IT audit & consulting: securing your technology investments

IT budgets keep growing, yet their return on investment remains difficult to demonstrate. Delayed projects, redundant systems, hidden costs, dependence on obsolete solutions: all signals that call for an external, objective view. IS audit and consulting allow executive and technical management to regain control of their technology assets. SEPTYS puts this expertise at the service of IT governance and organisational performance.

Technology audit: an objective snapshot

An IS audit assesses the actual state of the information system: architecture, applications, infrastructure, security, processes and skills. It highlights gaps between business needs and existing solutions, identifies disruption risks and quantifies optimisation opportunities. The deliverable is a clear, prioritised and budgeted roadmap.

This exercise is particularly useful before a major decision: acquisition, merger, transformation or outsourcing.

Our audits rely on proven frameworks — COBIT, ITIL, ISO 27001 — and quantitative analysis methods. Each recommendation is costed: business impact, effort, priority. This rigour allows decision-makers to arbitrate with full knowledge and convince their governance bodies.

IS urbanisation: building sustainable assets

Aging information systems accumulate technical layers and redundant applications. IS urbanisation organises coherence between business processes, applications and data. It aims to simplify, consolidate and align the application portfolio with corporate strategy. The result: lower maintenance costs, greater agility and controlled capacity for change.

Urbanisation also involves managing technical debt: upgrading versions, replacing obsolete components and rationalising interfaces. Our teams plan these projects in waves, limiting impacts on operations and securing each delivery stage.

Governing the information system means ensuring that every franc invested serves the company's objectives.

Compliance and governance: the framework of trust

Compliance is not limited to personal data. It covers business continuity, traceability, archiving, access rights and sector-specific obligations. Our consultants help formalise IT policies, structure steering committees and define performance indicators (KPIs) shared between executive management and the IT department.

TMA and TRA: flexible delivery models

Once the roadmap is established, execution must follow. SEPTYS offers Third-Party Application Maintenance (TMA) to maintain and evolve your applications, and Third-Party Application Acceptance (TRA) to guarantee the quality of production releases. These flexible delivery models mobilise specialised skills without inflating payroll.

Our TMA contracts include measured service levels (SLAs) and monthly dashboards: availability, resolution times, non-regression rate. Transparency on service quality is the basis of a lasting relationship of trust.

• Architecture and performance audit;
• IS urbanisation and simplification;
• Compliance and documentation;
• TMA, TRA and long-term IT consulting;
• Support for the CTO and IT department.

The benefits for your organisation

What IT governance concretely brings to the company.

• 1. Cost control
• 2. Risk reduction
• 3. Informed decisions

In an uncertain economic environment, rigorous IT governance is a competitive advantage. It secures investments, makes stakeholders accountable and places the information system at the service of strategy.

Have your information system audited by independent, experienced consultants. Contact SEPTYS's IS Audit & Consulting team.