Mason IT consulting firm Afidence's expertise in saving companies money through increased efficiency has helped this young company grow in just a few short months.
Afidence President Bryan Hogan started the company as a spinoff from Ray & Barney Group, an IT recruiting and consulting company based in Columbus. Hogan co-owned the Columbus company and bought out the consulting portion, opening an office in the Cincinnati area where he lives.
Afidence advises clients on how to best use IT to improve efficiency and the bottom line. The company works with a variety of large and small companies but has a large number of clients in the higher education and health care sectors.
Afidence doesn't promote or sell hardware or software, but its employees have expertise in more than a dozen programs including Microsoft Exchange, Cisco, Blackberry, Citrix, K2 automation, WMware virtualization and Windows 7.
Afidence's key focus areas include backup, disaster recovery, and business continuity, IT planning, strategy, and business goals alignment, business process automation and workflow, document, data, and content management, workforce planning and project management among others.
Hogan brought several employees from his former company, starting out with 15 when Afidence opened its doors in January 2010. The company has since hired three employees and could hire up to four more by year's end, he said.
Source: Bryan Hogan, Afidence
Writer: Feoshia Henderson