Choose between custom development, SaaS, and existing software
An SME regularly has to choose between buying software, developing a custom feature, connecting several tools, or keeping an existing system. We compare these options against the business need, required integrations, operating cost, reversibility, and expected lifespan.
A standard CRM can remain in place while a business application handles company-specific rules. A legacy ERP can be kept and connected to a portal or automation. The fractional CTO works with your teams to define the most coherent architecture and avoid rebuilding functions that are already properly covered elsewhere.
Structure security and technical continuity
We help the SME establish a foundation proportionate to its risks: MFA, SSO, access management, backups, secret management, monitoring, environment separation, release procedures, and logging of sensitive access.
Continuity is also prepared around concrete situations: a developer leaving, a provider becoming unavailable, loss of administrator access, a Cloud incident, or the need to restore data. Important access rights, technical accounts, and procedures are organized so another person can quickly take over operations.
Steer the technical budget and providers
The fractional CTO can consolidate the main technical costs: Cloud, licences, maintenance, freelancers, IT services companies, SaaS tools, hosting, and development projects. This view helps prepare an annual budget and identify expenses growing faster than their actual use.
We can also challenge provider proposals, compare architectures, or review a technical quote before commitment. The goal is to give you an interlocutor able to assess the technical content, proposed effort, dependencies created, and future maintenance costs.
Prepare the growth of the technical team
As the business grows, the SME must decide which skills to keep external and which to bring in-house. We can help define the profiles needed, their seniority, role, and hiring order, then take part in technical interviews and onboarding new employees.
The engagement can also gradually prepare the move toward internal technical leadership. Architecture, access, documentation, providers, development processes, and responsibilities are structured so a future CTO or technical lead can take over an already organized environment.
A fractional CTO to support your ongoing projects
The engagement can begin while a project is already underway: software development, application redesign, Cloud migration, ERP integration, SaaS rollout, or provider takeover.
The fractional CTO can represent your technical interests, organize trade-offs with the teams, and check that the choices made remain compatible with your information system, budget, and future business needs.
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