IT Consulting Services to Overcome Any Technology Challenge

Businesses hire IT consulting firms like Astute Technology Management to help them embrace new workflows and productivity, streamline their network technology, launch IT projects with profound confidence, create a more mobile workforce, and more.

For over 20 years, we’ve been working hard to make business across Ohio operate better with our IT consulting services.

Businesses often have a clear project or goal in mind before they reach out to speak with us. But other times, they might not understand exactly what an IT consultant can brings to the table, or whether it’s better to go it alone.

Expertise on Demand
Is your small internal IT team struggling with an upcoming project that they don’t have the expertise to complete. From budgeting and planning to hardware procurement and engineering support, the Astute technology Management team provides on-demand knowledge whenever you need.

Embrace the Latest Technologies
Curious about “digital transformation” like cloud computing, mobile devices, and artificial intelligence, but leery how a small or midsized business like yours can make the most of it? We’ll help you find and exploit those opportunities.

IT Projects Done On-Budget, On-Time
Complex IT projects that can quickly exhaust a modest IT budget. With our help, we’ll help you get the lowest possible price on the hardware you need and complete your project without budget overruns or unexpected expenses.

Business leaders who hear the term “IT consulting,” often think of Deloitte and McKinsey, but we’ve built our business solutions to address the specific problems that growing businesses in Ohio face.

We offer world-class IT expertise delivered by a friendly team of local professionals, who always speak to you in straightforward plain English.

IT Strategy & Planning
Businesses that lack a long-term IT strategy are leaving money productivity and cost savins on the table. The Astute Technology Management team will sit down with your leaders and work out a strategy that ensures long-term competitiveness.

Cloud Computing Migrations
Cloud has transformed the way that small and midsized businesses work, communicate, and collaborate. To get the most of your investment, our cloud engineers will analysis your operations and get you on the right path.

Server Migrations and Upgrades
We provide a range of specialized maintenance services for your on-premise servers, including upgrades, replacements, and migrations, helping to minimize downtime and ensure strong performance.

Network Cabling
Frustrated by poor cabling your office or server room. The right cabling, done by a team of experts, can make your office a more enjoyable place to work, improve regular maintenance tasks, and improve safety.

Maybe you don’t feel that you need a fully managed cybersecurity solution, but you’re worried that cybersecurity intrusion, ransomware, phishing attacks, and threats from the dark web could undermine the productivity of your business, or wors.

The Astute Technology Management team will perform a comprehensive cybersecurity risk audit to help you find where you’re vulnerable and how you should spend your limited security budget.

Here are just some of the elements that would include:

Network Scanning
Specialized tools allow us to find unpatched software on your network and other vulnerabilities.

Network Policy Audit
Does your company have the right rules and guidelines to ensure that only authorized individuals are accessing sensitive data?

Access Controls and Authentication Audit
We’ll examine your two-factor authentication system and other digital and physical access controls to ensure unwanted elements are being kept out.

Firewall Audit
Having firewalls in place is important to network perimeter defense, but only if your policies and rules are configured correctly.

Struggling with HIPAA, PCI-DSS, FINRA/SEC, or another regulatory compliance standard? Let the consulting team at Astute Technology clarify your shortfalls and design a clear, actionable plan for bringing your data security controls in-line with the latest standards.

Businesses that want a seasoned IT consultant to help guide their strategy over the long term look to our vCIO team for help.

For a fraction of the cost of hiring a chief information officer (CIO), you get an IT consultant who will sit down and have regular meetings with your business leaders.

During those meetings, we’ll listen to the latest news in your business, learn about your goals, and help you strategize a way to align your IT and business goals.

The Benefits of Business-IT Alignment
What does it mean when you have your business and IT in alignment? It doesn’t just mean having the right technology for the staff—though that’s a big part. It also means using technology to bring your business strategy, operations, finances, and risk management processes into lockstep.

It’s a holistic, organization-wide concept that pays huge dividends when it’s done right. Some of those benefits include:

If you want to learn more, you can read this article we wrote on business-IT alignment, and why it’s so important for small and midsized businesses.

When you hire Astute Technology Management as a technology consulting services firm, the engagement is a one-time, flat rate project engagement. That means pre-defined scope or work, toward a very specific goal.

That’s different than the managed IT services that we offer, which are all-inclusive IT management solutions that arm you with all the support your business needs to thrive.

Have a question about which one is right for your business? Reach out and talk to our friendly team at today. We’d be happy to find the right solution to your problem.