Our History

“To offer honest, open and jargon-free guidance.”

Many have worked with us for a long time, trusting us as an extension of their IT team. While we’ve come to see them as friends.

You can trace the decision behind why Axess Systems became a virtualisation and Digital Infrastructure specialist to a wet Thursday lunchtime, in November 2000. 

Already working in the IT Industry for a distributor, Ed Morton (founder of Axess Systems), was seeing IT leaders think differently about how they delivered their applications to users. 

Traditionally Citrix was used for remote access, but IT leaders saw the benefits and savings by delivering applications centrally. 

"From the word go I wanted Axess to be driven by four key principles: specialism, value, honestly and service.

To be specialists in a set of key technologies and understand them thoroughly. To offer honest, open and jargon-free guidance. To provide competitively priced, value for money services. With a focus on the customer's needs underpinning everything we do."

Ed Morton

Founder and Managing Director

At that time numerous companies were trying to establish themselves in this area, but they were trying to add these specialist skills on to their existing general IT business.

This meant the end users were not getting the benefits they expected and started approaching the distributor where Ed worked for guidance.

Fed up with clients getting poor advice and service, and after a particularly colourful account from one end user, the decision was made – Axess Systems was born.

Grabbing an A4 pad, Ed set about over lunch to map out what was needed to make a specialist reseller work.

While the A4 pad was lost long ago, these aims and values have remained true today, as they were back then:

Be a specialist
– understand the technology thoroughly.

Provide value
– we can’t always be the cheapest, but we can provide the best overall value.

Be honest, open and give plain-speaking advice
– tell the customer about the disadvantages, not just the advantages

Deliver great customer service

As the technology has evolved and developed, so too have the skills and experiences of Axess Systems.

But we still specialise in providing services to IT leaders who want to achieve the benefits and savings that are obtained by running apps centrally – whether on your premises or a private, hybrid or public cloud.

So, whatever you’re looking to achieve from your IT, why not call us and start the conversation today?