IT services means more than fixing what is broken. Hexafusion delivers strategic IT for North Vancouver businesses: a written 12-month technology roadmap, vCIO advisory at the leadership table, project delivery you can budget against, and a baseline of operations that keeps the lights on while you focus on growth. We cover Lower Lonsdale (LoLo), Central Lonsdale, Upper Lonsdale, Lynn Valley, Deep Cove, Edgemont Village, Capilano, Norgate, the Lions Gate Hospital corridor, and the Shipyards District.
Hexafusion at a glance for North Vancouver businesses. Vancouver-based since 2020 · downtown office at 997 Seymour Street · Dell authorized reseller · Microsoft Solutions Partner · founder is a former PCI DSS Internal Security Assessor · strategic vCIO and quarterly business reviews included on Professional and Enterprise plans · flat-rate managed plans with a 15-minute initial ticket response · bridge-aware on-site coverage for the North Shore.
Technology Roadmap
12 to 36 month plan, refreshed every quarter.
vCIO Cadence
Quarterly business reviews with leadership, monthly check-ins with operations.
Project Delivery
Scoped, fixed-price projects with named PM and weekly status.
Coverage Areas
Lower Lonsdale, Central Lonsdale, Upper Lonsdale, Lynn Valley, Deep Cove, Edgemont, Capilano, Norgate, Blueridge, Seymour Heights, Maplewood
What Strategic IT Services Includes in North Vancouver
Strategic IT is the layer above the helpdesk. It is what determines whether your technology supports growth or quietly limits it. Each service below is delivered by named people on a documented cadence, not on request.
Technology Roadmap and Budget
A written 12 to 36 month plan covering hardware lifecycle, software renewals, security investments, cloud migrations, and headcount-driven capacity. Refreshed quarterly and re-baselined annually so finance can budget with confidence.
vCIO Advisory
A virtual Chief Information Officer at the leadership table. We attend your strategic planning, translate business goals into technology decisions, and present to boards or investors when needed. Included on Professional and Enterprise plans.
Project Delivery
Office buildouts in Lower Lonsdale or the Shipyards, server-room moves, Microsoft 365 migrations, ERP rollouts, AV refresh, and Wi-Fi redesigns. Scoped up front, fixed-price, with a named project manager and a weekly status report you can forward.
Vendor and Contract Management
We hold the relationships with your ISP, telecom, line-of-business software vendors, and hardware distribution. One throat to choke when things break, and one team negotiating renewals on your behalf.
Quarterly Business Reviews
Real strategic reports: engagement health score, financial recap, project status, renewal calendar, and an AI-summarised executive paragraph delivered as a PDF every quarter. See the QBR page for a worked example.
Operational Baseline Included
Strategic IT does not work without solid operations underneath it. Helpdesk, 24/7 monitoring, EDR, managed backup, and bridge-aware on-site support are all included on the same flat-rate plan, not a separate contract.
Industries We Plan With in North Vancouver
North Vancouver's industry mix runs from waterfront tech startups in Lower Lonsdale to specialty clinics near Lions Gate Hospital, outdoor and sportswear design houses, post-production studios, and the tourism operators behind Grouse Mountain and Capilano Suspension Bridge. The roadmap reflects that, not a generic template.
Tech Startups and Software
Lower Lonsdale and Central Lonsdale early-stage companies need IT that scales with engineering headcount and satisfies enterprise-customer security questionnaires. SOC 2 readiness on the roadmap from day one.
Outdoor and Sportswear
ERP and PLM integration, seasonal capacity planning around ski and outdoor cycles, retail-and-wholesale channel mix, and supply-chain security questionnaires for the dense outdoor-industry cluster anchored by Arc'teryx.
Healthcare and Clinics
EMR roadmaps, multi-site clinic standardisation, and BC PIPA-aware planning for the dense specialty-clinic concentration adjacent to Lions Gate Hospital and along Central Lonsdale.
Tourism and Recreation
Seasonal-load planning, point-of-sale lifecycle, ticketing-platform integrations, and Wi-Fi for high-visitor venues from Grouse Mountain to Capilano Suspension Bridge, Mount Seymour, and Lynn Canyon Park.
Film and Post-Production
High-throughput storage, colour-managed workflows, render pipelines, and tight delivery deadlines for post houses operating across the North Shore and into Lynnmour and Maplewood.
Professional and Boutique Services
Accounting, legal, and consulting firms in Central Lonsdale and Edgemont Village need roadmaps for matter management, document-management refresh, and client-portal modernisation.
Compliance-Ready IT Baseline for North Vancouver Businesses
Every North Vancouver business we onboard receives a documented security baseline aligned to the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security baseline controls and the requirements your cyber insurance carrier is asking about on renewal questionnaires. This is the same baseline we apply to our own infrastructure, not a stripped-down small-business version.
Identity and access. Microsoft Entra ID with Conditional Access policies, multi-factor authentication (MFA) enforcement on every account, and compliant-device sign-in checks.
Endpoint protection. Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) on every Windows, Mac, and mobile device, deployed and active before the user receives the laptop.
Disk encryption. BitLocker on Windows and FileVault on Mac, key-escrowed centrally so a lost device does not become a data breach.
Email hardening. SPF, DKIM, and DMARC alignment plus anti-phishing and impersonation-protection rules tuned to your industry.
Backup and recovery. Managed backups with documented retention and quarterly restore tests so you know recovery actually works before an incident.
BC PIPA and PIPEDA aware. Audit logging, role-based access, and breach-notification process documentation kept up to date with the current Office of the Privacy Commissioner of Canada guidance.
Hardware Procurement and Lifecycle Planning in North Vancouver
Hexafusion operates as a Dell authorized reseller and full-service IT supplier for North Vancouver businesses, with access to authorized Canadian distribution channels for Lenovo, Apple, Microsoft Surface, and networking gear from Cisco Meraki, Fortinet, SonicWall, Ubiquiti, Aruba, and Juniper. Procurement is part of the roadmap, not a one-off sales transaction. Every laptop, server, and switch is on a documented lifecycle so the next refresh is budgeted before it is urgent.
At end-of-life we handle decommissioning with the same discipline as deployment. Drive sanitisation follows NIST Special Publication 800-88 guidelines, every retired device generates a serial-numbered certificate of destruction for your PIPEDA breach-notification record-keeping, and devices beyond economic refurbishment are recycled through programs accredited by the Electronic Products Recycling Association (EPRA Canada).
Who you actually work with in North Vancouver
Hexafusion is led by founder Alex Barari, a former PCI DSS Internal Security Assessor with 15+ years in enterprise IT and cybersecurity. Strategic engagements are led personally, not delegated to a junior account manager reading a deck written somewhere else. The same team that builds your roadmap reviews the alerts at 2 a.m. and shows up on-site at your Lower Lonsdale or Lynn Valley office when a project crosses the line from remote to hands-on.
Our quarterly business review (QBR) is a real strategic report, not a generic newsletter: engagement health score, financial recap, onboarding progress, renewal calendar, and an AI-summarised executive paragraph delivered as a PDF to every client at the end of every calendar quarter. See the QBR page for a worked example.
Why North Vancouver businesses choose Hexafusion for IT services
Strategy with operations. A roadmap is worthless if the helpdesk is broken. Both come on one flat-rate plan.
Named vCIO. Leadership knows who is accountable for the technology agenda, not just who is on call.
Bridge-aware coverage. Dispatch windows for North Shore clients account for Lions Gate and Second Narrows congestion. The SeaBus is a documented same-day contingency.
Project discipline. Fixed-price scopes, weekly status, and post-mortems on every project. No mystery invoices.
Vendor consolidation. We hold the contracts with ISP, telco, software, and hardware so leadership stops being a switchboard.
Outcome reporting. Every QBR ties IT spend back to business outcomes leadership cares about.
Get a strategic IT quote for your North Vancouver business
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Strategic IT delivery commitments for North Vancouver
Roadmap refresh
Every quarter
The 12 to 36 month plan is reviewed and updated every quarter at the QBR, with annual re-baselining tied to your fiscal year.
Project scoping
5 business days
From request to a written, fixed-price scope with assumptions, milestones, and a named project manager. No open-ended time and materials.
QBR cadence
Every 90 days
In-person at your North Vancouver office or remote, leadership-level, with a PDF report delivered ahead of the meeting.
Initial ticket response
Within 15 minutes
Operational baseline still applies. Every ticket is acknowledged by a real engineer within 15 minutes during contracted coverage hours.
Roadmap refresh and QBR cadence apply to Professional and Enterprise plans. Project scoping windows are targets and depend on response speed from your team and any third-party vendors involved. Fixed-price project scopes are built on documented assumptions; out-of-scope work is quoted separately before it is executed. On-site dispatch windows for North Vancouver account for Lions Gate and Second Narrows bridge conditions.
Related Hexafusion resources
Sibling North Vancouver pages and deep-dive cluster pages on strategic IT topics referenced above.