As a SAP Gold Partner, we believe it is important, not only to understand
your needs, but also to understand the future goals of your company. Our goal
is to make sure you understand what you own and your contractual obligations.
Our goal is to create an optimal buying strategy that delivers value. Our
objective is to make our customers stronger through commitment and ownership in
their success. To achieve this we will help manage both of these over time,
creating and implementing an optimal buying strategy that delivers the most
cost efficient solutions, while building the vendor partnerships you want and
deserve.
Our methodology takes us through several processes allowing us to fully
understand your environment, contracts, business requirements, desired vendor
relationships and actual software usage. We utilize the information gathered to
build a license management and buying strategy which will maximize your
software and IT investments.
Steps:
- We discuss and analyze your
environment to fully understand your applications, users, hardware and
architecture so we can build an accurate topology of existing and
potential future environments.
- We interview the appropriate
parties to understand your existing and desired vendor relationships.
- We analyze all your existing
contracts to understand what you own and your contractual obligations.
- We create a comprehensive
spreadsheet listing your full environment, including software usage and
actual software licenses.
- We create a comprehensive binder
with all contracts put in chronological order so you have accurate records
which can be easily accessed.
- A findings report is created
which communicates compliance with existing contracts, optimal licensing
recommendations and details of all information gathered during the
process.
Phase 1:
In-Depth Investigation Interview the User Community to
Determine Usage and Future Needs
Our interview process enables us to become experts on your internal systems.
It is critical to have a firm grasp of your architecture, application types,
users, usage cycles, growth or consolidation plans and disaster recovery
strategies. This information allows us to combine quantitative and qualitative
data to deliver a more accurate analysis—and help you to better plan for the future.
Interview Appropriate Parties to Understand Existing and
Desired Vendor Relationships
Through discussions on the current state of your relationships with your
vendors, we are able to help mend or enhance those relationships with creative
ideas which are beneficial to both parties.
Understand Your Current License Landscape
Our consultants review your existing contracts and licensing agreements to
discover products, license types, terms and conditions. They build a license
history synopsis, listing all contracts and orders in chronological order and
whether they were customized for your particular business and architectural
environment.
Phase 2: Reporting
Create the License Inventory Report
This report includes the name of each server, the number of processors per
server, the application(s) database or application each server is supporting,
the named user population, concurrent usage estimates, existing licenses
allocated and the license number associated with each license.
Comprehensive Binder with Contracts in Chronological Order
All software contracts you have entered into are placed into a consolidated
binder for easy access. Not only can this binder be used as a reference, but it
can also be used for audit purposes.
Evaluate and Determine Compliance
We use the information gathered through evaluating existing contracts,
conducting cross-network verification, and interviewing the user community to
determine license compliance.
Optimize Licensing Metrics and Purchase Strategy
Our consultants then analyze how licenses are currently allocated and
predict future needs, future architecture and hardware changes. They create a
succinct summary report of the best and most cost-effective ways to optimize
your license environment going forward.
Findings Report
From our extensive information gathering and analysis of your licenses, we
provide a findings report which delivers your state of compliance with existing
contracts, our recommendations for optimal licensing and all of the steps taken
to determine the findings.
