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The W Group utilizes its broad experience to bring to a client a solid process to review and analyze all IT software, hardware, and third-party support contacts. We help ensure our clients are receiving aggressive pricing and terms and conditions. Based on current market conditions and our experience gained from other engagements, we review contracts to determine if “best-of-breed” approaches are utilized or alternate sourcing strategies should be employed. Typically, we can demonstrate considerable savings to our client’s current contract spend or improve our client’s services through re-negotiations or alternate sourcing strategy development and implementation.
Highlights of a typical approach may include:
- Confirmation and clarification of client goals, strategies and objectives
- Review and analysis of actual client expenses and budget data
- Collaboration with appropriate business owners in determining future directions related to the contracts
- Assembly of inventory data for both IT hardware and software agreements
- Service Level Agreement (SLA) metric review and performance analysis
- Aid in the evaluation of Cloud-based contractual terms and their implications
- Review of The W Group Knowledge Base as a source of competitive market data and experience
Recommendations may include:
- Renegotiation of contracts
- Elimination of unnecessary, non-strategic software
- Elimination of under-utilized maintenance agreements
- Enhancement of third party or maintenance agreements to take advantage of new market offerings
- Restructuring and re-bidding of IT contracts
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