Switching IT providers is disruptive when done poorly. BetterWorld
Technology has a structured onboarding process built to eliminate
gaps in coverage, bring your team to full support quickly, and establish
the documentation and baseline that makes everything after easier.
Here is exactly what you can expect.
Our onboarding spans five phases over 30 to 45 days depending on your organization’s
complexity. Every phase has defined deliverables so you always know exactly where you
are and what comes next.
Your designated contacts receive immediate help desk access on day one. You are never without coverage during the transition. Emergency escalation paths are established before your previous provider is offboarded.
Your dedicated account manager and project manager conduct a welcome call within 24 hours of contract signing. We introduce the team, confirm your primary contacts, and walk through the next 30 days.
We initiate coordination with your current IT provider or internal team for structured knowledge transfer, requesting documentation, access credentials, and system inventories to eliminate transition gaps.
A structured kickoff with your leadership, IT contacts, and our project team. We confirm scope, review your technology environment, establish communication protocols, and address any open questions.
Comprehensive technical discovery of your environment including network topology, endpoint inventory, server infrastructure, cloud platforms, applications, vendors, and current security posture. This is the foundation for everything that follows.
Our Remote Monitoring and Management platform and initial security tooling are deployed to your environment, giving us visibility and beginning the monitoring that will be in place through the life of the engagement.
We assess your environment against our security baseline standards and begin implementing gaps. This includes MFA deployment, endpoint protection, patch management configuration, and initial vulnerability assessment.
We begin building your environment runbook capturing network topology, system configurations, vendor contacts, credential vault entries, escalation procedures, and recovery information. This document belongs to you.
Monitoring thresholds are configured based on your environment baseline. Alert policies, escalation rules, and response playbooks are established so our SOC team knows exactly how to respond to events in your specific environment.
For clients with HIPAA, CMMC, SOC 2, or other regulatory requirements, we conduct the initial compliance gap assessment during this phase and produce a prioritized remediation roadmap before onboarding is complete.
All staff receive help desk access, ticket portal credentials, and an onboarding communication explaining how to reach us, what services they can access, and what to expect from the relationship.
We conduct live or recorded onboarding sessions covering how to submit tickets, escalation paths, security awareness basics, and any new tools deployed during onboarding.
Your account manager conducts a separate briefing with leadership covering the monitoring posture, initial security findings, compliance status, and any open items from discovery that require attention or budget discussion.
A formal review meeting with your stakeholders covering what we discovered, what we implemented, open items, early ticket trends, and the roadmap for the first 90 days of the engagement.
Your environment runbook is complete, reviewed with your team, and stored in a location accessible to you independently of BetterWorld Technology. It is your documentation.
Monthly reporting begins at the 30-day mark covering ticket volume and resolution metrics, monitoring alerts, security posture summary, patch compliance, and open project status.
Emergency ticket access is activated on day one. You are never without support during the transition, even before full onboarding is complete.
Your environment runbook belongs to you, not to us. If you ever leave, your documentation leaves with you. No leverage, no lock-in.
Every onboarding has a dedicated project manager accountable for the timeline and proactive communication. Not a shared resource. One owner.
We do not wait for onboarding to complete before starting security controls. EDR, MFA, and monitoring deployment begins in week one.
Weekly status updates throughout onboarding with clear visibility into what is complete, what is in progress, and what is coming next.
If we discover something during discovery that needs attention, you hear about it immediately. Not in a report 30 days later.
Talk to a BetterWorld Technology advisor about what onboarding looks like for your
specific organization, environment, and timeline.