Continually evolving end user and customer demands are driving exponential growth in software and cloud adoption, however according to industry reports, over 33% of spend is now being wasted.
With vendors offering an ever larger range of contract, software licensing, and pricing options, it is easy to see why complexity and spend are spiralling and ROI falling. You need to be prepared for unexpected vendor audits, major contract renewals, and regular licensing true-ups. It has never been more important to understand your current licensing position, ensuring you are keeping your estate and costs optimised, and have the advantage in contract renewals and negotiations with vendors and service providers.
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First, our expert team will meet with key stakeholders in your team to define the scope and desired outcomes for the service. Our analysts will then review your current contracts, entitlements, inventory, and usage for a defined number of vendors to produce Effective License Positions (ELPs) highlighting any financial risks that need to be mitigated and cost savings opportunities that may exist.
In our report and executive presentation we also include a set of additional optimisation recommendations and a prioritised action plan. This means your software vendor management can be proactive ensuring optimised costs and clarity on your entitlements. Optimised Licence Positions (OLPs) can be created in-line with contract renewals to allow maximum benefit and license utilisation for any recommended cost savings, or provided on a regular basis to ensure continued compliance and optimisation.
We specialise in software asset management (SAM) and license compliance for hundreds of enterprise vendors including Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, IBM, Broadcom VMware, Salesforce, Adobe, and many more - helping you stay compliant, optimised, and in control.
Our team of experts will analyse your current contracts, entitlements, inventory, and usage to identify and mitigate any compliance risks. We will provide IT modernisation and optimisation opportunities for a defined vendor or vendors, typically through an Optimisation and Licensing Position (OLP). Using this baseline, we can model the implications of any major business change, project, or modernisation program on the vendor(s) licensing for a complete IT roadmap and strategy.
We can also model different scenarios by integrating updated perspectives (High-Level Design) from your organisation’s enterprise and/or infrastructure architecture with input from your Procurement and ITAM/SAM teams as well as the C-suite or Board. Using this combined data, we can apply one or more scenarios to illustrate the licensing cost and risk implications of potential decisions so you can then decide how the IT aligns to your corporate strategy and keep up efficiently with customer demand. We specialise in software asset management (SAM) and license compliance for hundreds of enterprise vendors including Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, IBM, Broadcom VMware, Salesforce, Adobe, and many more - helping you stay compliant, optimised, and in control.
Comprehensive analysis of current position, including contracts, entitlement, inventory, and usage
Definition of current licensing position(s) highlighting major risks
Optimisation recommendations for defined vendors and /or products inc. ITAM tooling
Alignment of OLP timeline with major contract renewal schedule
Analysis of defined software vendors and products (e.g. IBM, Oracle, Microsoft, Broadcom/VMware, and more)
Report & executive presentation summarises vendor specific risks, opportunities, and prioritised plan of action
Our team of ITAM experts have many years of experience and are certified in both ITAM and FinOps; we help to promote best practice and are active members of the FinOps Foundation and ITAM Forum. We empower clients to discover, optimise, & manage their software & cloud investments through our multi award-winning services and have helped our clients to save or avoid over £1bn in costs to date.
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