Case Study: Grant Thornton International achieves streamlined, higher-quality global audit delivery with Microsoft Azure

Grant Thornton International Limited Rebuilds a Mission-critical Application to Optimize Audit Delivery

Grant Thornton, a global professional services network with roughly 42,000 employees and a large audit practice used by more than 20,000 auditors, needed to replace a dated, inflexible mission‑critical audit application that forced manual tailoring for different countries and clients and limited efficiency, quality and responsiveness amid rapidly changing regulations and stakeholder expectations.

Partnering with Microsoft Services, Grant Thornton rebuilt the tool as a centralized, cloud‑based application on Azure using 14 iterative sprints. The new solution delivers a single‑file, configurable, mobile‑friendly audit workflow that enables targeted, risk‑based audits, easier global collaboration and faster regulatory updates — improving audit quality, auditor experience and client satisfaction while driving greater efficiency and future profitable growth.

Grant Thornton International

Antony Nettleton

Global Leader - Assurance Services