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Bridge Technology and Business Strategy with Advisors Who Have Built the Stack

Maturity assessments, technology roadmaps, M&A integration, and organizational change management delivered by practitioners who run 24/7 IT and security operations every day.

Experience
Since 2007
Overview

What you get with Virteva

With Virteva you get more than a consultant. You get advocates and educators who help you build and grow a technology-enabled organization. Our advisory team will not shy away from difficult conversations. We identify the core purpose of your business and keep it at the center of decision-making throughout the engagement, rooted in 19 years of mid-market practitioner experience rather than abstract framework theory.

The advisory practice rests on three pillars: a superior approach to execution, deep business process expertise across Lean Six Sigma, ITIL, OCM, and SecOps, and strategic thinking that tells you where you are today, what your next move is, and what tomorrow needs to look like. Engagements range from IT maturity assessments and technology roadmaps to M&A integration planning, Microsoft 365 adoption strategy, and organizational change management. For ongoing security leadership beyond a project engagement, many clients graduate into our virtual CISO services.

Because Virteva also runs 24/7 managed IT services, security operations, and infrastructure for clients across the Midwest, our advisors are practitioners. The roadmap they write is the roadmap our delivery teams execute every day. That means the recommendations are grounded in what actually deploys cleanly, what generates real adoption, and what holds up in production. Hand the plan to your internal team, to a third party, or to Virteva managed services. The roadmap is yours either way.

The problem we solve

IT challenges that hold growing companies back

The Challenge
  • Leadership wants a multi-year IT plan but the team is too deep in tickets to write one
  • Microsoft 365 licenses are mostly unused and nobody owns the adoption story
  • A merger or acquisition is closing and the IT integration plan is a blank document
  • Technical debt keeps accumulating without a defensible prioritization framework
  • A new IT leader needs a baseline of where things really stand, fast
The Virteva Approach
  • IT maturity assessment delivered in weeks, not quarters, with prioritized recommendations
  • Roadmap and business case built around your industry, your size, and your Microsoft footprint
  • Practitioners who also run 24/7 service desk, security operations, and infrastructure
  • Organizational change management built into every engagement so adoption sticks
  • Hand-off ready: same team can execute the roadmap as a managed service if you want
57 to 70%
is the Microsoft Secure Score lift Intricon achieved within a year of starting with a Virteva IT maturity assessment. The advisory engagement is where the roadmap, the business case, and the prioritization come from before any tools get deployed.
What's included

Everything you need to run IT right

Every engagement includes these core capabilities, configured for your environment and backed by contractual SLAs.

IT Maturity Assessment
Comprehensive evaluation of your IT landscape, surfacing strengths, technical debt, and prioritized recommendations. The same engagement that gave Intricon a defensible roadmap and a 57 to 70% Secure Score lift.
Technology Roadmap & Strategy
Multi-year technology roadmap tied to business goals, with a clear sequence of investments, a CFO-ready business case, and quarterly checkpoints to keep momentum.
M&A IT Integration
Pre-close diligence, day-one playbooks, and post-close integration planning. Identify systems to consolidate, security risks to mitigate, and the path to a single Microsoft and ServiceNow footprint.
Microsoft 365 Adoption Strategy
Get more value from licenses you already own. Workshop-driven adoption planning across Teams, SharePoint, Intune, Purview, Defender, and Copilot, backed by Microsoft Solutions Partner credentials.
Organizational Change Management
OCM discipline applied to every engagement so adoption expectations are met and exceeded. Communications, training, and stakeholder alignment built into the project plan, not bolted on at the end.
LogicMonitor & Observability Strategy
Design a monitoring and observability stack that fits your environment, then deploy it through proven Virteva playbooks. Visibility into infrastructure health stops being a quarterly fire drill.
How it works

From first call to ongoing partnership

01
Discovery & Assessment
We audit your current Microsoft and ServiceNow environment, document every system, and identify gaps, risks, and quick wins.
02
Custom Proposal
You get a fixed-scope proposal tied to your business goals. Named SLAs by ticket priority. No surprises, no hidden costs.
03
Migration & Onboarding
Our team handles the transition with zero disruption. We migrate, configure, and validate before going live.
04
Ongoing Partnership
24/7 support, proactive monitoring, quarterly reviews, and strategic advisory. We grow with you, not just support you.
Client spotlight

See how it plays out in practice

Medical Device Manufacturing
Intricon IT maturity assessment becomes the canonical roadmap for a 57 to 70% Secure Score lift
Challenge
A newly appointed IT director inherited multiple MSPs, limited Microsoft 365 adoption, and a 24x7x365 global operation with no defensible roadmap. Leadership needed an experienced partner to baseline the environment and recommend a thoughtful path forward.
Solution
Virteva delivered a comprehensive IT maturity assessment that gave leadership in-depth evaluation and prioritized recommendations. The roadmap drove provider consolidation, Service Desk and End-User Computing onboarding, and phased Managed Security and Infrastructure deployment. Intune, Purview, Defender, and ServiceNow followed.
Read full case study
57→70%
Microsoft Secure Score lifted in under a year
Frequently asked

Common questions

A structured evaluation of your IT landscape across service delivery, infrastructure, end-user computing, security, and Microsoft 365 adoption. You get a written report with strengths, gaps, and prioritized recommendations, plus a roadmap and business case ready to take to leadership or the board. Most assessments wrap in 4 to 6 weeks.

We are practitioners, not pure consultants. Our advisors run a 24/7 service desk, a SOC, and infrastructure operations every day, so the recommendations come from people who know what actually deploys and what bogs down. Mid-market clients get senior advisory talent without Big 4 bench rates.

Yes. As a Microsoft Solutions Partner across Modern Work and Security, we map current licensing against actual usage and your security risk profile. Many clients save meaningful spend by right-sizing E3 versus E5, retiring redundant third-party tools, and consolidating add-ons.

Yes. We support pre-close diligence, day-one playbooks, and post-close integration. The deliverable is a sequenced plan covering identity, endpoint, security, applications, and service delivery, with risk-rated decisions for leadership. We can also execute the integration as a managed service.

Advisory engagements are typically project-based: an assessment, a roadmap, an M&A integration plan, a Microsoft 365 adoption program. Virtual CISO is an ongoing fractional security executive relationship. Many clients start with an advisory project and graduate into a vCISO retainer once the program needs continuous leadership.

Yes. Virteva is a full-service managed IT and security provider, so the same team that wrote the roadmap can deploy and operate the result. Or we can hand the roadmap to your internal team or a third party and stay involved as advisors. Your call.

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