As organisations use of Information Technology (IT) services to provide more efficient and result-oriented processes increases, they are required to pay far greater attention than in the past to the provision and management of the IT infrastructure on which their businesses rely.
Without IT services, most organisations cannot function, without quality services they cannot function well. But it is often difficult to determine which technologies are most relevant to business needs, whilst the full implications and risks associated with the various options may not always be clear.
This is where IT Needs Assessment and Strategic Plan becomes priceless, IT Needs Assessment and Strategic Plan enables the organization to evaluate current IT infrastructure, systems and processes in order to develop a long term Road Map. The analysis consists of reviewing the current IT infrastructure including servers and workstations, audits, networks, and security, identifying gaps and providing recommendations and action steps for the organizational direction.
Phinet competencies in this area extend across a wide range of industries, business applications, computing platforms, applicable regulations as well as security and control.
Phinet IT Audit and Assessment covers the following areas:
Discovery Survey
Previous Strategic Plans review (if any)
Key personnel and focus groups interview
Current technology review
Application architecture review
Network architecture review
IT security risk assessment review
IT gaps analysis
Benchmarking analysis and best practices review
IT policies and procedures review
Phinet will use the data collected through the audit and assessment activities to evaluate the current IT environment and create comprehensive assessment of the current IT and strategic plan for the client’s future initiatives.
Based on our analyses, we'll make recommendations and strategic plan will include a specific action plan for implementation of recommendations and a tool for objective evaluation of potential investments in IT and expected impact.
The use of resultant Strategic plan by client is also expected to greatly enhance overall IT operational efficiencies and improve internal resource utilization.