Many times companies have large projects or implementations that require expert technical resources to meet deadlines, and to effectively complete a Fortinet product implementation with minimal issues. Fortinet Professional Services are designed to ensure timely and expert delivery of individual customer projects and may be engaged at any time throughout the project lifecycle.

Fortinet Professional Services consultants are available at a per-day rate according to a predefined schedule and a statement of work defining clear deliverables. This is developed and agreed upon between Fortinet and the customer prior to commencement of the consulting engagement. Experienced Fortinet consultants will work directly with the customer to ensure the efficient execution of the project according to the statement of work agreement.

Key Solution Features

• Experienced Consultants -- Highly-skilled Fortinet engineering resources that can solve difficult technical issues and deploy complex architectural designs and implementations.
• Direct and Fast Interface into Fortinet -- Professional service consultants have direct access to Fortinet developers and support resources to ensure a complete, precise, and timely solution and a successful service engagement.
• Professional Services Toolbox -- Consultants come with access to a living toolbox of scripts, architectures, and configurations of proven designs and implementations for Fortinet solutions.
• Communications and Reporting -- Professional services consultants will provide an initial statement of work for engagements as well as project phases.

Professional Services Consultants

Professional services consultants are highly knowledgeable across the broad arena of networking and data communications, with special emphasis on all aspects of security technologies including competitive hardware, and most common network hardware. They not only have expert engineering skills in the deployment of Fortinet products, they also have excellent network management and analysis experience utilizing industry standard tools in addition to the Fortinet FortiManager and FortiAnalyzer Centralized management, logging, and reporting platforms.

Professional services consultants will help in the design of Fortinet technology deployments of all types which includes FortiManager, FortiGate, FortiAnalyzer, FortiMail, and FortiClient products. The team is composed of consultants both in the field and at regional headquarters where access to a comprehensive lab and demonstration center provides an invaluable staging and validation environment. In cases where on-site testing of a Fortinet deployment architecture is not possible professional services consultants have the option of pre-staging designs for verification at Fortinet's labs, ensuring a proven production deployment is achieved.