Business technology alignment
BDO IT provides the expertise to assist in improving the performance and value that you derive from your IT Services and ensures that your technology is aligned to the needs of the business. Our IT services include:
IT Strategy
One of the key drivers in the ability to derive value from technological assets is a sound IT strategy. It is critical that the strategy is aligned to the business strategy, has commitment from the CEO to shop floor, provides the framework to capture and measure results, is complete and can be practically executed. BDO provides the expertise in developing or reviewing the IT strategy to ensure that it is as effective as possible and is aligned to the business.
Development of IT Policies Services
The implementation of policies and procedures is a key area of any business. In the area of information technology, it is important to have standards, policies and procedures to ensure sound governance of this area. We offer experience in understanding the extent to which various standards and guides are applicable in a particular environment, and can also assist with the change management to accompany the introduction of new policies or procedures.
Business Continuity Planning & Disaster Recover Plans
It is vital that businesses have a business continuity and disaster recovery plan in place to facilitate the key operations and personnel to ensure ‘survivability’ in the event of a disaster. Disaster Recovery needs to go beyond having tape backups, and Business Continuity needs to go beyond recovery of systems. BCP and DRP may be part of an organisational learning effort that helps reduce operational risk associated with lax information management controls. Services we provide include the development, review and testing of business continuity and disaster recovery plans. We also offer tools to facilitate the ongoing maintenance of the plans. This process may be integrated with improving information security and corporate reputation risk management practices. Refer to our IT risk and governance services.
IT Security Services
Information security is concerned with the confidentiality, integrity and availability of data regardless of the form the data may take: electronic, print, or other forms. This means protecting information and information systems from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, disruption, modification, or destruction . We have the expertise to perform security reviews and vulnerability testing and to assist in the development of comprehensive strategies to ensure an appropriate level of effective information security is maintained. We also advise on privacy-related matters, including the requirements of the credit- and debit-card industry (PCI-DSS).
ERP System Review Services
An ERP system supports most key business processes, maintaining the data to support a variety of business functions in a single database.
To ensure efficient and effective business performance, we assist clients in reviewing their core ERP system against current and future business requirements and provide recommendations for improvement, or replacement if necessary. A client considering a costly replacement of an under-performing ERP system may be able to realise significant improvements in performance with a dramatically lower investment as a result of our expert analysis. We also have expertise to review systems in environments where an ERP system has not been deployed.
IT Project Review Services
We have extensive experience in reviewing IT projects to determine the appropriateness of methodology, decision processes and to assess the appropriate ness and effectiveness of risk management processes. We have performed reviews of core system replacement projects , IT strategy development and IT infrastructure We also serve as expert witnesses in cases where a client and vendor disagree on how a project has unfolded.
