Integration Services

Local Area Networks (LAN)

Local Area Networks (LANs) are the core of file and print sharing within an office environment. A LAN will allow you to have central storage and secure access to your data files. Any user with appropriate security permissions can have access to any files they need when the data is stored on a central file server. Printer resources can be shared among users in a work group or for the entire office. This reduces your equipment costs as fewer printers are required to service your staff.

A nightly data backup can run automatically to ensure that all of your valuable data is archived to tape in the event of a catastrophe or data loss on the server.

Electronic mail running on the LAN can eliminate those "While You Where Out" pads and reduce the use of Post-It notes that seem to get lost like socks in a dryer. See phone messages appear on screen instantly, even while you are on the phone. No more trips to the reception desk to look for messages! With internet service connected to your LAN, electronic mail can reach beyond your office to anyone on the internet.

Do you have information libaries on CD-ROM that you would like to share? With the CD-ROM connected to the network, all users can have access to the library -- at the same time!

Wide Area Networks (WAN)

You have your LAN running and your staff can share documents and printers in your office. Wouldn't it be nice to be able to share files and elecronic mail with your other offices?

A Wide Area Network (WAN) allows you to connect LANs at each office together into a larger network. As far as your staff is concerned it is all one network. E-mail, documents, and databases can reside anywhere on the network and appear as if they are right there in your office. As an added bonus, any changes that you make to a document or database are immediately accessible to your staff in the other offices.

The internet is really a very big public WAN. You can use the internet for building the interoffice links of your private WAN, but for added security and higher reliability NIS can install private circuits that connect only your offices together.

Internet Connections

NIS has relationships with major internet service providers to put your business on the internet.

You can have a direct link to the internet to allow your staff to have immediate e-mail access and web browsing without having to give each user a modem and phone line.

Firewalls and proxy servers can be installed by NIS to protect your network from outside intrusion and increase web browsing performance.

Web site design and authoring from NIS can put your company on the internet for marketing, sales, customer service and investor relations. Using the internet web pages you can reduce the number of calls for information that come into your company. In addition your company will be providing information 24 hours a day, 7 days a week with no additional staffing. Just think of the cost savings!