The Audit Office embarks on a new chap­ter with a strate­gic part­ner­ship and expand­ed focus for the future: The inter­na­tion­al­ly renowned IT com­pa­ny Kruger is now con­tribut­ing its exper­tise to the devel­op­ment of the orga­ni­za­tion as a co-share­hold­er. Togeth­er, Kruger and TourCert, under the Audit Office, aim to make dig­i­tal audits and cer­ti­fi­ca­tions sim­pler, more effi­cient, and glob­al­ly scal­able.

A strong part­ner­ship: Where tech­nol­o­gy meets sus­tain­abil­i­ty

The col­lab­o­ra­tion with Kruger marks a piv­otal mile­stone for the Audit Office. With its com­pre­hen­sive tech­no­log­i­cal exper­tise and glob­al pres­ence, Kruger brings sig­nif­i­cant advan­tages to the part­ner­ship. As a lead­ing IT com­pa­ny based in Ecuador, Kruger has been a trail­blaz­er in dig­i­tal solu­tions since its estab­lish­ment in 1993. With over 30 years of expe­ri­ence and more than 1,500 suc­cess­ful­ly imple­ment­ed projects across 20 coun­tries, Kruger has firm­ly posi­tioned itself as a tech­nol­o­gy pio­neer. The com­pa­ny serves numer­ous sec­tors, includ­ing tourism, agri­cul­ture, ener­gy, health­care, finances, retail, and insur­ance, pro­vid­ing its part­ners with next-gen­er­a­tion tech­nolo­gies.

Kruger’s core com­pe­ten­cies include the devel­op­ment of advanced soft­ware solu­tions, such as blockchain-based sys­tems, AI-dri­ven appli­ca­tions, and high­ly scal­able dig­i­tal plat­forms. A flag­ship project is their award-win­ning solu­tion for the trace­abil­i­ty of agri­cul­tur­al prod­ucts, which uses blockchain tech­nol­o­gy to ensure trans­paren­cy and effi­cien­cy through­out the entire sup­ply chain.

Kruger’s achieve­ments go beyond tech­no­log­i­cal inno­va­tion. The com­pa­ny sets bench­marks in sus­tain­abil­i­ty by active­ly mea­sur­ing and reduc­ing its CO₂ foot­print and pro­mot­ing eco­log­i­cal and social ini­tia­tives. This com­mit­ment has earned Kruger inter­na­tion­al recog­ni­tion, includ­ing awards, pre­sent­ed by King Felipe VI, hon­orary pres­i­dent from the Span­ish CODESPA Foun­da­tion.

Thanks to the part­ner­ship with Kruger, the Audit Office can strate­gi­cal­ly advance the dig­i­tal­iza­tion of its ser­vices. Cer­ti­fi­ca­tions based on inter­na­tion­al stan­dards such as ISO 17065 and ISO 17029 are becom­ing not only more effi­cient but also more cost-effec­tive, ben­e­fit­ing par­tic­u­lar­ly small and medi­um-sized enter­pris­es.

The Goal: Effec­tive and scal­able sus­tain­abil­i­ty solu­tions

The Audit Office pro­vides com­pre­hen­sive dig­i­tal ser­vices tai­lored to meet the increas­ing demands of sus­tain­abil­i­ty. With the “We Impact Ver­i­fied” solu­tion, SMEs are offered a ful­ly dig­i­tal plat­form that sig­nif­i­cant­ly sim­pli­fies audits while also being cost-effi­cient. For larg­er orga­ni­za­tions, the Audit Office devel­ops cus­tomized cer­ti­fi­ca­tion offer­ings that address com­plex sup­ply chains.

Anoth­er key focus is the val­i­da­tion of sus­tain­abil­i­ty data and Key Per­for­mance Indi­ca­tors (KPIs). These data-dri­ven approach­es enable busi­ness­es to pre­cise­ly mea­sure and trans­par­ent­ly com­mu­ni­cate their envi­ron­men­tal and social goals. In doing so, the Audit Office sup­ports com­pa­nies in meet­ing reg­u­la­to­ry require­ments such as the EU’s CSRD Direc­tive and posi­tions them as lead­ers in sus­tain­abil­i­ty.

Beyond tourism

While the ini­tial focus is on the tourism indus­try, the vision extends beyond that: the Audit Office aims to expand into oth­er sec­tors, help­ing com­pa­nies not only meet but exceed sus­tain­abil­i­ty stan­dards with inno­v­a­tive tech­nolo­gies.

“The part­ner­ship with Kruger is a cru­cial step in dri­ving the dig­i­tal­iza­tion of audits and pro­vid­ing our clients with even more effec­tive solu­tions,” says Mar­co Giral­do, CEO of the share­hold­er TourCert.”

Next steps

The Audit Office is ready to sup­port busi­ness­es on their path to greater sustainability—with dig­i­tal effi­cien­cy, scal­a­bil­i­ty, and cut­ting-edge tech­nol­o­gy. Togeth­er with Kruger, TourCert is com­mit­ted to the pow­er of col­lab­o­ra­tion to ush­er in a new era of audit­ing and ver­i­fi­ca­tion.