The Strategic Planning of IT provides the Information Technology of companies, strategic assistance to develop IT policies, defining solutions to assist business areas and administration.

  The Strategic Planning of IT project seeks the definition of strategies under the intent to identify Models of Corporate and Organizational Information, essential to manage the  main business of company.

 The plan is based on the view of managers and IT experts, also the analysis of internal and external environment, supported by technical tools and methodologies, aiming to develop strategic plan, building synergy between technology and business objectives.

As a fundamental tool for any company, Strategic Planning of IT is vital to allow the identification of future needs, facilitate the development of new business environment supplied with market differential.

Enable companies to identify their current and future needs, analyze investments and their commitment with solutions plan, fitting financial assets with the proposed objectives.

Information Technology is considered being an element to trigger business in this century. Such basic assumption links the ability to generate wealth to the IT infrastructure for new services with efficiency and availability. .

Business Continuity Management is focused on the protection of processes associated with IT solutions. Business impact may be reduced in times of crisis, and a proper level of corporate stability and recovery is ensured. Continual services of IT also decrease the interruption of key- processes of business.

The Management of BCM Program comprises surveys, analyses, conclusions and action plans.  Such procedure defines the performance of managers in case of incidental occurrence, also the measures to avoid damage in the course of processes in  companies; BCM culture is also promoted internally, through the program exercise, maintenance and auditing.

Products comprising Management of BCM Program:

·        Survey of Infrastructure

·        Analysis of Business Impact

·        Analysis of Physical and Logical Risks of IT

·        Strategy Draft of Continuity of IT services

·        BCP – Business Continuity Plan

·        Management Plan of BCM Program

 Build and spread the BCM culture

 Exercise, keep and audit BCM program

IT development changed the way most companies work in the last decades. Such changes are clear in several business processes of a company.  One example is called "sales process" (Ex: Marketing generate calls which leads to sales; Sales develop relationships and prepare proposals; the Administration is in charge with following the order and ensure feedback  to the sales team; Sales keep the customer informed about the course of order etc.). All business processes are based on softwares and technology.

 Traditional companies tend to be less flexible and slower to market changes, which may cause an obstacle for growth. Nowadays, horizontal processes are emphasized and decision making falls on the operational level of companies.  This scenario is supported by operating management processes of IT Services, where movement is dynamic from one department to another.Priorities are also established to increase performance indicators of processes, appraise resources and reduce costs.

Consult provides advisory services guided by the best market practices as ITIL, CobiT and ISO among others, to compose and introduce Information Technology management, such as:

·        Valuation of IT Processes

·        Definition of IT Processes

·        Auditing of IT Process

Management by Processes has focus on customers’ satisfaction, improving results allied to costs reduction.

An undeniable fact for companies is the need to become more productive, flexible and competitive in their core business.

Due to the growing demand for information and great competition in the globalized world, companies are compelled to manage their data in a broader way. Thus, a solution of Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) is required to provide better adhesion to processes, flexibility and information gathering for decision making in real time.

A few questions may reflect the reality of controls in your company:

Within how much time the information requested to assist decision making should be available?

Is there dependence and high level of use of spreadsheets for control and generation of information in your company?

Is there a fair volume of rework and time of efforts to search and develop information?

Does your company need to seek constant information, without the trust in data presented?

How is the control level in areas, such as: Production, Commercial, Purchasing, Financing, Assets, Tax Bookkeeping, Accounting, Budget Control?

Definition of Process Mapping

Intelligent use of Information Technology and the improvement of processes are essential to reach efficient productivity and competitiveness, able to accomplish better control of business activities.

Companies are stimulated to constant update due to the fast evolution of IT regarding the development of new softwares.A detailed valuation of solutions is vital for the course of processes and business.

The Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP), is applied to several areas (Production, Logistics, Distribution, Inventories, Commercial, Purchasing, Financing, Assets, Tax Bookkeeping, Accounting, Budget Control, and others); favour the interdependence of processes, also permits the alignment of knowledge developed.

Modules of integrated systems correspond to the way processes are subdivided into work fields (departments).

Benefits of Integrated System

Unique Information System: Allows process automation to consolidate results enabling to all users, from operating and managing levels, the same understanding of information, through standardized language;

Saving Time and Efforts: Reduction of time and efforts to settle information generated by different offices and departments (branches, warehouses, sectors, etc.). A sharp analysis of current business processes, also of cultural and behavioral elements involved is essential to cover all internal needs of Corporate Management solutions.