Technology & IT: find professionals

Technology and IT covers IT support and managed service providers, cybersecurity and cloud consultants, software and mobile app developers, AI consultants, CRM consultants for platforms such as Salesforce and HubSpot, data consultants and systems integrators.

For day-to-day IT, businesses usually choose between help-desk support when something breaks and a managed service that looks after devices, networks, backups and security on an ongoing basis. Development and consulting work is normally scoped as a project: a new app, a move to the cloud, a CRM setup or a reporting dashboard.

Ask how support requests are handled and how quickly, who can access your systems, and how your data is protected, including where it is stored and what happens to it when the contract ends. For development projects, agree who owns the code and the accounts before work starts, and never share passwords by email or through a web form.