Benefits of having a CIO

Unlike managing an IT team, or multiple vendors, a Tech Prognosis Virtual CIO is your primary point of contact. Like a CIO, we develop plans together on coming up with ways to make prudent use of your IT investments by:

• Aligning IT spending with business objectives.
• Measuring IT expenses against a defined ROI (Return On Investment).
• Helping you decide on what new investments to make, what to accelerate or postpone, and what to stop.

The utilization of these key principles makes sure that the business has a balanced portfolio of IT investments and is achieving the highest possible return for the business.

The Tech Prognosis Virtual CIO program will benefit you as a business owner if you:

• Need to have your computer network, e-mail, database, and Internet access up and running 24/7/365 without problems.
• Value the security of your data, and want to do everything possible to prevent loss, corruption, or theft.
• Want to maximize the speed, availability, and performance of your network.
• Hate dealing with--or thinking about--computer problems and other complexities of operating a computer network.
• Don’t have the time or staff or budget to deal with computer network maintenance.
• Need help with writing a plan to structure IT services, schooling company executives on how to integrate e-commerce strategies into your business plans, or someone accompanying you on visits with bankers, venture capitalists and financial suitors.
• Need help in creating and running websites
• Want to Create solutions to integrate Social Media into your product and service offerings
• Need help to better understand your technology options: the costs today and in the future (total cost of ownership)
• Dramatically reduce the technology costs in your Operational and Capital budgets

The Benefits Are Obvious

• Avoid expensive repairs and recovery costs. Network monitoring and maintenance will prevent expensive network disasters from ever happening in the first place. This saves you money
• Experience faster performance, fewer glitches, and practically zero downtime. Computer parts are mechanical so some parts of your system will degrade in performance over time, causing them to slow down, hang up, and crash. Our preventative maintenance and network monitoring will detect these problems early and prevent them from escalating into more expensive repairs and downtime.
• Feel as though you have an in-house IT department--without the costs. As a network maintenance customer, you’ll have access to a knowledgeable support staff that can be reached immediately should you have any kind of problem or question.
• Receive substantial discounts on IT services that you are already buying.
  Most IT firms will nickel and dime you over every little thing they do. Under this program, you’ll pay one flat, affordable rate and get all of the technical support you need. No hidden charges, caveats, or disclaimers.
• Reduce trip fees and receive faster response to your problems. With our remote monitoring and maintenance software, we have the ability to remotely access and repair most network problems right from our offices. If we cannot fix it remotely, we will dispatch a technician to your office the same day.
  If you currently work with a technician or technical service company we will partner with them to control your costs, alert them of alarms, and have them dispatched to your site when needed.

• Be able to budget for network support just like rent or insurance. Wouldn’t it be nice to avoid unexpected costs for fixing or restoring your network? Now you can.
• Sleep easier knowing the network vermin are being watched. Internet criminals never sleep! But with our round-the-clock monitoring and on-going maintenance, you’ll have one less thing to worry about.  This may require the purchase of some additional hardware or software if necessary components are not present.  This will be identified during the free audit.
• Safeguard your data. Your IT infrastructure hardware is important, but the data on the hard disk is always more important than the hardware that houses it. If you are like most businesses, you rely on your computer systems for daily operations. To make sure you keep your systems operating at optimum levels, it’s time to get serious about protecting your critical, irreplaceable electronic information.
• Stop annoying pop-ups and spyware from taking over your computer and your network. Not only are these intruders annoying, but they can introduce viruses and jeopardize the security of your network.  This may require the purchase of some additional hardware or software if necessary components are not present.  This will be identified during the free audit.
• Gain incredible peace of mind. As a business owner, you already have enough to worry about. We’ll make sure everything pertaining to your network security and reliability is handled so you don’t have to worry about it.

Most of all, we work hard to demystify technology.  There is a lot of information and experience available to you, but not all of it is accurate or effective for your business needs.  We want to make you successful, to eliminate choices which could take you down paths which are counter productive, expensive and could cause you to miss a market opportunity.