Information Technology continues to represent a strategic business opportunity, however often undervalued by enterprises, even though they recognize and perceive its potential.
A full understanding of the benefits arising from an integrated IT management towards corporate business process enables integration between the CIO and Top Management, ensuring strengths in information management and in service quality, also in the long term.
Technology services generally represent enablers forming a set of skills integrating and completing PricewaterhouseCoopers focus area service lines (Financial effectiveness, IT Effectiveness, Operations e Governance, Risk &Compliance).
Technology services mainly cover the following areas:
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What we do |
- Management is uncertain as to the adequacy of security management systems
- Management intends to improve the protection ability of the IT infrastructure against vulnerability
- Review security and internal control systems compliance with the law and with regulations
- the company wants to implement new businesses, systems and safe applications
- Management wants to define a plan/roadmap to profitably improve safety and controls
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- End-to-end services range supply, in 4 areas:
- Security Governance, Strategy and Planning (analysis and design of the security management system, risk analysis, security policy, conformity with laws and regulations)
- Identity Management and Application Security (rules for authorization and control of access, management of utilities and application security)
- Threat & Vulnerability Management (fixed assets count, examination of threats and vulnerabilities, Attack & Penetration, information management, ecc.)
- Crisis Management and Cybercrime (crisis management and accidents investigation and remediation)
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| Critical issue |
What we do |
- Need to align applications and corporate data to the new business processes
- Need to solve corporate application issues (overworked applications, fragile architecture, poor security, technology gap)
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- Business Process Analysis vs IT Application Analysis (as-is, to-be)
- IT Architecture Analysis (as-is, to-be)
- Business Technology Best Practice vs IT Strategy
- Project Portfolio Management
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| Critical issue |
What we do |
- Need to effectively manage evolutions in applications
- Data Replication and Reconciliation Issue
- Need for a standard management of information shared by several business processes
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- Technology Infrastructure Analysis
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| Critical issue |
What we do |
- Need to correctly manage Governance, Risk and Compliance systems
- Need for applications consistent with regulation requirements
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- Compliance Analysis vs. IT Architecture
- Support in the definition of a governance framework for the Compliance Solution
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