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Welcome to DBQ Technology!

DBQ Technology is an Apple-focused technology consulting practice. Founded by a twenty+ year veteran of Apple certified training and consulting, our team brings together the latest technologies, fueled by experience and insight. We support folks who use Apple devices and services. We live and breathe in Apple's user-centric, security focused model. Oh, and we have fun.

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Each person's growth leads to everyone's abundance

About DBQ

Let DBQ Technology support you with quality, secure technology solutions, exclusively for the Apple platform. We use our blend of expertise, kind candor, and attention to the details to create solutions that mature with your business. We guide our business clients to ever-improving operational maturity, built via relationships lasting a decade or longer. DBQ understands how to craft technology solutions that support the goals and budgets of our customers, while building a reliable, secure tech infrastructure.

DBQ Services

DBQ Technology is an Apple-focused technology services advisor. We work within the Apple services and device ecosystem, with Apple-certified years of experience as your foundation.

What we do

  • Apple Certified technology consulting.
  • Action Planning: In depth, technical assessment plus explicit, actionable feedback, resulting in a playbook you own.
  • Device management using Apple-centric, industry leading tools.
  • Strategic leveraging of Apple's security models and deployment programs for business.
  • Focus on improving our client's experience of technology.
  • Take a user-centric, user-benefitting approach to security.

    • And as always, we strive to enjoy our work, our customers, and each other!

    DBQ CoreServices Program

    CoreServices is the DBQ foundational service to securely manage and protect your devices. Here's what it includes.

    New built-in features

  • Malwarebytes threat detection (macOS and iOS).
  • Automatic macOS device backup.
  • On demand cyber security training videos for your team.

    • Secure foundation features

  • MDM (Mobile Device Management): our primary tool for device management and software deployment.
  • Remote monitoring and maintenance so DBQ is notified before you notice.
  • Automatic remediation for many issues, behind the scenes.
  • Automated system and security updates.
  • Enforce security features such as encryption, monitoring activation lock status, plus the ability to remotely lock and/or wipe a system.

    • Additional security focused features

  • Advanced security assessment and cyber security training for management.
  • Access to a library of professional security policies, available to customize.
  • Monthly newsletter on security topics.
  • DBQ systems can provide reports on the metrics that matter to you.

    • We deliver it all with the help of our partners, including these below:

    AFI partner • Addigy • Malwarebytes • Background Backup

    Addigy AFI MalwareBytes Background Backup

    Curious what it is like working with DBQ? Here’s how we jam:

  • First, enjoy a no cost, one hour discussion with DBQ, with our feedback and recommendations to follow.
  • Decide if DBQ is the right trusted IT advisor for you.
  • Approve scope and budget for our consulting relationship.
  • Sign off on contract and accounting paperwork securely via Docusign
  • Onboard your systems into DBQ Technology management with our personable team
  • Relax!

    • About Shelley

    Shelley began IT consulting in 1999, building on her experience working for Apple in the late 1980s, and as a lifelong trainer. She brings her decades of business management savvy to her technology consulting practice, along with healthy doses of optimism and creative thinking. Shelley has developed and delivered training courseware for Apple and Microsoft; she spent many fun years criss-crossing the country to deliver Support Essentials training for Apple's clients. On any given day, you'll find her out on her deck looking for deer.

    Shelley Watson Apple Consultants Network Addigy Certified Consultants

    We love our partners and colleagues!

    At DBQ, our local colleagues extend the range of service and support we provide our clients. We know collaborating with trusted partners is the 'rising tide that lifts all boats', bringing greater solutions to our clients, and expanding the success of our partners.