IT Advisory

Information and Communication Technology (ICT) can deliver improved business performance by addressing your business' agenda. Synergy works directly with CIOs and others to create a more effective ICT infrastructure. SPA, helps clients to deliver transformational business change by creating efficiencies throughout the organization.

A well-managed IT system provides valuable business advantages to any organization. We ensure that IT mitigates risk and improves performance. By helping our clients to properly implement the right technology (with appropriate management and monitoring) Synergy delivers significant organizational growth, efficiency and effectiveness.

Synergy's information management experts provide sound business advice to help companies manage technology risks. Ineffective IT deployments can cost significant time and money and put your business at risk of regulatory infringements. Trust Synergy Professional Accountants to secure your ICT investments.

How we can help?

Synergy helps businesses align their information technology capabilities with their strategic and operational goals. Our management consulting services are designed to enhance the return on IT investments and effectively mitigate IT risks.

Our services include:

IT Project Advisory

As IT projects become increasingly complex and challenging Synergy's IT Project Advisory services help organizations to implement appropriate strategy, processes and controls that reduce the risk of project failure and cost overruns.

We provide advisory and assistance in the areas of:

• ICT Project Management
• Training in Project Management and organizational skills
• Portfolio management: including performance reviews and maturity assessments
• Enterprise programme management
• Project health and risk assessments
• ICT Project Recovery
• Evaluating and Selecting IT Vendors

IT Strategy and Performance

Synergy works closely with your Chief Information Officer (CIO) to enhance the value IT delivers to your business. At the same time, we use IT to enhance solution delivery and optimise performance, while maintaining effective corporate governance.

IT Sourcing Advisory

Outsourcing non-core activities to external service providers helps companies to: decrease costs; free-up resources for core business activities and; employ specialised skills and technology. Synergy helps clients to evaluate their approach to outsourcing by establishing sourcing strategies and controls. This increases the benefits that can be realized from outsourcing, shared services and vendor arrangements.

IT Risk and Compliance

Managing IT compliance and risk is becoming increasing important in the face of a growing regulatory environment. IT failures can impede company growth through customer loss, market devaluation, reputational damage, privacy issues and lawsuits. Synergy Professional Accountants helps clients to develop IT controls that boost the functional reliability of your business.

Synergy's Risk Management professionals help organizations manage IT-related risks, turn risk to opportunity and create sustainable business value. We introduce IT compliance, governance and controls to ensure security, privacy, data integrity and supply-chain management. SPA helps organizations achieve information technology compliance in many areas, including:

• IT Audits
• IT Risk, Governance and Compliance
• Information Security and Business Continuity

As a result, Synergy offers our clients such advantages as:

• Enhanced IT Risk Management
• Better incident management, resilience and improved recovery times
• Upgraded business security and reduced risk of unauthorized access or data loss
• Enhanced relationships with stakeholders and regulators
• Effective communication of information technology issues to all staff including the management team

IT Transformation

To increase the return on IT investments businesses need to measure and improve the effectiveness of their IT deployments. Our services include IT sourcing and outsourcing, IT solution architecture, IT infrastructure optimization and demand management.

Technology assistance

Our business and technology experts help our clients to transform their business with technology. Synergy supports the implementation of industry software packages for accounting, finance, supply-chain management, customer relationship management (CRM), human resources (HR), risk management and compliance.

Client-Side Program Advisory

Large-scale IT transformations like those involving Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) systems require qualified and experienced professionals to produce results. Synergy helps clients manage the IT transformation programs, including the management of third-party vendors.

IT risk and assurance services

Our Information Technology, Risk Management and Assurance professionals will help your company manage IT risks in a manner that aligns with your business strategy. Our qualified and experienced technical professionals apply the IT-related risk management knowledge from across the Caribbean, to help you with:

IT controls services

To reduce the risks in the IT infrastructure, applications and data layer of our clients, Synergy's services focus on the design, implementation and rationalization of IT controls. We help clients address the important issues of information security which is essential to succeed in the current landscape of cloud computing, mobile technology and social media.

IT Risk transformation

With the help of technology, Synergy Professional Accountants will help your company improve the efficiency and effectiveness of IT risk management efforts. We help companies identify and manage key risks within the design of their IT framework.

See IT Risk and Compliance and IT Transformation

IT Assurance

We provide independent, reliable assessments of Information Technology (IT) risks and suggest governance and controls strategies to manage them. Our IT Assurance team provides strong operations management and strategic decision-making skills. This includes skills in the supporting areas of:

• Business strategy
• Organizational change
• Programme management