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SmartStuf Data Systemstm create and deliver all manner of technology and computer training to clients and their staff.



Engage us when you want to ensure your staff are fully competent in the use and operation of computers and business tools.



We provide training courses tailored to your exact requirements.
These are available on a tutored basis at your own location, or via web-based 'CBT' (Computer Based Training) run from our own servers and accessible here.
Being based in Blackpool, if you decide that you'd rather come to us (and get away from the distractions of the office), we can provide you with an unbeatable range of prices and styles of accomodation.
Hotel accomodation is certainly not one of the things that we're short of in this town.

Our courses cover not only general desktop skills such as word-processing, spreadsheet manipulation, database development and administration, but also a complete range of Linux and Open Source familiarisation courses designed to lead your staff into the use of this exciting and business focused equipment. With the power of Linux, and a choice of easy-to-use intuitive desktops ...such as -

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...the journey into Open Source operations is both simple and fun.
Certainly nowhere as difficult as you might imagine, or as troublesome as those with a vested interest in keeping their sticky-fingers inside your wallet might like you to believe.

Our courses include:

    Basic introduction to the computer based office (1/2 day)
    Introducing Linux and Open Source solutions (1 day)
    Breaking the window-pane, transferring from Windoze to the power of Linux(1 day)
    A beginners guide to spreadsheets and management tools (1 day)
    Business Operations-101 : An extended course covering all popular business tools(3 day)
    Desktop publishing - getting the message out (2 day)
    Database operations - introducing the Schema (1/2 day)
    Database operations - building the Tables (1/2 day)
    Database operations - introducing Forms (1/2 day)
    Database operations - interactive applications (2 day)
.... and many more.

Don't see what you want?

Simply ask... and we will deliver.
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Will YOU be one of them?
A recent House of Commons Report (High Street Britain 2015) states that 30,000 independent High Street retailers will disappear over the next 6 years due to a lack of passing trade (footfall customers).

As if you needed any more; ... that is both a depressing, and shocking, prediction to all operators of High Street independent shops.

As if ...the Credit Crunch;
... the general lack of confidence in, and from, the Banks;
... the ever increasing cost of employment and government bureaucracy;
... and the forever steepening spiral of demands for rent and rates across the UK marketplace weren't enough to send you into deep despair. The prediction that future shoppers will abandon the High Street, and your expensively enticing window displays, should convince you that now is not the time to entrench your business.
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