Low Cost Big Benefit

Customers that add our Virtual CIO service will be allowed shift their focus away from IT problems and towards their core business. Among other things, a Virtual CIO will take charge of your information technology infrastructure to:

1. Ensure Productivity - Your business critical systems need to be proactively managed to reduce the likelihood of unplanned downtime.
2. Process Improvement – We follow the ITIL framework to ensure best practice when forming IT processes.
3. Manage Security Risks – Virus protection plan, spam filtering, and network security often are overlooked in small infrastructures.
4. Create a Disaster Recovery Strategy – In the event of a disaster will you go out of business without a plan? For most the answer is yes, we prepare for “when” not “if”.

Virtual CIO Process

1. Assess where you are with a IT Systems Audit.  This covers all hardware and software systems, and network security.
2. Document Findings results are presented as a comprehensive report outlining areas of strength, weakness, and recommendations.
3. Present Recommendations including: Tactical recommendations - things you must do to stay in business (e.g. no back-ups, setup firewall, etc) Strategic recommendations - things you should do to maintain business continuity (e.g. upgrade operating system, implement system monitoring, virtuale servers, etc.)
4. Implement mutually agreed upon recommendations
5. Continually Assess business needs

Virtual CIO Benefits

When you rent a CIO or "part time CIO" as some people call it, keep in mind that a Virtual CIO comes in as your business partner helping you focus on your business needs - not just as a technical employee looking for direction.

• With a Virtual CIO you get an expert team capable of providing a broader spectrum of experience across many technologies - eliminating the need for you to support a staff trained in multiple disciplines.
• As a result of specialists handling tasks instead of generalists - you get better service and better solutions.
• Your Virtual CIO should lower your IT-related expenses - since you are only paying for services you use.
• A Virtual CIO comes with established methods and procedures to account for work performed - a level of accountability that you likely would not receive from technical employees.
• On-call 24 hours a day for whatever problems may arise means faster response times to whatever the situation is that could be potentially disruptive to your business.

IMG's experience, and that of our customers, is that a Virtual CIO can provide your business better, more reliable and more secure technology solutions at lower cost.

Contact IMG today for a no obligation consultation.