IT Advisory

Technology is a key facilitator of rapid global business growth and advancement.  It is also a major source of business risk. Boards and senior executives recognize the importance of technology, but often struggle to understand and manage it effectively. Often, business executives and their IT professionals don’t speak the same language. This communications gap can lead to misunderstandings and misaligned expectations and outcomes.

KPMG’s IT Advisory practice can help bridge the communications gap between business executives and IT professionals. We believe our professionals bring a powerful combination of technical skills and business experience. The underlying philosophy surrounding our service portfolio is commitment – we work with clients to help you make the right commitments and keep them. Matching our service offerings to client issues  and challenges IT Advisory is KPMG’s business technology assurance and advisory group. Our service offerings are closely aligned to our client’s business IT lifecycle to enable focused advisory efforts across the IT spectrum.

KPMG’s Business Systems Controls (BSC) services can help organizations ensure that adequate systems controls, relating to a major application implementation, are in place and operating effectively.

IT Risk & Control Assessment service is a structured approach to assessing the IT risks faced by an organization and the extent to which existing controls address those risks.

This service includes performing pre- and post-assessments of the system controls’ design, configuration, access and process. Reporting controls to remediate a gap in the controls’ environment effectively.

Business Continuity Management (BCM) helps organizations identify and manage disruption risks and reduce their vulnerability to a wide range of potentially devastating events.

KPMG's IT Internal Audit methodology, helps clients align their IT Internal Audit capabilities with the strategic and tactical objectives of their organizations – giving them the means to meet their current and future needs as they relate to governance, risk, and control over IT resources.

Assists clients affected by business IT systems, who often need extra help to satisfy stakeholder expectations. This service offers assessments to provide comfort to customers and business partners through seals and distributable reports such as and SSAE16/ISAE 3402.

IT Due Diligence (ITDD) provides diagnostic and analytical approach for the assessment of an IT organization, in the context of a business transaction.