SAS 70 Solutions’ goal is to provide the highest quality professional services available in the industry.  In order to achieve this goal, SAS 70 Solutions has implemented a business model that varies significantly from our competitors.  By focusing on providing clients with quality services for a reasonable fee, we have distinguished ourselves from our competitors in the following ways.


Differentiators from the Global and National Accounting Firms

SAS 70 Solutions exclusively competes with the largest CPA firms in the world.  To date, over 200 companies have considered our value proposition in comparison to those of our competitors and selected SAS 70 Solutions as their service auditor of choice.  These clients have regularly informed us that they selected our services for the following reason(s):

1. » Exclusive use of experienced professionals with certified levels of
      expertise
2. » Proposed project team members that had significant levels of
      SAS 70 audit experience that far outpaced the average level of
      experience proposed by the other audit firm(s)
3. » Significant brand recognition within the industry
4. » Demonstrated ability to service clients of all sizes and across a wide
      variety of industries
5. » A concentration in the provision of SAS 70 audit services, rather
      than the generalists approach often employed by the local offices of
      larger firms
6. » Audit teams comprised of former senior consultants, managers, and
      senior managers from tier one accounting and consulting firms
7. » A refined methodology that results in the delivery of final deliverables
      within 30 days of the conclusion of a project
8. » Improved responsiveness to client requests due to a lack of
      bureaucracy that is often involved when dealing with larger
      organizations
9. » Fixed fee pricing that includes all out-of-pocket, travel and
      administrative expenses

Differentiators from Regional and Local Accounting Firms

Any properly licensed CPA firm can perform a SAS 70 audit.  However, the vast majority of SAS 70 audits are performed by SAS 70 Solutions or global and national "Top 10" accounting firms.  SAS 70 Solutions caters to service organizations that understand that the quality of professional services are dependent on the experience of the professionals that provide the service.  History has shown us that firms with limited SAS 70 experience have a tendency to market themselves as low cost providers.  We do not attempt to win engagements by simply having the lowest proposed fees, especially considering that the level of experience of our project teams towers over CPA firms that have limited SAS 70 audit experience.

On occasion, our clients considered non-national audit firms prior to selecting SAS 70 Solutions as their service auditor of choice.  Besides valuing the differentiators described above, these clients have regularly expressed to us that our company was selected over a non-national firm for the following
reason(s): 

1. » A work product that has a demonstrated history of being universally
      accepted by major corporations and their global and national financial
      audit firms 
2. » A belief that the extensive SAS 70 audit experience of the proposed
      audit team members combined with a refined methodology would
      minimize disruption to operations and produces deliverables that
      could be confidently shared with all user organizations
3. » A preference for personnel that have prior SAS 70 audit experience
      over paying for the "on the job training” of a less experienced firm's
      audit personnel
4. » The ability to perform audits without subcontracting portions of the
      work to unlicensed and/or equally inexperienced third parties
5. » Competitive fees when weighted against the lack of efficiency,
      business disruption, and work product that may result from selecting
      a firm with little or no prior SAS 70 audit experience
6. » Critical mass and proper licensure to provide services throughout
      the United States
7. » Confidence that the SAS 70 Solutions brand would be well received
      by user organizations and their financial statement auditors without
      the need to defend the selection of a regional or local audit firm