Yes. First Stop IT supports agronomy and farm consultancies that run Gatekeeper, keeping both the software and its SQL database fast, available and backed up. Gatekeeper sits at the heart of crop and agronomy work, so the goal is simple: it’s there every time your agronomists need it, in the office or out in the field.
Gatekeeper holds your recommendations, field records and crop data, and it relies on a database that needs proper care. A generalist IT company often treats it as someone else’s problem. We don’t. Here’s how we keep it running.
Keeping Gatekeeper and its database healthy
Gatekeeper runs on a SQL database, and the database is what makes it fast or slow. We monitor and maintain the server it sits on, keep it patched, and watch performance so your agronomists aren’t waiting on a sluggish system during the busy season.
Available wherever your agronomists work
Agronomy isn’t a desk job. Your team needs access to Gatekeeper from the office and from the field. We make sure that access is reliable and secure, so a recommendation can be recorded and acted on wherever the work happens.
Backed up and recoverable
Your Gatekeeper data is too valuable to lose. We back up the database and test that it restores, so a server fault or a mistake never means lost crop records or recommendations. Recovery is a known quantity, not a hope.
Updates handled for you
Software updates and database housekeeping are part of keeping Gatekeeper reliable. We handle these for you, scheduled sensibly so they don’t interrupt the working day, so the system stays current and stable.
A real example: data recovered in minutes
We support a rural, agricultural and property consultancy that has rated our service positively on every ticket for more than five years. When a colleague’s edits to a live document were overwritten after switching laptops, we restored the exact earlier version within about half an hour using managed Acronis backup. The same care protects the systems and data your agronomy work depends on.
Why agronomy consultancies choose First Stop IT
First Stop IT has supported businesses since 2002, including rural land, agronomy and property consultancies, and we know the software these firms rely on: Gatekeeper, BigHand, Argus Developer, Power BI, Google Earth Pro and Xero, alongside Microsoft 365. Our credentials include:
- Cyber Essentials Certified
- IASME Cyber Assurance (Gold)
- NCSC Assured Service Provider (Cyber Advisor for Cyber Essentials)
- Microsoft Partner
- Crown Commercial Service Supplier (G-Cloud)
- Quality Principles Certified
We look after more than 2,000 endpoints across 50 companies, we’ve been named a Top 50 UK MSP for three years running, and we support organisations with 10 to 100 employees across Essex, Hertfordshire and London, including Harlow and Bishop’s Stortford.
Book a free IT and cyber security review
Want Gatekeeper to be fast, available and safe? Book a free IT and cyber security review with First Stop IT and we’ll check how your agronomy systems are set up.