E&Y to strengthen IT advisory, implementation services

The leading global tax, transactions and advisory services provider Ernst & Young (E&Y) has decided to strengthen its focus on IT advisory services by launching new offerings, besides massively ramping up its global headcount.

IT advisory has been identified as a focus area for E&Y globally, with plans to more than triple global team within three years using India as the key hub for this growth, E&Y said here today. The new offerings will be in areas of IT strategy, programme advisory and implementation services.

"The rapidly changing economic climate and growing complexities in business will increase demand for business improvement and restructuring models. We look forward to offering our clients a seamless combination of our capabilities," E&Y India partner and National Director for advisory services Sunil Chandiramani said.

 

"We are the market leaders in advisory services and strengthening our IT advisory will only further reinforce it. Also,there is a significant requirement from both the private and public sectors in the area of IT advisory," he added.

Under the new plan, E&Y will offer services like IT transformation and CIO advisory, sourcing advisory and new technology areas like cloud computing and green IT among others.

"We will now offer an integrated business improvement proposition to our clients covering both process and technology and a comprehensive solution from consulting to governance and execution," E&Y partner and national leader for IT advisory services Samiron Ghoshal said.