Effective management of change provides a structured, consistent, and measurable change environment to be utilized across an organization and is a critical component in the success of its daily business. Its goal is to increase awareness and understanding of proposed changes across the organization and ensure that all changes are made in a thoughtful way that minimize negative impact to services and customers. An organization should have a document that defines the implementation of Change Management procedure. The computing systems, networks, peripherals, and associated facilities are subject to continuous changes driven by new technology, evolving business requirements, changing contractual requirements, and growing regulatory policies. Effective change management applies to both systems and supporting infrastructure, and is a necessary component for the continuous success and growth of the organization.

According to Forrester Research, in 2013 Cloud Computing was a $58 billion industry and is on track to grow into a $191 billion industry by 2020. A 2014 Grant Thornton report indicates that 40 % of global businesses currently do or plan to outsource business processes including their Tax, IT, and HR & Payroll services.

Considerations for Application Security Program

Application security is the use of software, hardware, and procedural methods to protect applications from external threats.

The goal is either preventing unwanted events or ensuring desired events.

When you are doing online banking at home, or checking emails in the office, or updating a status on Facebook, you are using an application. Applications are pervasive in our daily life nowadays both personally and professionally. Needless to say, applications are critical to support business operations and IT Application Controls are taking on an ever greater roll in society.

In today’s business environment, IT organizations are faced with the continuous challenge of providing consistent, reliable, secure and scalable services that will support the company business objectives efficiently and effectively. As if that is not enough, the IT leadership must also ensure that the IT organization is no longer just a commodity service provider, but is also a valuable partner to the business helping to create value for the company.

In today’s business environment IT organizations are faced with the continuous challenge of providing consistent, reliable, secure and scalable services that will support the company business objectives efficiently and effectively.  If that is not enough, the IT leadership must also ensure that the IT organization is no longer just a commodity service provider, but is also a valuable partner to the business helping to create value for the company.

According to a 2014 Grant Thornton report, 40% of global businesses currently are or plan to outsource business processes which include Tax, IT, HR & Payroll. One of the big trends in IT is that IT organizations will continue to move IT services such as managed services, managed hosting, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and cloud solutions to third-party vendors.

According to a 2014 Grant Thornton report, 40% of global businesses currently are or plan to outsource business processes which include Tax, IT, HR & Payroll.

One of the big trends in IT is that IT organizations will continue to move IT services such as managed services, managed hosting, software-as-a-service (SaaS), and cloud solutions to third-party vendors.

Companies use many business reports to monitor the success and progress of their businesses and operations. These reports may include financial, labor, inventory, sales, as well as detailed information about customers. Executives, directors, managers and analysts of various departments are usually the readers of the reports.