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We plan your IT three years ahead.

Roadmaps, budgets, procurement and vendor selection, written in plain English with a cost and a date against each recommendation. The advice comes from Evolve Technologies, a Southport managed service provider founded in 1993, with clients on the Gold Coast, in Brisbane and in Toowoomba.

Deliverables

We put a price and a date on each recommendation.

Each recommendation names the product, the price and the date we suggest doing it by.

Technology roadmap
A three-year plan for the environment, sequenced against business milestones and budget cycles, with each item costed and dated.
Budget & forecasting
Capital-versus-operational splits, licence renewal timing and hardware refresh cycles, checked against what you spent last year.
Procurement advice
Independent advice before you buy hardware, software or services, covering which option fits the requirement and how much of the quote is vendor margin.
Vendor evaluation
RFP response review, due diligence on shortlisted vendors and support in the commercial negotiation before you sign.
Compliance & risk review
Privacy obligations, industry regulations, insurer requirements and cybersecurity baselines, mapped against your current settings with a ranked list of the gaps to close.
Strategic reviews
Managed-service clients get a standing review with their leadership to walk through the roadmap, the budget and anything shifting in their industry.
Independent & vendor-neutral

We take no commission from any vendor.

No referral fee, reseller rebate or kickback changes which platform goes into a recommendation.

The platforms we recommend are ones we run ourselves or for other clients. A recommendation against a platform comes with the reasons in the same document.

The document

Each engagement ends with a written document.

The document covers the findings, the recommendations, the cost and benefit of each item and the order to do them in.

The order is set by risk and by dependency, so the items that unblock others come first.

Your industry

We already support clients in six industries.

For legal, medical, construction, accounting, strata and automotive clients, the compliance frameworks and the software are ones we already support.

The roadmap is timed around the peaks in that industry, such as EOFY for an accounting practice or quarter-end for a strata manager.

Case studies

Each of these projects started from a costed recommendation.

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Automotive

$1.5 million saved on carrier bills for an automotive group

A large automotive group was paying Telstra bills that one internal attempt and one with another provider had failed to reduce. We ran an Evaluation across the whole carrier footprint (mobile fleet, data links, PABX services, voice trunks) and found duplicate services, over-provisioned plans and legacy rates that had not been renegotiated in years. We then worked with the carriers to halve the group's fees and secure backdated credits, and set up a standing strategic review of new services and renewals.

Read the full story: $1.5 million saved on carrier bills for an automotive group
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Manufacturing

90 workstations replaced in waves at Tuff Group

Tuff Group makes custom 4WD and truck accessories in Toowoomba and Brisbane. Its workstation fleet had been slowing for years, and replacing it meant swapping 90 devices on factory floors and in offices without stopping the production line. We costed the slowdown for management at roughly 13 minutes per staff member per day, recommended hardware we had already run at similar manufacturing sites, took delivery of all 90 units up front and stored them on site, and deployed them in waves set by Tuff's production schedule, with the last wave in before the Christmas slowdown.

Read the full story: 90 workstations replaced in waves at Tuff Group
FAQ

Price and independence lead the strategy questions.

What is an Evolve Technologies Evaluation, and how much does it cost?
An Evaluation is our paid IT review. A senior engineer carries it out and writes a report and strategy covering hardware, cloud, services and software, telephony, security, and networks. Pricing starts from $1,500+GST depending on the complexity of your environment. If you proceed to Managed Services, the Evaluation fee is credited to your first month.
Which vendors does Evolve Technologies work with?
Evolve Technologies works mainly with Microsoft, Sophos, Lenovo, Veeam, 1Password, Yealink and Cisco. Existing contracts or a preference for another vendor are worked into the plan.
Can Evolve Technologies buy hardware and licences for us?
Evolve Technologies sources hardware, software licensing and service contracts on your behalf, often at better rates than retail, and the warranty and vendor calls go through us afterwards.
Can Evolve Technologies reduce our Telstra or carrier bill?
Often, yes. Evolve Technologies reviews every carrier service a business pays for, retires duplicates, right-sizes plans and renegotiates legacy rates. One automotive group has saved over $1.5 million to date after one internal attempt and one with another provider had stalled. A carrier review can run on its own or as part of an Evaluation.
Does Evolve Technologies provide a virtual CIO or IT strategy service?
IT strategy and consulting from Evolve Technologies covers a costed three-year technology roadmap, budget and forecast, procurement and vendor evaluation, and a compliance and risk review for Gold Coast, Brisbane and Toowoomba businesses. The findings are written down.
Is Evolve Technologies' advice independent of vendors?
Evolve Technologies takes no commission or kickbacks from vendors. The platforms we recommend are ones we run ourselves or for other clients. Most strategy work starts with an Evaluation, our written IT review.

Industries we know inside out.

Construction
We link site offices to head office and manage the tablets that run Procore, Bluebeam and Framework.
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Legal
LawMaster and LEAP run on servers and a Microsoft 365 tenancy we manage, with the matter files backed up.
Industry page
Medical
Best Practice and Medical Director are supported with maintenance booked outside clinic hours.
Industry page

Have a roadmap drawn up for your business.

An Evaluation of what you run today is where our strategy work starts. It costs from $1,500 +GST, and the fee is credited to your first month if you come on board.

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