Businesses today are increasingly investing in enhancing customer experience or in rolling out new products instead of investing in technology expenditure. To gain competitive advantage, it is more important than ever for businesses to figure out how to maximise their existing investments and effectively leverage new technologies, as well as how to eliminate waste.
Static growth, margins eroding... How can I do more with less?
The C-suite faces relentless pressure from shareholders to pick up the pace of product rollouts, pivot to adapt to ever shifting market changes and expand globally. Business and IT leaders must sync their strategies to achieve the speed and agility required to meet these expectations and at the same time remain focused on the cost effectiveness of IT initiatives.
It can be challenging to bridge gaps between business units and the IT department and to unite them around a shared vision that powers the business. In other words, corporations must fuse business and technology.
PwC is uniquely positioned to facilitate the conversations that fuel the new partnerships, mindsets and governance models that are needed so that business and IT strategic planning can co-exist. Our business and technology expertise spans industries, disciplines and all types of technology. We understand how to address market pressures, leverage core and emerging technologies and align employee talent to seize business opportunities and to solve problems. Our solutions are custom designed to transform your business and drive distance between you and your competition.
IT is a major investment area for most organisations nowadays. However, the value of such investments is not always appreciated, nor its expected value fully derived from the investment; and in many cases, IT investment may be seen as high risk. While increased pressure exists to align IT expenditures to business needs, it is sometimes difficult for organisations to manage IT effectively for maximum returns on investment.
Clients continuously look for ways to get more out of their IT investment by improving their IT function effectiveness. Our trusted advisors can work with you towards this end, helping you to understand the value of, and manage the costs and risks associated with IT functions.
Scoping your business needs over a multi-year span and determining how and which industry specific business applications and solutions can drive your goals. This includes IT planning, requirements specifications, solution architecture, and vendor evaluation and system selection.
Aging IT Infrastructure and facilities, combined with fierce competition and savvy business users, have led many IT executives to retool their approach toward IT infrastructure. Furthermore, they are continually being challenged to keep up with demand for increased infrastructure capacity and services, more agility and decreased time-to market, all while trying to reduce costs. This may be a challenging time, but it also presents opportunities to deploy innovative infrastructure services that enable mobile access and incorporate streamlined processes in order to improve IT services, availability and utilization.
Valuable assets should not work in isolation from one another. PwC shows clients how to align and integrate their infrastructure services and business architecture. Through our range of services, you'll discover how to simplify your IT infrastructure and enhance your operating model with advanced networking technologies, improved IT assets and capacity management, more responsive disaster-recovery plans and foolproof information security and privacy. We can also help you navigate new challenges like hybrid cloud solutions, server consolidation, mobile device security, social networking strategies, employee-owned devices and cyber security.
Agile companies are seizing opportunities around the cloud to create innovative new services and business models that decrease time to market, create operational efficiencies and engage customers in new ways. Cloud services like Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS), Software-as-a-Service (SasS), Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) and Business Process-as-a-Service (BPaaS) are more than technology delivery paradigms.
Whether an enterprise wants to consume or offer cloud services—they can leverage the cloud to achieve new levels of the “Connected Experience” across customer, supplier, partner and employee relationships. The cloud impacts the entire enterprise—spanning corporate strategy, finance, operations, governance, culture and technology.
Wherever you are in your cloud journey, we have the breadth and depth of experience and global resources to help you create lasting competitive advantage with cloud solutions. From strategy through execution, we help our clients leverage the cloud to transform IT, scale and streamline operations and create new cloud-based businesses. Our strong alliances with HP, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, and Workday further differentiate our offerings.
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