Operational IT Tail Management

Hammonds Consultancy provides an outsourced OPEX Management Service to consolidate suppliers and target savings from an agreed OPEX baseline. Like vendors sales targets, In- house sourcing teams have their own annual saving targets. Hammonds Consultancy takes ownership of the Tail expenditure, giving our clients’ sourcing team time to manage the strategic and higher value CAPEX and OPEX expenditure. Working with the organisations Asset Management, Vendor Management, Stakeholders and Sourcing teams we create a process of governance and best practise to reduce costs through a diligent approval process. Once objectives and targets are reached, a savings Gain Share model incentivises both parties to be creative and commercially focussed.

Software Services

Software vendors have, over time, constructed ever more complex licensing models in order that enterprises have little option but to agree the terms they are dealt. And yet with this enormous contractual complexity comes the opportunity for every enterprise to leverage significant savings.

By harnessing the very mechanics inherent in today’s software licensing agreements, Hammonds Consultancy can help you reduce the cost of software licensing.

Hammond Consultancy specialise in the benchmarking of software licensing agreements. We also have a thorough understanding of hardware platforms, local and global bid mechanics, as well as sometimes hidden cash back opportunities. This knowledge helps to maximise virtualisation, processor and socket options to find savings when software is associated with hardware.

We are able to assist in the negotiation of new licenses, help in the renegotiation of enterprise agreements, extract maximum value from mid-term true-ups and restructure existing agreements.

Hammonds Consultancy can reduce the cost of ad-hoc software purchasing and in the negotiation and structuring of on-going software maintenance agreements.

We are also able to provide a comprehensive audit of enterprise software licensing - delivering you an optimised licensing strategy.

In this tough economic environment, with declining budgets, IT is expected to do more with less. With cost, resource, and time pressures, how do you ensure continued innovation, while meeting your service level agreements (SLA's)?

By taking control of your IT and datacenter with Virtualisation you can see the immediate, quantifiable cost savings, while ensuring true business agility—the ability to rapidly respond to the changing market environment:

Virtual infrastructure provides immediate, tangible and quantifiable cost savings from your datacenter to your desktop. You can reduce capital and operational expenses, while minimizing any potential lost revenue associated with downtime, outages and failures