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Hardware-Software

The Alsbridge Hardware-Software Practice offers a unique set of services geared at helping our clients gain control, mitigate risk and reduce spend of their IT Assets.  In 2011, Alsbridge clients saved on average over 24% on the hardware and software spend they engaged Alsbridge to manage.  Depending on your organization’s needs, Alsbridge can engage clients in short projects aimed at cost reduction (software and hardware procurement) as well as more comprehensive engagements around IT asset management and software license compliance.

Most IT professionals do not have the market pricing information to know whether their software, hardware and hardware maintenance contracts are at or above the market price.  And most software and hardware procurement departments lack resource capacity to adequately manage each and every agreement in today’s diverse IT landscape.  Combine that with increasing complexity in software licensing models, spend tolerance that accepts year over year maintenance fee increases, and the transactional relationships built with most incumbent providers and it should surprise no one to learn that most organizations are paying far more than they should for software, hardware and hardware maintenance agreements.

Our consultants can augment your existing software and hardware procurement teams by leveraging deep experience, the industry-leading pricing and contract database and our proprietary sourcing methodology to identify and execute against areas of opportunity in your existing hardware and software spend.

Services

• Software Procurement
• Hardware Procurement
• Hardware Maintenance Procurement
• IT Asset Management Strategy
• IT Asset Management Transformation
• Software License Compliance Consulting

Methodology

Our data-driven software and hardware procurement methodology ensures consistent outcomes at each Alsbridge client.  Our tools, templates and processes have been honed over the course of 100s of software and hardware procurement engagements conducted over 5+ years.  Our IT asset management and software license compliance methodologies are tool agnostic allowing us to take an unbiased view of your total landscape and help examine how to protect what investments you’ve already made, and advise you on how to move forward.  Our methodology provides the structure for efficient engagements with consistent outcomes while allowing for the flexibility needed to accommodate each individual client’s situation and preferred approach.

Experienced Team

Our hardware-software team includes over 30 individuals with 20+ year careers in sourcing, procurement and IT on both the buy-side at Fortune 500 companies and sell-side of leading hardware and software vendors.  Alsbridge’s insider knowledge can provide transparency to the market and our prowess at the negotiating table can help your business save money on your hardware and software purchases.  Alsbridge’s consultants come from all over the world, with a broad range of professional backgrounds and functional disciplines.   Every client receives a team of experts with deep experience in their industry vertical and subject matter expertise in the hardware/software in scope.  Every one of our consultants has received comprehensive training in the use of our methodology, tools and templates and is required to contribute back to our knowledge repository to ensure continuous improvement of best practices.

The Alsbridge Difference

In contrast to many of our competitors, Alsbridge does not take fees – or compensation in any other form – from hardware or software vendors.  Our team is completely unbiased ensuring we recommend the right product for you and negotiate a fair market price.  We help our clients to establish sustainable, mutually beneficial relationships by building internal stakeholder consensus, fostering a collaborative process and advising our clients on internal changes needed to optimize the way they work with their vendors.  Our database has more data, our team has more experience and our methodology ensures consistent outcomes.   Leveraging all three ensures you get to the optimal outcome in the shortest amount of time.
Contact us today to learn more about how Alsbridge can help you achieve your objectives.