Technology Enablement

Technology strategies can fuel enterprise strategies

Your enterprise strategy identifies emerging market forces and defines how you will support growth. As part of this, your technology strategy needs to clearly align your technology capabilities with your top business priorities.

Your technology strategy needs support from partner solutions that are tailored to meet your unique challenges. Cloud-based or on-premise software solutions keep your business running with a sound architecture that supports your needs now and in the future.

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Enterprise IT Strategy

Capabilities: To see how technology delivers value, enterprises need a deep understanding of their technology capabilities. We... Show moreperform a capability maturity assessment and help evaluate and develop core technology capabilities that support growth and objectives.

Costs & Investments: We can help you understand and evaluate your unique context and IT cost structure, to inform precise benchmarking and a focus on future state architecture.

Operating Model: We can help prioritize your roadmap and identify quick wins while helping IT engage with the business more effectively and productively.

Package Selection

To win business tomorrow, enterprises need to understand the technology needed at every level. The right software, thoroughly vetted and implemented, can enhance... Show more already-efficient processes and get work done even faster and cheaper. Grant Thornton helps identify mission-critical requirements, evaluate vendors, analyze costs and develop a roadmap to guide companies on their journey to successful software implementation. We work hand-in-hand with organizations to help ensure that the selected software and software partners are the right fit for success.

Technology Architecture

Enterprise strategies need both an effective technology strategy and architecture. Grant Thornton performs in-depth technical architecture assessments... Show more, which help organizations identify the technology capabilities that organizations should adopt or modify from within, without or a combination of the two. Ultimately, the goal is to establish the hardware, software and integration strategy that will support the future state.

Application Portfolio Atrategy

Applications should not exist in silos. They must be connected to both the business landscape of a corporation and its technology ecosystem. Grant Thornton ... Show more develops business-driven and holistic Application Portfolio Strategies for our clients. This starts with identifying business components and technology capabilities. We then partner to develop a path forward for what is needed from the IT application portfolio to meet future business requirements. The strategy includes not just the applications themselves, but extends to people, process, technology, governance, support, training and culture lenses to ensure that each client’s application portfolio will be ready for future business needs.

Cloud Strategy

The cloud platform has rapidly transformed the delivery of technology, and it’s transforming entire business models and cost structures. Organizations are... Show more increasingly trying to understand what the cloud can do for them, embarking on sometimes highly complex cloud migration strategies and initiatives. A successful deployment of a cloud solution will increase margins and provide a competitive advantage. Our team of highly skilled professionals can help organizations find the optimal cloud solution and adopt cloud-based strategies and partners tailored to their specific needs.

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Many energy companies are using new strategies to attract and retain B2B customers amid increasing competition.

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Oil & Gas Journal

[Stable oil price expectations are] making life easier for CFOs evaluating opportunities and building transaction models—even as a lot of them have been improving their own firms’ finances.

— Philip Christy

Managing Director, Transaction Advisory,

Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

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POWER Magazine

“While much has been made of the potential for renewable power in America, the reality is that renewables made up a greater percentage of U.S. electric power generation in 1950 than they do today. Still, projections show that this historical gap should begin closing soon, spurred by government subsidies and advances in emerging renewable technologies, which are quickly becoming cost-competitive with fossil fuels — they just are not quite there yet.”

— Bryan Benoit

Global Head of Energy and Natural Resources,

Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

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Rigzone

“It seems like there are more significant, impactful trends and developments to watch than ever. It might not be next week, or next month, but one development I hope to start watching is serious conversation around building out U.S. natural gas infrastructure.”

— Gerrad Heep

Partner, Energy Audit Leader, Grant Thornton LLP

Principal, Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

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Hart Energy

“You have to assume [a security breach] will happen to you one day, but make sure you have a resilient infrastructure and processes; you can respond to that really quickly [and] contain the damages really quickly.”

— Derek Han

Principal, Cybersecurity and Privacy Leader,

Risk Advisory Services,

Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

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Rigzone

“ESG is becoming the new favorite buzz word for companies looking to get ahead and/or show that they are environmentally conscious. It's unclear how much outsiders to the industry will really give credit for ESG efforts by oil and gas companies, but it's a step in the right direction.”

— Michael Osina

Principal, Tax Services,

Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

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Shale Magazine

“Planning around the complicated tax impacts of debt reorganizations and modifications can leave a company in a much better position financially as they focus on a bright future ahead.”

— Tracy Hennesy

Market Managing Principal, Houston

Principal, Tax Services,

Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

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Reuters

“The outlook for the energy industry in the near- and mid-term is very positive. One reason for optimism is that oil and gas prices remain above historical levels, while hydrocarbon demand continues to increase as renewable production is not accelerating fast enough to meet the rising demand for energy.”

— Bryan Benoit

Global Head of Energy and Natural Resources

Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

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Nick Vellani

National Managing Principal, Technology Modernization Services
Grant Thornton Advisors LLC

Nick Vellani is a principal in the Business Advisory Services practice. He has more than 14 years of IT, process improvement, internal audit and information security experience in industry and professional services.

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