BG&A in the media [#5] - Informations Entreprise July 2025

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THE ART OF COMBINING FINANCE AND IT

Controlling IT costs while accelerating strategic transformations: a challenge that few companies successfully meet. At a time when artificial intelligence and the cloud require massive investment, reconciling innovation and financial rigor

is becoming a priority. Against this backdrop, BG&A has built a

offering that combines technological expertise, budgetary control and end-to-end operational support.

Informations Entreprise : How can today's IT departments reconcile technological innovation with budgetary constraints?

Alexandre Gay (Managing Director and Head of Delivery at BG&A): Finding the right balance today means, first and foremost, putting the notion of return on investment back at the heart of every IT project.

IT departments can no longer allow themselves to launch projects for the simple pleasure of innovation: every initiative must meet a clear business objective, with a real ROI logic. You don't do IT for IT's sake, you do IT to support business performance. This is all the more true with the current pressure around artificial intelligence: the market is driving massive investment, but you need to keep a cool head.

Every euro invested must be measured, framed and justified. Otherwise, budgets explode, and things become unmanageable. This balance doesn't come naturally: it requires real discipline in the construction of business cases, with a constant focus on the value these projects will generate.

Against this backdrop, how can finance and IT departments better align their strategies

to avoid financial slippage?

With our customers, we systematically integrate the financial dimension into the heart of IT strategy. This is a fundamental step: in the same way that technical experts are mobilized for networks or cybersecurity, we deploy experts in IT finance on all transformation projects. Their role is to work hand in hand with tech teams, from project launch through to completion, or even as part of business as usual.

This approach makes it possible to act on three major levers: firstly, negotiating with service providers to adjust costs as closely as possible; secondly, identifying under-utilized technological resources to eliminate them without impacting teams; and thirdly, taking strategic decisions, such as moving to the cloud or adopting new technologies, particularly generative AI. It's this triptych that guarantees high-performance, agile and financially optimized IT.