A Look at our CIO Consulting Services:

With technologies growing more expansive and complicated by the day, it’s never been more vital to have trusted outside experts who can bring you up to speed with the most bang for your buck. CIO Consulting Inc. offers a broad range of complete solutions, all customized to fit your unique business needs and goals.

Network Infrastructure Analysis and Management
Strategic Planning
IT Budget Management
Data Center Management
Desktop Management
IT Department Appraisal
Business Processes Management
Information Security & Compliance
Disaster Recovery & Business Continuity Planning

Network Infrastructure Analysis and Management

Your business deserves an advanced network that delivers peak performance today and allows for expandability tomorrow. CIO Consulting Inc. answers with sophisticated network analysis and management services that protect, strengthen and accelerate your company's most vital connection. First, we perform a top-to-bottom review of your existing network infrastructure, assessing the viability and strength of your IT, Telecom, VOIP and other technologies. Then, we can work to upgrade your existing network or set up a new one, selecting a system that provides the most secure, speedy and reliable connections for your budget. And once you're set up, our network monitoring software helps manage your network over the long-term, detecting problems before they start, identifying jams and tracking usage for optimum performance.

Strategic Planning

With An essential component of our offering is marrying technical and business expertise for business-aligned IT solutions. With this business planning expertise, we are adept at designing adaptable short- and long-term growth strategies that help your business to modernize its technologies and make the most of its capabilities. Our end goal is to leverage your technology so that it becomes a competitive, lucrative force in your business.

IT Budget Management

CIO Consulting Inc. helps businesses to make sense of their current technology investments. We create models for total cost of ownership, return on investment and the like to advise you on your best options for hardware, software, servers, networks, phone and fax systems and more. And since technology is ever-changing, we devise long-term strategies for future technology growth that fit your anticipated budget and help facilitate your business goals.

Data Center Management

Oftentimes, companies are saddled with old or underperforming equipment that, in the long-term, is more expensive than replacement. CIO Consulting Inc. can help you set up a robust data center that effectively runs and proactively manages your operations. We diagnose the status of your data center’s equipment, recommending what and when replacements should occur. We also assess your out-of-warranty or soon-to-expire equipment to keep you protected as long as possible. Among our other data center management services, we utilize application server monitoring to detect problems before they arise and avert preventable downtime. We also develop solutions for data archiving and storage with immediate retrieval.

Desktop Management (including Telecom & VOIP)

Unnecessary, redundant or insufficient software and equipment not only drain your resources but place your entire company at risk. CIO Consulting Inc. thoroughly assesses the most advantageous type and amount of computers, software and the like to develop a desktop management plan that saves you more, enhances performance and secures your data. We can also improve help desk functionality as well as set up asset tracking, software revision control and configuration standards. Additionally, we provide complete telecommunications management, devising integrated strategies for your phone systems, Internet access, VOIP and inter-office connectivity as well as offering contract and vendor negotiation and management to get you the right equipment at the best price. In fact, we’re especially savvy at finding hidden cost savings in consolidating Internet accounts and telecommunications contracts.

IT Department Appraisal

Often, once your systems and processes are optimized and managed, there is less need for on-site personnel. And in many cases, companies are drained by overstaffed IT departments, underutilized personnel or employees whose substandard work doesn’t rationalize their salaries. CIO Consulting Inc. can prudently evaluate the competency of and necessity for your IT staff and advise on a restructuring plan that often affords sizeable savings.

Business Processes Management

We are experts at identifying areas Reengineering your business processes is a crucial component in maximizing your IT investments and hitting business goals quicker. It’s also valuable in cultivating efficient, positive relationships with vendors, partners and clients. CIO Consulting Inc. is proficient in identifying where and how your workflows and processes can be retooled or replaced to maximize their productivity, flexibility and cost-efficiency. For instance, we may employ automated management software appropriate to your industry to mechanize your most common business tasks or institute a centralized billing and management system.

Information Security and Compliance

Many companies believe they are protected simply because they’ve purchased some form of virus protection or network security. Unfortunately, these measures are often dangerously lacking, with expired warranties, vulnerable spots or insufficient monitoring. To ensure your data’s total privacy and safety, CIO Consulting Inc. performs the most comprehensive analysis of your IT infrastructure to identify all vulnerabilities and threats. With a systematic classification of all your weak areas, we devise a complete security strategy for full risk mitigation. This may include broader security monitoring, virus protection software, sophisticated password security protocols, regular security patches, increased safeguarding for remote users, more detailed security policies and procedures and corporate-wide security structuring. Risk mitigation also encompasses ensuring across-the-board regulatory compliance, such as obtaining licensing documentation for all software.

Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity Planning

In the event of a disaster (such as a virus attack or natural catastrophe), proper planning can mean the difference between rapid recovery with minimal losses and devastating or irreparable damage to your business. CIO Consulting Inc.’s disaster recovery services safeguard your mission-critical data and deliver true peace of mind. We start with careful analysis and testing of your network infrastructure and critical data, then run disaster scenarios for hardware failures, natural phenomena, hacker/virus attacks and the like. Our customized disaster recovery solutions include installing effective backup systems, defining recovery procedures, implementing an appropriate level of system redundancy, integrating an effective power backup system and developing a full emergency response plan.