IT Strategy & Enterprise Architecture

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Business leaders depend on information technology to sustain value and keep an edge on competition, and to do so, enterprise-wide systems must perform at a high level.
Evolving technologies, however, can pose threats to business operations, and legacy systems often are inefficient and out of date. As a result, IT spending will consume 10 percent of corporate budgets by 2015, and IT will be forced to deliver more value on the investment.
PwC's IT Strategy and Enterprise Architecture practice helps clients manage technology so they can achieve competitive advantage. Our services include:

• IT strategy and business alignment: Coordination of IT and business strategies to strike the ideal balance of effectiveness, efficiency, and innovation
• IT governance and organization: Design of a governance framework for IT management practices, risk avoidance, and roles and responsibilities
• Application and portfolio rationalization: Analysis of new and existing applications and decision making to achieve a rational portfolio and effective management practices
• IT cost management: Improvement in efficiency to eliminate business redundancies, consolidate technologies, and renegotiate contracts
• Merger technology integration: Defining all aspects of the merger and acquisition process with an end-to-end suite of solutions, from strategy development, financial analysis, and transaction execution to organizational and system integration, optimization, and transformation