Virtual Chief Information Officer (vCIO) services are a cost-effective, accessible way for companies of all sizes to tap into digital know-how and expertise when making decisions about their tech infrastructure. Businesses use a vCIO to connect the internal processes and functions of the business with technology–taking advantage of innovations and opportunities that can enhance returns, productivity, or scalability.
Implementing a vCIO service gives your organization high-level direction in terms of tech investments, ensuring your digital assets are fully aligned with your overall business plans, strategies, and aspirations.
Outsourcing the role of a CIO to an accomplished IT provider–often alongside cloud services Houston–offers affordability while ensuring your organization knows how best to ensure IT is coordinated with the businesses' core focus. This is ideal for small and medium-sized businesses for which an in-house CIO would be out of reach.
The Xvand team often speaks with fast-growth businesses looking for services like secure WiFi installation in Houston, Texas that recognize that a lack of strategic IT guidance is holding them back from greater success.
A vCIO offers custom recommendations, which business owners and leadership teams can take on board, analyze, and decide whether to implement–all of which we can manage on your behalf. Rather than dealing with granular aspects of your digital environment, a vCIO takes a step back to offer a broader overview, providing insights into areas such as:
Outsourcing the role of a CIO enables smaller and early-stage businesses to access this level of oversight to introduce more tech-driven processes. Reports and recommendations are broken down into simple terminology to ensure even non-technical business owners can grasp complex concepts and make informed judgments about the best way forward.
Digital investment and the agility to keep pace with changes are vital; they’re also as influential to the future prospects of many businesses as basics like IT security. Companies might initially look for antivirus and malware protection services in Houston, Texas, and then expand their assistance to include an on-demand vCIO.
There are numerous benefits that can enhance your competitive edge while helping you avoid pitfalls and overcome inefficiencies:
A vCIO service can minimize many of the risks absorbed by smaller companies, such as downtime, poor change management, low productivity levels, a lack of backup planning, and increasing overheads that can limit their ability to reinvest back into business growth.
Xvand’s vCIO service provides regular reviews of your business's technology setup, emerging challenges, or ongoing problems you'd like to manage. This ensures you take a proactive approach to tech development and improve your workflows as your business matures–all at an affordable cost.
Proposals are always tailored to your company, often beginning with strategy development to ensure all the decisions you make in the future refer back to your benchmarks, objectives, and aims. We support clients across sectors and industries, reducing the pressure and time required to conduct in-depth research into the newest tech solutions and giving you the peace of mind that you will be the first to know as new advancements become available.
A vCIO service's high-level experience may allow you to increase the lifespan of assets currently in use, lower the costs of product and system investments, or introduce new automation solutions that reduce wastage, administration time, and periods of low productivity.
Alongside these compelling benefits, companies using virtual CIO services also have greater continuity and security. Glaring vulnerabilities, such as the lack of a disaster recovery plan or proper change management, are identified, analyzed, and addressed–empowering your business to succeed.
Our clients have positive reviews of our managed technology services and solutions. Read these reviews to learn what companies love about our technology services in Houston, TX and to see if we are a good fit for your technology management needs.
“We outsourced our IT infrastructure to Xvand more than 10 years ago. Xvand is a key business partner for us, providing reliable service and excellent support. During hurricanes, the winter storm, and the pandemic, our staff had full access to our systems even when our office was closed. The Xvand team lets us focus on what we do best, confident that our IT infrastructure and support is in good hands.”
“Xvand has been an exceptional partner for our IT requirements. Their uptime guarantee and 24/7 helpdesk support ensure our business runs smoothly. Remote access allows our team to stay connected from anywhere in the world, and we can be confident our information is secure. Xvand takes care of all our IT needs so we can focus our efforts on providing the best products and services to our customers.”
“Xvand provides our company with a true partner for our IT needs, saving us time and money. JSHG has had a business relationship with Xvand since our firm had to temporarily relocate to Houston after Hurricane Katrina in 2005. Everyone at Xvand has always been quick to help and educate along the way so that we are not only getting a problem solved, we are building a partnership.”
“Our IT is critical to our success. Xvand has been an excellent partner for us, maintaining virtually 100% uptime and providing a platform for our entire staff that eliminates the need for us to worry about upgrading software or protecting against viruses or hacks. With Xvand handling our IT, we can put all of our attention and resources on serving customers. In our competitive industry, this is a critical advantage.”
Just like you, your company technology needs a check up at least quarterly. Our IT management experts will quickly and efficiently identify any significant problems with your network and security systems—for free.
If Xvand can't fully resolve all your issues and deliver the promised services within 3 months of the complete transition, we'll refund 3 months of service costs (excluding Microsoft licensing charges and other subscriptions costs). We'll also actively assist you in transitioning to another MSP at no extra cost. The only requirement for this guarantee is your full engagement in working together to address and resolve the issues. We've got your back!
