How Peter Sheppard empowered their workforce through Microsoft 365
Peter Sheppard, an Australian-owned fashion retailer specializing in high-end women’s footwear, is committed to bringing their customers the best shoes from around the world, with a focus on the perfect fit, luxury, and style.
While Peter Sheppard leads the way in women’s footwear, they rely on the IT team at VITG to support their technology and provide IT leadership. They sought VITG’s help right back when VITG was founded and remain today one of VITG’s first and longest-standing clients.
“Recently, VITG rolled out Office 365 across our business. It has enabled us to work more efficiently and, most importantly, remotely.” Erhan Baykur, General Manager
The Challenge
Before Office 365, Peter Sheppard was using a Remote Desktop Connection to work remotely. While this technology served its purpose, Peter Sheppard was ready to take the next step in empowering their workforce for remote work.
Through the guidance of VITG, Peter Sheppard decided to migrate their business productivity platform to Office 365.
“Chris Sheppard, our CEO and Merchandise Buyer, had many difficulties accessing reports and files when abroad buying shoes. With Office 365, he can work on his files and access the latest reports with ease. Microsoft Teams also enables him to schedule face-to-face meetings with the merchandising team remotely from his laptop or iPhone on the go.” Office 365 Case Study
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“Our business now operates more efficiently and has more capability than ever. Long-term, this has saved the business money and time through efficiency and not having to invest in and maintain expensive hardware.
Everyone loves the flexibility of Office 365, the ability to work across different devices with access to all files and platforms in real-time, no matter the location or device. This has changed our remote working capability and taken us to the next level.
VITG’s services allow us to focus on selling shoes; we don’t need to worry about IT and systems—they take care of that. We don’t need in-house IT. Helping us launch Office 365 is one key upgrade VITG identified and offered that aligned with our needs at the time.
The Office 365 suite has exceeded our expectations and only improves with updates and changes made by Microsoft.” Peter Sheppard Office 365 Case Study
The Results
“We were one of VITG’s first customers. Peter Sheppard (founder of Peter Sheppard Footwear) assigned Jacob Ohlson 20 years ago to take on the company’s IT needs. Jacob provided reliable service and knowledge unmatched by anyone in the industry at the time. This high level of service still holds throughout their business and staff today, which is why we still use VITG and can highly recommend them to others in our industry,” says Baykur.
Peter Sheppard now has a fully upgraded and scalable business productivity platform, which has successfully eliminated their onsite servers and enabled their team to work from anywhere securely.
“VITG has great communication, understands our needs and industry, and is simply great to work with.” – Erhan Baykur
