Welcome to Westcountry Business - IT Products and Computers Services for small business in Devon

Westcountry Business Ltd. provide IT Products and Services particularly suited to the needs of small and medium sized businesses (SMBs)in the South West. Through no-nonsense sound advice and a range of products selected to 'do the job' with the minimum of fuss and cost, we offer value for money solutions that match our clients' needs.

If you have a specific requirement, please visit our 'common issues' section - listing scenarios such as creating a network, buying a server, working away from the office, extending your network, buying computers and computing equipment, backups and Disaster Recovery and more - where you will find some sound, practical advice and a list of available options.

If you want to share your Microsoft Outlook folders - calendars, contacts, tasks etc - without an Exchange server then contact us then you need the Toltec Connector and Westcountry Business are the region's only official reseller of this excellent software.

Whoever you are - big or small - wherever you are - Westcountry or beyond - please browse our website for more information and don't hesitate to contact us directly if you have any questions at all.

Situated in Torquay, we are the ideal partner for any small or medium sized business across the Westcountry - from Torquay to Totnes, from Paignton to Plymouth and for Newton Abbot, Exeter, Devon, Cornwall, Somerset and beyond.

Glossary

To help with some of the common abbreviations used, here is a quick reference guide:

• IT stands for Information Technology. This is a term to mean computers or computing, but is also general enough to include other sorts of technology, including your network and all devices attached to it (routers, switches, hubs etc.).
• ICT stands for Information and Communication Technology, which is basically IT plus telephones. The technology behind telephone systems and computer systems is converging (i.e. becoming more similar or the same), so the term ICT has become commonly used instead of IT.
• SMB or SME means 'Small or Medium sized Business (SMB) or Enterprise (SME)'. Views vary on exactly how this is defined, but the EU documents it as 10 - 49 employees and less than £7m turnover (small) or 50 - 250 employees and turnover below £40m (medium). The EU also defines micro-enterprises as less than 10 employees. So, that's most of the Westcountry then...
• Outlook and Exchange are registered trademarks of Microsoft. Outlook is the organiser program (e-mail, calendar, to-do, contacts etc.) that comes with Microsoft Office. This runs on the desktop PC. Exchange is the program that runs on a central server that turns Outlook from a personal organiser into a 'groupware' product', providing company wide e-mail and allowing users to share calendars, share contacts, share tasks etc.