Routine Support & Maintenance
Confluence excels at providing routine infrastructure maintenance and support. Fully one-half of our company is dedicated to this area. Confluence provides both preventative maintenance support and on-call, as-needed assistance for problems with virtually every element of your infrastructure. Our friendly help desk is just a phone call away.
We combine remote monitoring and management with in-person office visits. During our in-person office visits, your technician will help users one-on-one, providing assistance and training and building internal capability. We tailor the support to the unique cultures of the organizations we serve. Our clients value knowing expert technical advice is available.
Our certified technicians are expert at:
- Diagnosing and fixing problems
- Explaining resolutions to non-technical staff
- Recommending improvements to smooth operations, increase efficiency and increase uptime
- Keeping our client protected from viruses, malware, intrusions, lost data and unauthorized access
With our help desk, if you have a problem or question, you can just pick up the phone and have your questions answered.
We support both Microsoft and Apple platforms. Infrastructure support covers:
- Groupware: Microsoft Exchange, Google Apps, BPOS and Office 365
- LAN / WAN: Firewalls, switches, routers, hubs
- Servers: RAID arrays, CPU / RAM upgrades, Power supplies / UPS
- Cabling
- Backup Systems: Network Attached Storage, tape-based systems, internet-based backup, Symantec Backup Exec and other backup software
- Peripherals: Printers, All-in-ones, networked copiers, scanners
- PDAs: Droids, Blackberries, IPhones etc.
- Software: Common nonprofit accounting software, fundraising software, mass email software, Microsoft Office, Adobe products
- Protection: The entire suite of Symantec products including other popular Anti-virus software (Trendmicro, AVG, McAfee), solutions to prevent Malware, Postini
Confluence offers infrasructure support as a custom-tailored combination of on-site support (for routine maintenance and support), as-needed on-call support, remote assistance and managed services. Rather than pushing a "one size fits all" support model, we tailor the support to each organization's needs. So while one 25-person nonprofit may have someone on-site for two half days a week, another prefers to pay a fixed price for managed services, while a third might have only ad-hoc, as-needed, on-call help.
For many of our clients, there is just no substitute for having a skilled technician in the office for personal support. Our on-site support is delivered in 3 or 4 hour blocks of time, with the number of blocks per month depending on the size and other characteristics of our clients.
Confluence has invested in a state-of-the-art helpdesk software Connectwise that integrates our help desk, dispatching, service level management, project management, contact management, time tracking, billing and reporting into a single, web based application. We also use the N-able IT Network Monitoring and System Management Software, another state-of-the-art system made just for support businesses like ours.
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What Our Clients Say
"As I work with the application more and more, the software you created reveals its power and function. We are extremely pleased with your system. Thanks again for all the support you have provided us."
Portfolio
SOS – Children’s Villages
Confluence provided routine / regularly scheduled outsourced IT services including server, network, desktop and end user assistance. We also installed voice and data cabling in their new office.
National Center for Victims of Crime
Confluence provided stop-gap infrastructure support after IT staff departure and now we provide permanent part-time IT support
NALP
Confluence has been providing IT support to NALP since 2002. In addition to our routine, scheduled in-office visits, over the years we have provided a variety of other technology consulting and services to the organization. We have performed two comprehensive technology assessments, most recently including an evaluation of whether NALP should replace their aging server or move into the cloud. We have helped manage the procurement of contractors to redesign and re-implement their PSLawNet site for public sector law jobs and are a trusted consultant for any technical questions the organization might have.
We recently helped NALP move offices. Confluence purchased a new server and ten new workstations. We installed and configured the Microsoft Small Business Server (SBS 2010), and configured the new Windows 7 machines with Office 2010, also helping the organization move to a new location with minimal downtime.
Moriah fund
Initially, Confluence migrated the Moriah Fund from the Novell Small Business Suite to the Microsoft Small Business Server which including upgrading the operating system and the mail server. More recently, we performed a new Confluence provides routine infrastructure support to this nonprofit as well as two other organizations that share the infrastructure. Support international office as well as local office.
Worker Rights Consortium
Confluence moved this organization off their outsourced provider – including new internet service, internal server and internal mail. Provide routine ongoing technical support and on-call service.
Sasha Bruce Youthwork
Confluence assisted with routine infrastructure support, cabling, networking, providing internet to a dozen facilities, consulting, database assistance, on-call maintenance and support. Our work also included setting up a Microsoft Exchange Server.
Women Entrepreneurs of Baltimore
Confluence provided infrastructure support for the setup of 30 new HP computers and servers as recipient of an HP micro-enterprise award. For this original installation, we installed and configured MS Exchange, set up wireless LAN and peripherals, provided training and continuing routine maintenance and support. Since then, Confluence has continued to provide infrastructure support in a variety of capacities.
Association of Fish and Wildlife Agencies
Confluence provides routine and ad-hoc technical support services for this client regarding any issues with their infrastructure and other IT equipment. We also provide as-needed expert website assistance and support.
The Humane Society of the US
Cabled basement and performed miscellaneous other cabling projects, slowly upgrading the headquarters from Cat-5 to Cat-6.
Faces and Voices of Recovery
Confluence provides ad-hoc network, infrastructure and project-level technical support services.
Doorways for Women and Families
Confluence has provided IT support to Doorways for 2003. Doorways provides safe shelter and housing for families and victims of domestic violence along with a variety of related support services. We have provided a range of services over the years including:
- Cabling of original offices
- Routine computer, server and network maintenance and support, combining regularly scheduled in-office visits with remote support and help desk assistance.
- Project plan and implementation of major office moves
- Outsourced project management services in the implementation of a complex new case management client tracking database
Visitors' Service Center
The Visitors' Service Center helps prisoners while they are incarcerated and newly released to create, maintain and strengthen family and community ties so they are better prepared for successful transition back into the community in Washington DC. All Confluence staff who have had the opportunity to support VSC have been touched by the powerful impact of such a small nonprofit. Over the years, we provide all the desktop and server support. We also modified an existing Microsoft Access database to help the organization track clients and client services, and designed and implemented a Microsoft SharePoint extranet site to support the work of the Board of Directors.
Designed and implemented a client tracking Access database to provide a user-friendly system with advanced search/reporting features that made tracking and reporting on clients and provided services easier.
The Community Partnership for the Prevention of Homelessness
For TCP: We purchased and set up a new server at TCP that freed up an older but functional server to be redeployed, and upgraded a dozen computers, cabling the facility and setting up the newly upgraded machines.
Confluence designed and implemented a custom client program management system (Access front-end with Microsoft SQL server backend database).






