This service is almost as important as the famous Accounting / Financial Audit. It is traditional to expect that, a President, Director or Manager of a company will not be an IT expert. But this is not why they should be a "hostage" of this department.

The possibility of money losses are obvious because it is a rare situation to find in a company, an IT responsible person, independently of Level of it job, that has the following skills:

• Technical Profile + Leadership / Management Skills

It is common to find only:

• Technical Profile with no Management Skills

or

• Management Skills with no Technical Profile

This is a fact and there is no need of special researches to prove it. Only the technical vision is not enough as there is no utility to have only the management skill. Both have to walk together and when there is a gap in one of them, certainly the company will have operational risks, possible money and time losses, loosing also the efficiency.

Please take a time to look at the following and common picture:

Technical Background Professional Positive Aspects Negative Aspects Define correctly technical specifications Short-term foreseeing Capable of testing products Unplanned purchases Capable of defining providers, brands and models Quick depreciation of the environment Strictly technical documentatin Lack of strategic vision Deep technical and specific knowledge Do not optimize the investment Define requirements based on knowledge Difficulty to prepare management reports Pro-active profile Fragmented infrastructure

Profissional com Perfil Gerencial Positive Aspects Negative Aspects Long / medium term foreseeing Inadequate technical specifications Capable of planning purchases, negotiations and conditions Unsecure to specify providers, models, brands Higher durability of the infrastructure Difficulty to analyze new products and new technologies technically Has strategic vision Strictly management report / documentation Investments with lack of technical knowledge General technical knowledge Hability to prepare management reports Make decisions based on indications Well organized infrastructure Reactive profile

Please take a look at the kind of services we are able to provide to your company:

• Risk and Data
  From the security point-of-view, which preventive measures for data protection, leak risks, backup, among others are being considered in your current IT environment.
• Legalization
  From the economic and risks point-of-view, a full audit of your systems, applications and softwares and recommendations for the right actions to legalize them (if necessary) or event the adoption of new open source platforms with no licensing costs.
• Security
  Full and deep analysis of the security systems, anti-virus platform, anti-spam / anti-spy, internal network security, wireless security, intrusion tests, etc.
• Security Policy
  Full and deep analysis of the current user restrictions / security policies applied, checking users permissions, access groups, internet access, access restrictions, etc.
• Administration, Management and Control
  Analysis from the strategic point-of-view how is your environment planned, organized, documented, etc..
• Team Analysis
  From the functional and economic point-of-view, how is your IT team, their technical and management skills, it they are above or below your needs, salarys, etc.
• Cost analysis, providers, contracts and third-parties
  Analysis of the current technical sources of equipments / softwares, third-parties contracts, guarantees, etc.
• Audit in IT supply chain / purchases
  Full or part analysis of the purchases history in order to find "mistakes" or incorrect overpricing, current environment versus purchased, models, specifications, prices, etc.

To know further, please contact us.

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