IT partner for opening an office in Portugal

The subsidiary has a start date and a policy handbook from the parent company. On this side, each supplier handles only its own part: one the network, another the computers, another the telephony. Coordination falls to someone in another time zone who does not know the local carriers or lead times.

What head offices are looking for is rarely a technology. It is one person in Portugal who meets dates and leaves everything documented.

• A single voice in Portugal Accountable for the whole project and fluent in head office's technical language.
• Your rules, applied here Group security policies implemented and documented locally.
• Reporting in your format Periodic reports and inventory as head office wants to read them.
• From zero to operation From the first network outlet to day-to-day management.

1. Remote planning — sessions in English with global IT to finalise design and requirements. We order the internet connections immediately, as they are always the longest lead time.
2. Technical works — racks and certified cabling, firewall with segmentation, Wi-Fi 6/7, redundant internet connections, IP PBX, CCTV and access control, equipped meeting rooms, servers or cloud, Microsoft 365 or Google Workspace, Windows and Mac prepared and a security baseline identical to the group's.
3. Opening — accounts created and engineers on site on launch day. Nobody sits waiting.
4. Management — the office moves onto IT Unlimited, with a fixed monthly fee and continuous follow-up. Those who need full coverage choose Premium 365, the only plan with 24/7 support and monitoring.

Once scope is closed and the premises are accessible, we sign off the handover date.

• Local IT department A single contact for head office, inventory and reports to the group standard.
• IT Unlimited Premium A fixed monthly fee and unlimited on-site support, call-outs included.
• Network infrastructure and structured cabling Survey before the works, Layer 3 switching and PoE, phones and Wi-Fi in the same project.
• Business Wi-Fi 6 and 7 Coverage survey and centralised management, with networks by profile.
• Managed firewalls Segmentation, managed antivirus and secure remote access.
• Servers, cloud and backups NAS, Microsoft 365 and tested restores.
• IP telephony and CCTV IP phone systems and GDPR-compliant video surveillance.

Remote backups and protection of workstations and servers are active from day one. Office moves are carried out outside business hours, by engineers certified by the leading manufacturers.

• Concentrated accountability One partner instead of five suppliers for telecoms, cabling, hardware, security and support.
• Fluency with head office Communication in English and an architecture designed for global policies.
• International experience We already support groups with offices in Europe, the Americas, Asia and the Middle East.
• The same team before and after Those who designed and built it are those who run it.

During the build: a dated plan, regular status updates in English and documentation of every element installed. After opening: periodic reports, inventory to the group standard and local confirmation that global policies are in force.

For those working in the office, the experience comes down to this: walk in, plug in the laptop and work. If something fails, there is someone on site.

Multinationals setting up a subsidiary, groups consolidating their Iberian operation, companies moving premises and representative offices with a fixed opening date.

This service exists only within an IT Unlimited contract: annual, automatic renewal, 60 days' notice and no lock-in. DataRoad does not do one-off jobs or sell standalone equipment. It takes responsibility for the entire environment.

A new office, a move or just a second opinion on the planned infrastructure: an engineer replies the same day, with a no-commitment proposal. Talk about opening in Portugal.

More than 10 workstations · support contract · remote, on-site and telephone support. Call +351 211 459 950* or write to sales@dataroad.pt.

*Call to a Portuguese landline.

Further reading: IT projects for international companies · networks for offices.