Virtual CIO (vCIO)

Technology Strategy Aligned to Your Business Goals

Do you know what the current technology landscape is and how that can be used to further your businesses goals and strategy?

Our vCIO loves nothing more than helping businesses align their technology to their business goals and seeing them succeed. Working together with your vCIO can ensure:

Your technology spend is efficient and aligned
Ensure your software stack has processes that best support your operations
Your technology is mature and improving
Help you stay abreast of current trends and how they may apply to your business

If you need ongoing advice and technology strategy, contact us to set up a free, 1 on 1 consultation and technology audit in Brisbane.

Of 600 SMB’s surveyed by G-Mother almost 89% said technology was their Primary
or a Strong driver to reaching their key business objectives

How Your Business Benefits From vCIO

After working with a number of businesses like yours we know what advice is needed and how to work with you to ensure that’s aligned to your business goals. This is how we achieve that.

47% of SMB with less than 100 employees say they will use outsourced technology management. For small businesses of 100 to 250 employees, this jumps to 58%.

Working with the FortiTech vCIO on your team we keep you abreast of technology trends and harnesses them to make your business succeed.

“I engaged FortiTech to audit our technology and provide objective advice. My business wouldn’t have got where it is without that ongoing subjective and practical advice”

Stephen Brake, Meritous Accounting Brisbane

Strategic Technology Investment

We will analyse your entire technology and digital marketing spend to ensure you are investing in strategically and your business is getting the most value from that investment. Provide ongoing advice and project support.

Data Security & Compliance

Provide advice and guidance to protect your business now and in the future and comply with all necessary legislation as the landscape and threats evolve from disaster recovery, to data breach laws.

Expertise

With over 20 years of technology experience and previous roles as a Group CIO you will have access to all the knowledge your business will need. Coupled with robust processes and tools to ensure you have objective advice with measurable improvements.

Technology Trends

We’ll work with you to discuss the current industry trends in technology and how these may be applied to your business now and which ones to keep an eye on in the future, we are there to even provide some guidance on what it all means too.

ALIGNMENT

Aligning your technology strategy to your business goals for greater success

GREATER VALUE

Ensuring your technology investment delivers greater value across your business

DATA SECURITY

Making sure your business is covered by the necessary technology, policy and compliance

BEST PRACTICE INSIGHTS

Leveraging tools and objective measures for greater insight over time into your technology

Your Business. Tailored vCIO Packages

Whether you are a small business looking for ongoing advice as you grow or a large enterprise needing a vCIO onsite every week we have tailored solutions to suit the size of your business and its needs at a fraction of the cost of employing a full time CIO.

We offer the following packages for ongoing vCIO services

vCIO Light – Monthly meetings for with an agenda aimed at businesses with 15-30 staff to ensure you are making the right choices in infrastructure and software investment and are kept abreast of relevant technology oppurtunities and issues
vCIO Small Business – For small businesses with 30-100 staff our vCIO meets monthly to discuss business direction, needs and presents tailored advice along with quarterly benchmarking to ensure investment is being applied to business goals with a strongly linked technology strategy
vCIO Enterprise – Working hand in hand with the business executives to develop and formalise business aligned technology strategy across all business units with a focus on greater technology maturity, process improvement and improvments in competitive advantage. Coupled with additonal time investments on a project by project basis gives enterprises of 100 plus staff the impact of a full time CIO without the cost

What You Get From FortiTech

Imagine someone that takes the time to understand your business, sits in with your executives on team meetings, gets to know how mature your technology is and works as hard as you to make your business successful. We are a locally-based, responsive technology services partner that’s advising and guiding the technology choices your business makes to ensure you have the best long-term investment. An expert that is there for your business journey and takes the time to consult, engage and help you get the most from your technology... the way you need it.

That vCIO partner is FortiTech.