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Company Overview

The Web and I is a premium I.T. Services company serving the New York City Metropolitan Area and Long Island since 2007.  Our I.T. experience, however, dates back to the 1970’s, logging in to ARPANET with a 2 baud handset modem which would cradle the telephone’s handset. The telephone was, of course, nothing like telephones today.

Since then, we have gained experience working for various universities including NYU School of Medicine, Columbia University, as well as business computing experience in insurance, healthcare provider, law firms, mortgage firms, and real estate firms and Publishing with Thomson Reuters.

Background on the Web and I and Computer Support for Organizations Large and Small

With experience in computer support, applications management, and preventative maintenance and business network management, we are always looking for ways to better our response time and ways to support our client’s P.C.’s. Some of the challenges in providing effective and affordable service are:

  • Cost of travel requires additional expenses for our clients.
  •  Time of travel requires additional cost to clients.
  •  Technicians have no advance knowledge of what to bring or what will be encountered, possibly requiring extra visits and extra expenses

Expertise

The Web and I has been an early adopter of Microsoft Cloud Services, our senior systems engineer was one of the first users of Microsoft Office Live in New York, and he still maintains the original site on Office Live. It will soon be transitioning to Microsoft Office 365.

The Web and I are registered Microsoft Windows Intune partners.  We keep up with all Microsoft requirements and news so you don’t have to.  We are very enthusiastic Microsoft partners, and we help them with their testing and with our input into potential improvements in any way we can. Our mission reflects theirs: to provide the best computing experience with the greatest functionality and the most uptime.

Martin Low, our Senior Systems Engineer, served as the Systems Administrator on the team implementing InfoEd at Columbia University, linking together thousands of faculty and staff to a centralized grants management system with direct EDI data transmission to Grants.gov, the centralized portal for grants from the U.S. Government. This system had highly functional inbound and outbound interfaces to systems such as space management, library bibliographic services, all faculty, and finance and accounting systems. The process of implementation required a full set of ERP studies to determine a new plan for all of the University Systems to work together, avoiding duplication of effort. Many brilliant new decision-making metrics resulted including the ability to calculate grant dollars per square foot of research space allocated to faculty, number of classes taught and publications per year related per square foot allocated to faculty, live tools to analyze and optimize grant and project budgets utilizing drift analysis, and efficient workflows for clerical staff.  Mr. Low and his division was also responsible for the upkeep, deployment, software installation and licensing, network security, and computer repair for fifty users including PC’s laptops, Macintosh, Linux, Unix, blackberry services, Treo services,  Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, Oracle, and Microsoft SQL Server.  Mr. Low was instrumental in assisting in the data mapping and design of all applications to ERP systems.

During that time, we had to respond to computer users in person, even using car service to get around the Manhattan Campus to service different computers. Travel time was an added expense and delay, and we never knew what to expect until we got there, which increased the amount of time it took to solve problems.

The Solution: Windows Intune

With Windows Intune, we can remotely:

  • Scan your computers for viruses.
  • Defragment hard drives.
  • Remove spyware.
  • Deny employee access to websites.
  • Install Microsoft Windows or Office: you will have the latest licensing from Microsoft.
  • Instant Microsoft Licensing compliance: you will be prepared for Microsoft to audit many U.S. small businesses in 2012 for software license compliance.

How Windows Intune through the Web and I is Better

With Windows Intune from the Web and I, you benefit not just from a product and licensing, but also from our collective expertise and presence. Our clients will tell you: We are there when you need us!

CRN Technology News Announces New Windows Phone with Office 365

The new Windows phone with Office 365, sporting the code name “Mango”, will be released later this year. What is important about this is that Office 365 will be a ubiquitous cloud computing resource that many small and medium-sized businesses will rely on to manage their enterprise collaboration. These phones will have built-in video teleconferencing with Lync Server. Using Lync and SharePoint, multiple users will be able to collaborate on a Microsoft Office document even if some or all of the users are mobile.

Office 365 promises the highest levels of up-time possible, with outages of less than 8 minutes per year, offices can have a service more reliable and available. Losses in productivity from computers being down will be eliminated, and small and medium-sized businesses can have services that were only available to the largest and most wealthy corporations.

Many people who come to this blog reading about cloud computing ask me why I would assume that, with all of the cloud service providers available, that Microsoft Cloud Services will become the de-facto business standard. The fact is we live in a world resistant to change, and people are used to Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Office, and all things Microsoft.  Even free operating systems which were open-source and offered great security and reliability like Linux and Unix were rejected by all clients that I tried to present it to. Besides a few die-hard Mac fans, most people insist on Microsoft. And all of those Mac fans utilize Microsoft Office. Mac fans can be rest-assured that there is Mac support for Office 365.

This is the original article mentioning the new Windows phone with Office 365:

http://www.crn.com/news/cloud/229500702/microsoft-integration-work-paves-way-for-office-365-blitz.htm?itc=refresh

Website Design Town of Hempstead

Website Design And Applications Hosted By Microsoft For the Town of Hempstead

The Web and I, Inc. is one of a select few innovators of Microsoft Office Live Small Business. Microsoft Office Live Small Business is the latest in cloud computing. You get quality website hosting, sophisticated business applications, ERP integration, internal social networking, and online reputation management with an extraordinarily robust solution. The future of the Web is here. Get online, get customers, and take your business to the next level! We are also ready to lead you to Office 365, when that is live in 2012.

More than just a Website Host,Microsoft Office Live includes the following key purposes:

  • Contact Management
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Time and Schedule Management
  • Sales Management
  • Document Collaboration and Archiving
  • E-Mail Marketing Tools
  • Online Reputation Management Tools
  • Social Networking Tools
  • Custom Software Applications
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO Tools)

…And more. You just need the Best consultants who can help you pull it off. Solutions that are properly put into practice can be successfully maintained by internet and computer nouveaux without the expense of full-time IT staff. Run your business with the efficaciousness secrets enjoyed by Fortune 500 companies.

Website Design is the applied science of the Web and I. Bringing big business savvy to small businesses in the New York City / Metropolitan Area and Hempstead, Long Island is our goal. We want every small Organization to take advantage of the splendor offered to larger businesses as a matter of course. We have partnered up with Microsoft Corporation, of Redmond Washington because we believe they offer the best small business hosting. Their sites are up with great reliability, and the system is always being improved. Best of all, hosting is free until 2012 (when they launch Office 365, then it will be $6 per month)The Web and I can create your site from simple sites, to marketing sites, to E-Commerce, and sites with forms on them for collecting customer data. If your business needs are more complex, we can create customer intranets so that you can invoice your customers and present them with special offers and services. The Web and I is trusted by small businesses for marketing as well. Our search engine optimization and social networking can put your site ahead of the competition, with a number one ranking on Google.com.

Clients in Hempstead:

Website Design Glen Cove

Website Design And Applications Hosted By Microsoft For the City of Glen Cove

The Web and I, Inc. is one of a select few technicians of Microsoft Office Live Small Business. Microsoft Office Live Small Business is the latest in cloud computing. You get quality website hosting, sophisticated business applications, ERP integration, internal social networking, and online reputation management with an extraordinarily robust solution. The future of the Web is here. Get online, get customers, and take your business to the next level! We are also ready to lead you to Office 365, when that is live in 2012.

More than just a Website Host, Microsoft Office Live / Office 365 includes the following key Capabilities:

  • Contact Management
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Time and Schedule Management
  • Sales Management
  • Document Collaboration and Archiving
  • E-Mail Marketing Tools
  • Online Reputation Management Tools
  • Social Networking Tools
  • Custom Software Applications
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO Tools)

…and more. You just need the most desirable consultants who can help you pull it off. Solutions that are properly put to practice can be successfully managed by internet and computer beginners without the expense of full-time IT office workers. Run your business with the virtuosity secrets enjoyed by Fortune 500 companies.

Website Design is the science of the Web and I. Bringing big business savvy to small businesses in the New York City / Metropolitan Area and the City of Glen Cove Long Island is our goal. We want every small venture to take advantage of the miracles offered to larger businesses as a matter of course. We have partnered up with Microsoft Corporation, of Redmond Washington because we believe they offer the best small business hosting. Their sites are up with great reliability, and the method is always being improved. Best of all, hosting is free until 2012 (when they launch Office 365, then it will be $6 per month)The Web and I can create your site from simple sites, to marketing sites, to E-Commerce, and sites with forms on them for collecting customer

data. If your business needs are more complex, we can create customer intranets so that you can invoice your customers and present them with special offers and services. The Web and I is trusted by small businesses for marketing as well. Our search engine optimization and social networking can put your site ahead of the competition, with a number one ranking on Google.com.

Website Design Nassau County, New York

Website Design Nassau County Businesses Featuring Applications Hosted By Microsoft

The Web and I, Inc. is one of a select few web developers of Microsoft Office Live Small Business. Microsoft Office Live Small Business is the latest in cloud computing. You get quality website hosting, sophisticated business applications, ERP integration, internal social networking, and online reputation management with an extraordinarily robust solution. The future of the Web is here. Get online, get customers, and take your business to the next level! We are also ready to lead you to Office 365, when that is live in 2012.

More than just a Website Host,Microsoft Office Live includes the following key roles:

  • Contact Management
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Time and Schedule Management
  • Sales Management
  • Document Collaboration and Archiving
  • E-Mail Marketing Tools
  • Online Reputation Management Tools
  • Social Networking Tools
  • Custom Software Applications
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO Tools)

…And more. You just need the proper consultants who can help you pull it off. Solutions that are properly put through can be successfully coordinated by internet and computer beginners without the expense of full-time IT Personnel. Run your business with the functionality secrets enjoyed by Fortune 500 companies.

Website Design is the pursuit of the Web and I. Bringing big business savvy to small businesses in the New York City / Metropolitan Area

Website Design Long Beach

Website Design and Applications Hosted By Microsoft For the City of Long Beach

The Web and I, Inc. is one of a select few engineers of Microsoft Office Live Small Business. Microsoft Office Live Small Business is the latest in cloud computing. You get quality website hosting, sophisticated business applications, ERP integration, internal social networking, and online reputation management with an extraordinarily robust solution. The future of the Web is here. Get online, get customers, and take your business to the next level! We are also ready to lead you to Office 365, when that is live in 2012.

More than just a Website Host,Microsoft Office Live includes the following key features:

  • Contact Management
  • Customer Relationship Management
  • Time and Schedule Management
  • Sales Management
  • Document Collaboration and Archiving
  • E-Mail Marketing Tools
  • Online Reputation Management Tools
  • Social Networking Tools
  • Custom Software Applications
  • Search Engine Optimization (SEO Tools)

…And more. You just need the perfect consultants who can help you pull it off. Solutions that are properly adopted can be successfully supervised by internet and computer nouveaux without the expense of full-time IT engineers. Run your business with the overall performance secrets enjoyed by Fortune 500 companies.

Website Design is the pursuit of the Web and I. Bringing big business savvy to small businesses in the New York City / Metropolitan Area and the City of Long Beach, Long Island is our goal. We want every small business organization to take advantage of the results offered to larger businesses as a matter of course. We have partnered up with Microsoft Corporation, of Redmond Washington because we believe they offer the best small business hosting. Their sites are up with great reliability, and the engineering science is always being improved. Best of all, hosting is free until 2012 (when they launch Office 365, then it will be $6 per month)The Web and I can create your site from simple sites, to marketing sites, to E-Commerce, and sites with forms on them for collecting customer data. If your business needs are more complex, we can create customer intranets so that you can invoice your customers and present them with special offers and services. The Web and I is trusted by small businesses for marketing as well. Our search engine optimization and social networking can put your site ahead of the competition, with a number one ranking on Google.com.

Visit thewebandi.com for website design for a new era in Long Beach. 646-853-0573.

Working at the Web and I

Of all of the fine companies at the job fair, you may be wondering why chose the Web and I? What sets us apart and makes us think that our company is the best to work at for you, the computer professional. The Web and I is a family owned and operated business. Pay is always based on base salary plus performance bonuses. All jobs will be followed up with a customer satisfaction survey. This will help to determine merit and combined with perfect attendance and no lateness will mean concrete bonuses for you, the independent contractor. Being an independent contractor allows you to have your own business. Not only will you be able to service your own accounts, but if you bring in new business you can get commissions and a profit-share as well, while using our good name to help you sell our services.

Although we have managers here, everyone is also a technician, and the organizational structure is actually flat. Everyone can learn new skills and gain the experience necessary to go on new jobs after passing a qualifying test administered by Thompson Learning or other technical testing center. Many opportunities for mentorship exist here, and on-the-job-training can expand your skill set to include new types of jobs.

Because the world is a risky place and because we want you to feel happy and secure at the Web and I, we have elected to pay full medical, dental, vision, and term life insurance for all full-time independent contractors. Family coverage is available for those of you with families as well. Term life insurance allows you to provide for your family even in the face of the unexpected, and will make you very responsible.

We offer four weeks of paid vacation a year. Studies have shown that independent contractors need to have their mind off of work and enjoy their life for a portion of each year to work at peak efficiency. In order to make sure that you can save for your vacation, we have partnered with Bethpgage Federal Credit Union in order to provide you with a vacation savings plan.  You decide how much you wish to have withheld from your paycheck each week, and when you want your vacation. The credit union will save your money with interest, and automatically release the money to you when it is time to take your vacation.

We believe that a refreshed independent contractor is a productive independent contractor. Because of that, we provide our employees with coffee, tea, juice, cookies, and rolls and bagels. There is no reason to go out for a snack when we have you covered. It is our goal that the Web and I will always be an enjoyable place to work and collaborate, and we will maintain our hospitality to prove that to you.

Price Table

Title Description Travel / Logistics Discount Total
Computer Repair, Business, 1 Hour, Glen Cove Area Computer Repair One (1) hour in your business in Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Locust Valley, and Glen Head. $15.00 10 $67.50
Computer Repair, Business, 1 Hour, Nassau County Outside of the Glen Cove Area Computer Repair 1 Hour in your business in Nassau County outside of Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Locust Valley, and Glen Head. $30.00 8 $101.20
Computer Repair, Business, 1 Hour, Nassau County Outside of the Glen Cove Area, Silver Subscriber Computer Repair 1 Hour in your business in Nassau County outside of Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Locust Valley, and Glen Head. This is a special rate for subscribers of our Technical Support Silver Subscription $30.00 50 $55.00
Computer Repair, residential, 1 Hour, Glen Cove Area Residences Computer Repair 1 Hour in your home in Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Locust Valley, and Glen Head. $15.00 40 $45.00
Google Sitemap Sitemap $20.00 0 $100.00
Graphic Design Graphic design services including logo design, letterhead, and business cards. $20.00 0 $100.00
Programming, 1 Hour Programming per Hour $20.00 0 $100.00
Search Engine Optimization Consultation, 1 Hour Search Engine Optimization, hourly rate for consultation. $20.00 0 $100.00
Social Network Marketing Social Network Marketing, Social Bookmarking, and Related Services $10.00 0 $50.00
Technical Support Silver Subscription Technical support for your business including telephone troubleshooting and email support of up to fifty (50) E-Mails per Month. $20.00 0 $100.00
Virus Removal / Optimization, Business, 1 Hour, Glen Cove Area Virus Removal and / or optimization consultation and execution for one (1) hour in your business in Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Locust Valley, and Glen Head. $15.00 10 $67.50
Virus Removal / Optimization, Business, 1 Hour, Nassau County Outside of the Glen Cove Area Virus Removal and / or optimization consultation and execution for one (1) hour in your business in Nassau County Outside of the Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Locust Valley, and Glen Head Area. $30.00 8 $101.20
Virus Removal / Optimization, Business, 1 Hour, Nassau County Outside of the Glen Cove Area, Silver Subscriber Virus Removal and / or optimization consultation and execution for one (1) hour in your business in Nassau County Outside of the Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Locust Valley, and Glen Head Area. This is a special rate for Silver Subscribers. $30.00 50 $55.00
Virus Removal / Optimization, Residence, 1 Hour, Glen Cove Area Virus Removal and / or optimization consultation and execution for one (1) hour in your residence in Glen Cove, Sea Cliff, Locust Valley, and Glen Head. $15.00 40 $45.00
Website Design 1 Hour, USA Website Design per Hour $20.00 0 $100.00

Customer Relationship Management (CRM)

Microsoft Dynamics CRM is the best way for users in disparate locations to use the same contacts and lead sheets, and collaborate in real-time sharing a telephone contact log, business notes, opportunities, and an Access Database connection.  Dynamics CRM Online is Microsoft’s greatest offering. Hosted as a cloud service, the reliability is guaranteed. Our customers First United Services are using Dynamics CRM online and can attest to its usefulness and reliability. They have been using it to track:

  • Sales and Leads
  • Appointments
  • Orders
  • Invoicing
  • Telephone Calls
  • Letters
  • Payments
  • Work done for customers.

With Dynamics CRM, everyone in the Office is on the same page.

Business Contact Manager was originally a very exciting product in 2000, when I was creating MS Access databases with Oracle back-ends over at NYU School of Medicine.  I used the Business Contact Manager as a model for communications tracking and eventually to connect to a more advanced Oracle database as the basis for our Intellectual Inventory. The purpose of the Intellectual Inventory was to showcase all of the publications, courses taught, research grants, patents, and technology transfers of the faculty, staff, and students of the School of Medicine.  A secondary purpose was to use a MESH (Medical English Standard Subheadings) standardized keyword vocabulary to categorize the interests of these active scientific investigators.  With the keywords, cross tabulation with academic levels was possible to create a cross matching service providing targeted funding opportunities from Federal, foundation, NGO, Corporate, State, and City funding.   A third purpose was to provide reports to chairs indicating capacities and interests within the University to collaborate on large program projects grants and center grants from the NIH, the DOD, and more.

Where Business Contact Manager came in handy was in taking these e-mail addresses fed from the Oracle database I created and managed and synchronize it with Outlook in order to send out the targeted funding opportunities and other reports automatically based on one set of research. Graduate assistants were hired to perform much of the research and the process involved collecting all of the data in Access, and sending the E-Mails out with Outlook using the Mail Merge functionality in Access.  MS Access was a wonderful tool because I could host local tables, connect to Oracle and SQL Server databases, and also share data with our Office of Development’s Raiser’s Edge database, also on MS Access.

Now Business Contact Manager is available in its latest form on the Cloud, with enhanced capabilities, and is known as Dynamics CRM. The Cloud is in this case four continent distributed massively redundant data centers hosting Microsoft Cloud Services   The service is quick, reliable, thoroughly tested in real-time, and best of all can help you share your contact files across your organization.  Added capabilities include:

  • Export to Spreadsheet.
  • Connect to Access Database on Your Machine.
  • Multiple Security Tiers.
  • Five Free Users per account with free hosting until Migration then $6 per month.
  • Shared Document Manager.
  • Additional SharePoint applications possible.

Another business that uses Business Contact Manager is First United Services Mortgage Modifications. With an office of ten employees, they did not wish to have a server on-site or excessive IT staffing expenses. They have been using Microsoft Dynamics CRM online in conjunction with Office 365  as a sophisticated Customer Relationship Management and ERP Solution for several months now. With ten employees their total out-of-pocket is under $75 per user per month. Offices with five or less users experience no out-of-pocket expenses per month for hosting until Office 365 migration slated for November 2011.  Additionally, there will be a lot of new features like online document sharing and simultaneous editing in realtime, video teleconferencing, compliant archiving, enterprise voicemail, automatic Microsoft Office 2010, and more.

Contact us at (646) 853-0573 to get started now!

Social Networking Marketing

Social Network Marketing or Web 2.0 Population / Web 3.0 Population is a strategy to allow you to interact with the different online communities on the Internet that offer Web 2.0 and Web 3.0 Services and community marketing experience.

There are two main benefits to having a social networking presence:

  • Direct interaction with community members on social networking sites who are potential customers.
  • Inbound links to your Website from the profile are a boost to your Google Page Ranking for specific keywords.
  • Social network automation can bring about repeated reinforcement of links matching keywords across many networks every time your Website is updated.
  • A marketing program that can be helped by college interns, saving time and money.
  • Better local targeted marketing of your products and services.

Get started now! Call us at (646) 853-0573.

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