Approach & Benefits
Inventory current environment
We look at your current usage for either your whole organization or a subset. You might be over licensed for services you have bought but do not need. The key deliverable is your effective license position.
Identification of new business requirements
Renewing your Enterprise Agreement is an opportune time to review your current usage and how this might evolve. In this phase we examine what your IT and business stakeholders are working on that might affect your software requirements. The key deliverable in this phase is a clear outline of your future IT requirements.
Bill of Materials / Benchmarking & Pricing
We present different scenarios based on your current and future needs, with guidelines for how to decide the best option.
The key deliverable is the bill of material, which we can benchmark to current market standards.
Negotiation strategy
As an optional service, we can help you develop a negotiation and procurement strategy. As former successful Microsoft negotiators, we can explain the tactics they use and ways you can make your position more favorable.
We offer this as either a backend service, where we advise you on how to proceed, or we can take an active approach and take a seat at the table in your name.
Benefit: Smart agreements
We strive for our clients to achieve future-proofed agreements that go beyond pricing discounts, ensuring optimal value and minimal risk of additional spend. Our focus areas include software licensing flexibility, expected future demand and optimal agreement duration.
Benefit: Market insights
Level the playing field by using our first-hand knowledge of contract negotiation results between Microsoft and their enterprise customers. We help you to understand the agreement options Microsoft typically proposes as well as agreement clauses that they do not proactively offer.