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"twitter:title": "Avepto, IT partner for Swiss SMEs" --- # Avepto, IT company in Geneva and managed IT provider across French-speaking Switzerland ![Focused employee at her Apple workstation](https://avepto.ch/cdn-cgi/image/w=1920,q=60,f=auto/https://assets.avepto.ch/brand-film/v1/73aa56da40d819d690e769a87aa448ce.webp) [IT that works for your business.](https://avepto.ch/en/managed-it) Focus on your business Workstations, servers, email and backups: your whole IT estate is taken care of. Sorted before it stops you Your systems are monitored continuously, with fixes applied ahead of the incident. A team that knows your estate Every intervention is documented. The people you reach already know where you stand. GE Based in Satigny Offices in the canton of Geneva OS Mac & Windows Workstations and servers FR Local support Multilingual team CH French-speaking Switzerland On-site across the region Managed IT Swiss IT Provider ### Managed IT We take care of all your IT from our Geneva offices: computers, servers, user accounts, backups. Your teams get on with their work, with no need to think about the technical side. At any moment, you know what’s running, what’s been done, and what still needs doing. [View managed IT](https://avepto.ch/en/managed-it) - [IT Fleet Your Windows and Mac computers are kept up to date, secured, and monitored at all times. You no longer need to ask your teams to install updates. ](https://avepto.ch/en/managed-it/it-support) - [Apple at Work Your Apple devices are configured automatically the moment they’re first switched on. A new employee opens the box, turns on their Mac, and everything is ready. ](https://avepto.ch/en/managed-it/apple) - [Data Backup Your data is backed up securely. Integrity checks and up-to-date documentation ensure that if something goes wrong, you recover your data within the agreed timeframe. ](https://avepto.ch/en/managed-it/backups) Detection and Response IT Security ### Cybersecurity Your systems are monitored continuously, at night and at weekends as well as during the day. A critical alert triggers an immediate response from our team, at any hour. Routine requests, on the other hand, are handled during business hours. You stay compliant with Swiss requirements, without having to become a cybersecurity expert. [View cybersecurity](https://avepto.ch/en/cybersecurity) - [Firewall Management We monitor your network access day and night and review your security rules regularly. No more forgotten settings piling up over the years. ](https://avepto.ch/en/cybersecurity/networks) - [Disaster Recovery If something goes wrong, your essential services are back up and running in hours, not weeks. We agree the order and the timeframe with you, per activity. We test that scenario regularly and document every process. ](https://avepto.ch/en/cybersecurity/disaster-recovery) - [Identity Management Your employees sign in to all their applications with a single account, secured by two-step verification. A sign-in from an unusual location? It calls for one more check. ](https://avepto.ch/en/cybersecurity/identity) - [Real-Time Monitoring We watch your system live and flag abnormal behaviour. You receive only the alerts that truly matter, paired with our response. ](https://avepto.ch/en/cybersecurity/antivirus) Collaboration Email & Business Phone ### One shared workspace Your email, your phone, your remote access, all managed by a single team. Your employees have the right tools, your licences are optimised, and your invoices stay stable from one quarter to the next. No more software paid for twice, no more duplicates no one uses. [View Productivity](https://avepto.ch/en/productivity) - [Cloud Phone System Your existing phone numbers are kept and moved to the cloud. Your employees make calls from their computer or their mobile, wherever they are. ](https://avepto.ch/en/productivity/voip) - [Secure Remote Access Your teams reach your files and applications from home or on the move, in complete security. Every connection is tracked and controlled. ](https://avepto.ch/en/productivity/vpn) - [Microsoft 365 We manage your entire Microsoft 365 environment: email, shared files, meetings, storage. Everything works together, without demanding your attention. ](https://avepto.ch/en/productivity/microsoft-365) - [Infomaniak kSuite Work together on a Swiss cloud: shared files, video meetings and email, hosted by a Geneva-based provider. ](https://avepto.ch/en/productivity/ksuite) Our clients. Their professions. ## A few clients, a few professions. From architecture to dental care, we shape our support around the constraints specific to each trade. Architecture ### ai4 Architecture Architecture and interior design across Geneva, Lausanne and Porto. Residential and mixed-use projects, from concept through to execution detail. ![ai4 Architecture]() Transport & logistics ### TLC SA Transportation and logistics consulting firm based in Eysins. Freight forwarding, customs clearance and marine operations for the energy, resources and construction industries. ![TLC SA](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/tlc.Qde72ThF.svg) Design & communication ### Bontron & Co Geneva-based studio for graphic design and visual communication. Brand identity, print, signage and campaigns for leading Swiss Romand institutions. ![Bontron \& Co](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/bontron.VUw-gOkR.svg) Dental practice ### Niho Dental practice in Geneva, across from Cornavin station. General care, hygiene, paediatric dentistry and emergencies, in a calm and attentive setting. ![Niho](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/niho.Bf2Mf64f.svg) Branding & design ### Hymn Design SA Branding agency based in Lausanne, active in Switzerland and internationally. Brand identity, design strategy and visual communication for established and emerging brands. ![Hymn Design SA](data:image/svg+xml,%3csvg%20xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2000/svg'%20viewBox='0%200%201943.47%20629.56'%3e%3cpath%20fill='currentColor'%20d='M1600.58%20510.48V127.67h75.02v45.92c6.17-8.3%2013.13-15.98%2020.79-22.92%207.64-6.91%2016.16-12.78%2025.5-17.56%209.33-5%2019.77-8.82%2031.23-11.46%2011.68-2.87%2024.61-4.34%2038.72-4.34%2023.22%200%2043.5%203.82%2060.99%2011.46%2017.49%207.42%2032.04%2018.3%2043.79%2032.62%2011.76%2014.11%2020.43%2031.3%2026.16%2051.65%205.95%2020.35%208.96%2043.28%208.96%2068.92v228.51h-75.02V297.68c0-18.88-1.91-35.64-5.73-50.26-3.6-14.62-9.18-26.82-16.83-36.59a70.61%2070.61%200%200%200-28.36-22.26c-11.24-5.29-24.54-7.86-39.82-7.86s-28.58%202.65-39.82%207.86a72.871%2072.871%200%200%200-28.36%2022.26c-7.42%209.77-13.01%2021.97-16.83%2036.59-3.6%2014.62-5.36%2031.3-5.36%2050.26v212.79h-75.02ZM947.38%20510.48V127.67h74.95v45.92c6.17-8.3%2013.13-15.98%2020.79-22.92%207.64-6.91%2016.16-12.78%2025.5-17.56%209.33-5%2019.77-8.82%2031.23-11.46%2011.76-2.87%2024.61-4.34%2038.72-4.34%2029.9%200%2054.89%206.25%2075.02%2018.66%2020.35%2012.2%2035.78%2029.54%2046.29%2052.02%208.89-12.71%2018.15-23.44%2027.99-32.26%2010.07-8.82%2020.57-16.16%2031.59-21.9%2011.23-5.73%2023.16-9.95%2035.49-12.56%2012.64-2.65%2025.94-3.97%2039.82-3.97%2023.44%200%2043.79%203.82%2060.99%2011.46%2017.49%207.42%2032.04%2018.3%2043.79%2032.62%2011.68%2014.11%2020.43%2031.3%2026.16%2051.65s8.6%2043.28%208.6%2068.92v228.51h-75.02V297.67c0-18.88-1.91-35.64-5.73-50.26-3.6-14.62-9.18-26.82-16.9-36.59a70.61%2070.61%200%200%200-28.36-22.26c-11.24-5.29-24.54-7.86-39.82-7.86s-28.58%202.65-39.82%207.86c-11.24%205-20.57%2012.42-27.99%2022.26-7.42%209.77-13.08%2021.97-16.83%2036.59-3.6%2014.62-5.36%2031.3-5.36%2050.26v212.79h-75.02V297.67c0-18.88-1.91-35.64-5.73-50.26-3.6-14.62-9.18-26.82-16.83-36.59a70.61%2070.61%200%200%200-28.36-22.26c-11.24-5.29-24.54-7.86-39.82-7.86s-28.58%202.65-39.82%207.86a72.871%2072.871%200%200%200-28.36%2022.26c-7.42%209.77-13.01%2021.97-16.83%2036.59-3.6%2014.62-5.36%2031.3-5.36%2050.26v212.79H947.4ZM579.34%20615.56l65.98-129.17-166.5-358.72H557l128.07%20280.16L828.2%20127.67h77.88L657.07%20615.62h-77.88l.15-.07ZM11.73%20510.48V13.93h77.88v210.95h267.97V13.93h77.88v496.55h-77.88V292.7H89.62v217.78H11.73Z'%3e%3c/path%3e%3c/svg%3e) Film production ### Pain Fromage Audiovisual production studio in Lausanne. From scriptwriting to editing, moving images for major Swiss brands. ![Pain Fromage](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/painfromage.CfHoGbZc.svg) Regional development ### ARCAM Association for the Cossonay-Aubonne-Morges region. It brings together the district’s municipalities and supports the local economy, from project leaders to established companies. ![ARCAM](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/arcam.wtXuU9DP.svg) Methodology and process ## Everything that keeps your business running without friction. 01 ### Assessment Initial audit Your infrastructure is reviewed in detail. Workstations, servers, access rights, backups, network. We map what works, what is wearing out, and what deserves better. No rush, just clarity. 02 ### Action plan Planning A clear plan, calibrated to your business, your pace and your budget. What answers your needs is included, each line itemized and justified. You stay in control of priorities and timing throughout the project. 03 ### Deployment Implementation Tools, protections and automations are rolled out in stages. Cutovers are scheduled outside your peak hours. Your teams keep working as usual, with no interruption to ongoing operations. 04 ### Monitoring Ongoing Your infrastructure is monitored day and night. Updates run quietly while your teams sleep. Anomalies are handled before they become outages. You work, and the rest just keeps running. 05 ### Optimisation Continuous Optimisation runs without interruption. Performance is measured and tuned in real time. The small daily frictions are fixed before they grow into the kind of thing that disrupts your work. ![Apple](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/apple.C_mezfpY.svg)![Cloudflare](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/cloudflare.dUm6IxRa.svg)![Microsoft](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/microsoft.DUrbL_2n.svg)![Infomaniak](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/infomaniak.BdYJSziN.svg)![Synology](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/synology.CWJ-OkDZ.svg)![Yeastar](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/yeastar.DUWYCy51.svg)![Fortinet](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/fortinet.BVt7gKvL.svg) ![Apple](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/apple.C_mezfpY.svg)![Cloudflare](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/cloudflare.dUm6IxRa.svg)![Microsoft](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/microsoft.DUrbL_2n.svg)![Infomaniak](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/infomaniak.BdYJSziN.svg)![Synology](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/synology.CWJ-OkDZ.svg)![Yeastar](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/yeastar.DUWYCy51.svg)![Fortinet](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/fortinet.BVt7gKvL.svg) ![Apple](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/apple.C_mezfpY.svg)![Cloudflare](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/cloudflare.dUm6IxRa.svg)![Microsoft](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/microsoft.DUrbL_2n.svg)![Infomaniak](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/infomaniak.BdYJSziN.svg)![Synology](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/synology.CWJ-OkDZ.svg)![Yeastar](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/yeastar.DUWYCy51.svg)![Fortinet](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/fortinet.BVt7gKvL.svg) ![Apple](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/apple.C_mezfpY.svg)![Cloudflare](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/cloudflare.dUm6IxRa.svg)![Microsoft](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/microsoft.DUrbL_2n.svg)![Infomaniak](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/infomaniak.BdYJSziN.svg)![Synology](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/synology.CWJ-OkDZ.svg)![Yeastar](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/yeastar.DUWYCy51.svg)![Fortinet](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/fortinet.BVt7gKvL.svg) ![Apple](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/apple.C_mezfpY.svg)![Cloudflare](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/cloudflare.dUm6IxRa.svg)![Microsoft](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/microsoft.DUrbL_2n.svg)![Infomaniak](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/infomaniak.BdYJSziN.svg)![Synology](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/synology.CWJ-OkDZ.svg)![Yeastar](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/yeastar.DUWYCy51.svg)![Fortinet](https://avepto.ch/_nuxt/fortinet.BVt7gKvL.svg) - Apple - Cloudflare - Microsoft - Infomaniak - Synology - Yeastar - Fortinet Close to you ## On screen. Or in person. Reach us within minutes by phone or email. And when a screen is no longer enough, we come on site. - Geneva, Carouge, Meyrin, Lancy, Plan-les-Ouates Geneva Office in Satigny, on-site support across the canton of Geneva. Managed IT, cybersecurity and cloud telephony for Geneva SMEs. - Lausanne, Nyon, Vevey, Montreux, Morges, Yverdon Vaud The outsourced IT department for Vaud SMEs, from La Côte to the Riviera. Managed IT, Microsoft 365 and Infomaniak collaboration tools. - Fribourg, Bulle, Romont, Estavayer-le-Lac Fribourg IT solutions for small businesses across Sarine, Gruyère and Broye. Cybersecurity for small and medium-sized businesses. - La Chaux-de-Fonds, Le Locle, Boudry Neuchâtel IT partner for Neuchâtel companies and the Watchmaking Arc, from Neuchâtel to Le Locle. VPN and professional networks. FAQ ## Avepto, in a few questions. Avepto runs the whole IT side of Swiss SMEs, on three fronts: managed IT, cybersecurity and everyday work tools. You stay focused on your business, we keep your IT running. ### What does Avepto do? Avepto is the IT partner for Swiss SMEs. We handle three areas: managed IT (support, monitoring and backups of your IT), cybersecurity (protecting your devices, identities and data) and productivity (Microsoft 365, kSuite, virtual private network and telephony). You keep your core business, we run your IT so it works without you thinking about it. ### What kinds of companies does Avepto work for? Avepto supports Swiss SMEs, most often of 5 to 80 employees: professional practices, accounting firms, engineering offices and retail businesses, across French-speaking Switzerland. These are organisations with no in-house IT team, or a small one, that want managed IT rather than a string of break-fix calls. We take on the role of the IT team they don’t have of their own. ### Where is Avepto based and which regions does it serve? Avepto is based in Satigny, in the canton of Geneva, Switzerland. We work across all of Geneva and all of French-speaking Switzerland: Vaud, Valais, Fribourg and Neuchâtel. Most requests resolve remotely, with visits on site when useful. Everything is handled in-house, end to end, by our team in Switzerland. ### How much does a managed IT provider cost for an SME in Switzerland? The cost depends on the number of users, the scope entrusted and the security level required, as a predictable monthly flat fee rather than an emergency-driven invoice. For an SME in French-speaking Switzerland, the order of magnitude for managed IT sits between CHF 5.- and CHF 20.- per user per day. The audit prices your situation. ### Why should an SME outsource its IT management? Outsourcing means entrusting your IT to a dedicated team instead of carrying it in-house. Your people stay focused on their core work while Avepto handles support, monitoring, backups and security. You gain complete IT expertise for a predictable monthly fee, with no one to hire or train. And the day an incident hits, you know exactly who to call. The Avepto blog ## IT for Swiss SMEs, explained simply. Clear articles, written so you can decide with confidence. [![A travertine pivot door standing ajar onto a sunlit courtyard, with a brass pull.](https://assets.avepto.ch/cdn-cgi/image/w=1126,h=774,f=auto,q=80,fit=cover/d67f74a5-15d7-467e-9824-31ddd54134f1.png)Cybersecurity 11.08.2026 MFA enabled, account compromised. Multi-factor authentication (MFA) guards the front door, not the corridors: a stolen session token lets an attacker walk in without ever forcing MFA. The answer comes down to two tools, explained simply: a SIEM that connects the signals and raises the alarm in minutes, and an EDR that isolates a machine behaving suspiciously.](https://avepto.ch/en/articles/mfa-not-enough-session-theft-siem-edr) [![Four colleagues gathered around a laptop in a meeting room in late-afternoon light.](https://assets.avepto.ch/cdn-cgi/image/w=768,h=528,f=auto,q=80,fit=cover/2c761c56-0f4e-48ef-a4aa-b9ad43ce131d.jpg)Cybersecurity 02.03.2026 Phishing and social engineering. Punitive phishing tests breed mistrust and hidden mistakes: 65% of office workers already bypass security policies. Build a lasting reflex instead with realistic, progressive scenarios, blame-free debriefs, role-based content and metrics tracking reports and detection speed, not just who clicked a decoy link.](https://avepto.ch/en/articles/phishing-training-employees) [![Aerial view of a crossroads at blue hour, the traffic light trails narrowing at the centre.](https://assets.avepto.ch/cdn-cgi/image/w=768,h=528,f=auto,q=80,fit=cover/4d77552a-07d7-4f72-9297-7821326454e2.jpg)Managed IT 18.02.2026 The signs your network is holding back your growth. A saturated network slows staff and quietly costs deals long before anyone blames it, while teams hide the damage with workarounds like working off-peak. Two weeks of simple monitoring reveals latency, congestion and Wi-Fi drops; prioritise business traffic, then modernise in planned phases that limit interruption and spread the investment.](https://avepto.ch/en/articles/signs-network-holding-back-growth) [![A woman looks out at the lake through a picture window while blurred copies of her sort files on the table behind.](https://assets.avepto.ch/cdn-cgi/image/w=768,h=528,f=auto,q=80,fit=cover/719e2eaf-005d-4732-b509-5d1f5c3e3844.png)AI 26.01.2026 AI for productivity. Five practical uses of AI for SMEs: finding a document, drafting, translating, answering customers, anticipating stock, and for each one the measure that says whether it brings anything. A three-month pilot is enough to decide. Many SMEs get there with ready-to-use tools; the real barrier is support, not technology.](https://avepto.ch/en/articles/ai-productivity-sme-use-cases) [![Two side-by-side road tunnels at dusk on a wet road, one dark, the other lit by headlight trails.](https://assets.avepto.ch/cdn-cgi/image/w=768,h=528,f=auto,q=80,fit=cover/7192875c-53b6-4765-9c1a-aa30765fb06e.png)Managed IT 08.01.2026 IT backup. A backup can report success and still be unusable on the day it matters, usually because it was never tested after creation. Keep copies on two separate sites, use immutable versions ransomware cannot overwrite, and set recovery-point and recovery-time targets per application so a nightly job never silently misses a day’s work. Then rehearse a full restore twice a year and time every step.](https://avepto.ch/en/articles/it-backup-common-pitfalls)