Announcing CobiT: ProActive's newest course offering!

As Australasia's longest serving ITIL training provider, ProActive is renowned for delivering a variety of quality ITIL courses from Foundation level right through to Expert Certification.

ProActive also offer complementary courses which are designed to supplement the learning outcomes taught in the V3 stream.

Whilst not a prerequisite to achieving the ITIL Expert Certification, these courses allow ITSM professionals the chance to broaden the scope of their ITIL learning and understanding whilst putting them that one step ahead in a competitive industry.

The newest of ProActive's complementary courses is CobiT; a framework that provides organisations with the necessary controls, processes and information to guide the implementation of IT Governance. Organisations are increasingly turning to CobiT as the importance of IT Governance is being rapidly being acknowledged as a vital element to achieving business strategy.

What is IT Governance?

In basic terms, IT Governance is a set of structures and processes that allow an organisation's IT and business strategies to align. Through the implementation of IT Governance, an organisation is better equipped to achieve its strategies and goals whilst tracking the success of its IT function.

Central to IT Governance is reducing or eliminating the incidence of risk, managing resources, measuring IT performance, strategic alignment and ensuring IT delivers its intended value to the organisation. It is integral to those organisations who would suffer from lost, damaged or leaked data or those that are bound by external authorities and standards such as Public Records Acts, audit requirements, data protection/privacy etc.

Why does your organisation need it?

With an average of 40-55% of IT projects failing or having no discernable benefits, Governance is integral to every organisation no matter its size.

If implemented successfully, Governance can provide the following benefits to an organisation:

• reduce wasteful spend on clumsy mistakes
• prevent loss of important data and records
• compliance with several standards and authorities
• make IT more responsive to business needs
• guide the success of IT initiatives
• reduces risk of IT failure.

Click here to find out more about CobiT training.