
Option to upgrade after just six months (fees apply)

Great Price and Excellent Delivery Times.

"We have worked with Chess for a few years now, from the first instance of helping us change from our very old phone system to the new IP system we have now, the engineers from Chess were very experienced and help full throughout the installation. We have also just started to upgrade to new Windows 10 laptops which have been sourced from and delivered by Chess, great price and excellent delivery times"

Mark Edmands, Network And Infrastructure Analyst

Unipart Powertrain Application

Resources

Devices Knowledge

Securing Remote Workers

Watch the recording of Security Remote Workers webinar. During the online session, our Chief Information Security Officer and a Sophos Product Specialist discuss the best practices to secure remote working in the current situation.

Calls to 101 are Free of Charge from 1 April 2020

To alleviate pressure on 999 services all calls to 101 will be Free of Charge from 1 April 2020 - This initiative is to enable callers to contact police for non-emergency calls.

Home Working - Can You Collaborate?

So hopefully by now, you've got your people working from home and are servicing your customers' needs, you've got access to your main systems and are coping well. It's clear that working at a distance from everyone creates some new challenges and this article is intended to run through some things to consider.

#3 Connectivity and Support at Home

Working from home is now an everyday reality for many of our customers and network issues can be a challenge

As schools have now closed and other businesses have also sent people home, many home workers are struggling with ensuring they can run their real-time work apps such as Voice and Video conferencing without interference from other people, who are also working from home or using other online content

A Hackers Guide to Remote Working

Remote working for a hacker is brilliant, and not in the sense that they can work from home in a dark room wearing a hoodie. But because remote working means that a business is intentionally giving a path into the internal network that could potentially be accessed by anyone on the internet. This blog post covers some of the things that we have encountered across the team over the years.

Chess Divert

Being able to manage business calls from anywhere, either on a temporary or permanent basis, is an essential aspect of business continuity.

Temporarily diverting your calls from your current premises to a new inbound number allows you to manage incoming calls and maintain workflow.

#2 Your Cyber Security

If you are allowing devices to connect from people’s houses – it's possible that these networks have already been compromised by hackers or will be in the future. Implementing two-factor authentication, where another device like a mobile phone is used for extra security is the most important security measure that can be applied to systems.

#1 Your Telephony

As the Covid-19 situation looks set to escalate, there's a lot to think about to keep your business running. Last week we shared the Top 10 areas we've focused on to ensure our own business continuity.

From today, we'll be going into these in more detail, setting out what we've learnt and offering specific guidance and support. Let's start with telephony.

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Coronavirus Service Update - Keep Your Business Running

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Injector 1.0

About six months ago, with the slow death rattles of the exquisite Empire C2 drawing near, not going to lie I'm still in mourning – that and python2, I was on the hunt for a new platform to sink my teeth into. While playing around with various frameworks on offer such as SilentTrinity, Faction, Merlin (all of which have their positives), I started looking at Cobbr's Covenant framework....

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Coronavirus Service Message - Keeping Our Business Running

Many businesses are rightly concerned about the potential impact of the developing situation with coronavirus and how it may impact their business.

SIP Trunking with Chess Partner

Chess Partner are pleased to offer a new SIP Trunking solution to our Partners that will allow you to offer the best Call Management solutions for your customers.