IT audit for the industrial manufacturer

Business Challenge

While migrating from Oracle ERP to proAlpha EBS, customer has faced a few challenges. The status of the project wasn’t clear enough:

• The client had no deadline for completing the migration.
• Delays with the implementation of the solution occurred.

For this reason the customer decided to conduct IT auditing. Audit service was the way to get a clear understanding of the status of the project as well as to review the company’s IT infrastructure.

One of the most important conditions for hiring external service provider to conduct IT auditing services – limited delivery time. In other words, the customer expected on the quick start and prompt feedback after the audit IT. In short, the manufacturer expected on following:

• The detailed report on the migration process from Oracle ERP to proAlpha EBS.
• IT department professional review & assessment.
• Review and assessment of proAlpha, Oracle EBS solution. ERP audit team should analyse proAlpha EBS modules as well as the needs of each department of the company. The goal – conduct audit service in order to verify that migration to proAlpha EBS is the right decision. The customer wanted to make sure that the migration would really solve main issues that departments of the company are facing with.

Our Solution

IT audit team started the evaluation of the organisation’s IT infrastructure, operational processes, data usage and management as well as policies and procedures. Also, the information technology audit included meetings with the representatives of each key department. Meetings / interviews helped to identify pros and cons of the current solution, Oracle ERP. Among all communication with employees helped to get a clear vision of expectations from proAlpha. For example, what features are essential and what is the status of data transfer to proAlpha.

Additionally, IT auditing team worked closely with key persons, responsible for the migration proAlpha EBS. In brief, the discussions were held around following topics:

• ProAlpha EBS, Oracle EBS
• Choices behind these systems
• Key challenges in the process
• List of other alternatives

Definitely, IT audit team reviewed key documentation related to this project and proAlpha software.

Business Impact

IT audit services were provided according to the set deadline. As a result the customer received an expert overview of the current progress of the migration project and assessment of the IT department. IT auditing results also included following:

• Detailed overview of the current state of the project and actual processes.
• Propositions of the solutions that will resolve current blockers data transmission to proAlpha.
• Detailed plan with the list of actions, which will facilitate the migration from Oracle ERP to proAlpha EBS, Oracle EBS.

In addition, IT audit team noticed the fee that proAlpha should return to the client due to blockers from their side.

Chudovo: IT audit services provider

IT auditing services – an independent review of IT infrastructure, control configuration and compliance with regulatory requirements of the organisation. The audit takes place in an objective and structured way. Information technology audit is a good solution in case when the firm sees any obstacles in its internal processes. IT audit services help to evaluate the organisation’s IT infrastructure and ensure its integrity with the main objectives of the respective organisation. Hence, Chudovo belongs to the IT audit companies with the team of experts in this field. Our IT auditing services will help your company with any kind of challenges. Contact our IT audit team: let’s discuss your pains and resolve them together!