In today's world, usage of informational technologies is the indispensable condition of enterprise efficiency . It is impossible to manage the company without a properly working IT system, so IT infrastructure is of about the same importance as social or economic one. Its analysis and functionality evaluation help the company management to take proper decisions concerning the business development and business processes realization.

Besides, such an audit is also necessary in case of company conversion, amalgamation or absorption; that is, when two companies with different IT infrastructure start working together, and the infrastructure needs to be unified.

Audit and consulting will help you answer the following questions:

• How to structure your business processes for their automation;
• How to plan gradual automation at the enterprise;
• Which IT systems should be chosen for optimization of works and enhancing business effectiveness;
• How to make the existing software work harmoniously;
• How to optimize the existing system in order to enhance productivity and its correspondence to modern business processes;
• How to organize an IT system which would be adequate to business tasks;
• To what extent the software and hardware used correspond to the modern IT level;
• How to select IT solutions that would match the company's business requirements;
• Whether the existing systems possess enough functionality and whether it meets the international standard ISO 9001:2000.

Audit results may include:

• Analytical report on IT infrastructure and development status, containing information on IT systems implementation and customers' technical support;
• Evaluation of aggregate value of ownership and investment returns for IT;
• Analysis and ranking of current problems, finding methods for optimum solutions for those problems, initiation of works on problem elimination, and control over this process;
• Technologies optimization for subdivisions functioning and for interaction between the subdivisions;
• Technologies optimization for enhancing productivity in main technological processes;
• Increasing effectiveness in exploitation of current facilities, workplaces, and reporting systems;
• Analysis and (if necessary) increase of personnel qualification relating to products usage.

Besides technological analysis, we are capable of successfully solving problems of expenditures optimization and IT effectiveness enhancement.

Recommendations provided by companies that are connected with vendors and interested in selling expensive equipment cannot be considered altogether impartial. DigitalXpert's advantage lies in the fact that we are independent from hardware and software producers.

Audit result reports are prepared very thoroughly and include predictions as to the prospective effect, potential risks, and tentative budget. The reporting document will contain different variants for solving the existing tasks taking into accountallocated financial and other resources. Besides the documents, it is possible to give consultations to the administration and IT specialists for successful implementation of the suggestions presented.

The services being offered include:

• Audit of integration and interaction level for end-user applications and implemented systems;
• Data quality audit;
• IT systems security audit;
• Outlining recommendations for IT systems development and modernization;
• Specifications writing for software development (if the customer does not have the corresponding expertise) – including formulation of requirements for 3 rd party developers.

Key projects fulfilled in the sphere of independent audit and consulting:

• Outlining suggestions on the customer's IT system modernization ( Customer: USA, Ministry of Finance);
• Creating a project-scheme for a learning portal (Customer: Saudi Arabia, Ministry of Education);
• Creating a project-scheme for a single portal solution for granting user access to a number of informational resources (Customer: Russian Federation, a large federal service);
• Inspection of informational and industrial system on all management levels (Customer: Pulp and paper mill, "Kondopoga").