What is the service?
Done in preparation for your annual renewal, this service includes:
- Establishing a baseline for your current deployment of software, including installation and actual usage.
- Optimizing strategic use of existing products. In the case of IBM, the publisher is promoting specific strategic directions for hardware, software, and services such as virtualization and Cloud services. Using new metrics for existing software to align with these strategic directions can create significant cost reductions as well as increased efficiencies.
- Rightsizing footprints for specific products and uninstalling unnecessary software to reduce costs.
- Identifying licensing gaps by comparing your baseline of installs and usage with your entitlements.
- Identifying compliance issues associated with planned upgrades and changes to hardware and services in IT environment.
- Making recommendations for rightsizing your Renewal Contract based on the above as well as corporate strategic objectives.
- Generating recommendations for remediation of compliance issues in conjunction with upcoming Renewal.
Why is this important?
- Significant cost reduction and cost avoidance are the major benefits of using the above services.
- It is important that you maintain your ability to make software decisions per your budget and strategic planning process vs. being obligated to make significant unexpected and unbudgeted purchases in response to audit settlement demands.