FastNet as Partner

FastNet is known as the first Internet provider created, in 1995, in the Marche. It began specifically as a company for the development of Internet services and then gradually grew with the collaboration of operators greatly experienced in the computer and networking sector.

Today, after only six years, FastNet is something more: a joint stock company with a share capital of 2 billion 685 million lira fully paid, whose major shareholders are the Pieralisi Group and Elica SpA. It is the right technological partner for companies who want to shift their business into a higher gear.

Mission

With the aim of adapting itself to the ever-changing conditions of the market, FastNet's company strategies and technological partners are defined in a medium-term development plan which is periodically updated.

FastNet's mission however is always that of operating on the market to bring Internet into companies and companies into the Internet by means of specific software solutions and additional high-level networking.

Partnerships

At present, FastNet is involved in numerous prestigious partnerships which on one hand guarantee the client professionalism and competence in every service, and on the other offer the FastNet team the chance to participate in training courses which keep them continuously up-to-date in the Information Technology sector.

Specific certifications obtained are: IBM Advanced Business Partner in the xSeries and Storage sectors, and in Lotus, Tivoli and Websphere brands, Microsoft Certified Partner , CISCO (Marche's first provider) Premier Partner, CISCO Security Authorised Reseller (the only one in the Marche), CITRIX Gold Business Partner, and TELECOM Data Partner.

FastSolutions

Fastnet's primary role is to be a Partner. This means that, independent of single projects, support for the customer takes priority in a continuing service of consultancy and technical/strategic support.

For this reason, every project is faced transversally using all available expertise with one single objective: identifying, proposing, and developing the best solution for each client.

Network solutions: one of the most ambitious challenges of bringing internet to a company is that of making internet that company's natural basis, its digital nervous system, so that it becomes the instrument for creating new models of business, knowledge, communication and collaboration, as well as providing ways to increase productivity and efficiency. With this aim, FastNet offers consultancy services, planning and development of network solutions, remote connections (WAN) and local connections (LAN), which represent state-of-the-art technology for the protection of company computer systems.

More specifically, thanks as well to its important partnerships, FastNet can offer such advanced solutions as: ADSL and HDSL, voice over IP, IP phone, dedicated lines, wireless (laser and parabola), virtual private network (VPN), frame relay, storage and backup management, Symantec antivirus solutions, Citrix MetaFrame with Thin client technology., Tivoli Enterprise Console and NetView.

Web Services, to bring your company into the Internet

Web Projects

Today, just being on the Web isn't enough. The objective and, in particular, the real present necessity, is being there in the right way.

FastNet is ready to realize every specific site project, concentrating all required forces to suitably personalize and make the most out of the virtual message.

To this end, FastNet also offers a consultancy service to plan a web project integrated with the reality and communication strategy of the company and to exploit the particular characteristics of the Internet medium.

To be truly of value, a web project also needs specific, targeted online and offline promotions. With this in mind, FastNet has a strict collaboration established with Milan's Manzoni company, the Espresso Group's prestigious advertising agency.

E-business

Present market characteristics compel companies to give new impetus to their commercial activities, in particular by adopting one of two e-business models geared towards the final consumer (Business to Consumer) and another to business partners (Business to Business). The problem is often how exactly to make this particular change.

FastNet is the partner who knows how to advise and guide a company in the correct direction. With this philosophy, FastNet makes all its experience in the sector available: assistance and support services, technological guarantees (IBM Net.Commerce package, now Websphere Commerce Server), quality of service and band (Telecom and Cable&Wireless), in such a way as to create the best solution every time.

Recently Fastnet created a new partnership with iEnterprises Inc to put their winner CRM solution (Domino based) into the italian market.

Software applications to meet the market's challenges successfully.

We know that you have to meet the challenges of the market with all possible force, and that's why we've created personalised software solutions using these platforms: WebSphere, Lotus Domino, Microsoft ASP, LINUX with Php and ColdFusion - necessary to give concrete form to Intranet and Extranet networks. In particular, we have finely-tuned applications (Fast Intranet, FastPortal and FastTicket) which take into account the managing of : resources, calendars, agendas, mail, technical and quality documentation, and company workflow.

Other outstanding management applications include: CVs, news reports, course calendars, catalogues, and on-line booking (FasTicket).

Fast Education: to increase your professionalism

In the new economy, for a project to succeed, it has to be shared and spread through every level of the company organisation. For this reason, the personnel destined to manage the new initiative require specific knowledge and a particular cultural background.

To meet this necessity, FastNet is available as a Partner in the organisation of training courses geared towards teaching technology at its most modern and sophisticated. Details of programmes can be found at the site www.fastnet.it, where it is also possible to make on-line applications and acquisitions.