Your Next Software Investment Could Be Your Greatest Challenge – Are You Prepared?
The software purchasing process is more than a challenge - it's a complex risk, especially when under the pressure of today's IT cost management and budget imperatives. To reduce IT vendor costs, it's critical to understand each vendor's flexibility in all aspects of the agreement - from licensing and hosting to maintenance and support.
From price benchmarking and procurement analysis to supplier management, NPI's IT spend management experts perform the following services to ensure your next software agreement delivers long-term value at a minimal cost:
- Application Portfolio Inventory & Benchmarking: NPI conducts an IT audit of your full portfolio of software applications to determine cost saving opportunities and pitfalls, while benchmarking contractual performance of critical applications.
- Software License Acquisition Analysis: NPI's IT spend management experts analyze optimal licensing volumes based on your strategic business and technological needs. Our licensing specialists review and advise the best practices for procuring specific software tools and applications, while uncovering new IT cost cutting ideas.
- Maintenance & Support Cost Reviews: To reduce IT maintenance costs, NPI reviews all software contracts to ensure maintenance and support costs are in line with fair market value and are appropriate based on your individual needs. Through our IT contract management best practices, we help you prevent dangerous "maintenance creep" within your portfolio.
- Application Licensing Benchmarks: Our experts establish and analyze key benchmarks for your licensing strategy to determine its success and discover cost and operational savings opportunities.
- Software Acquisition & Maintenance Program Reviews: NPI evaluates each client's software purchasing and maintenance program. This enables the client to identify problem areas in purchasing efficiency, cost effectiveness, contractual compliance and maintenance agreements and strategy.
- Application Development & Integration Professional Fee Reviews: Our pricing experts analyze cost proposals for software development and application integration services to ensure you pay and receive fair market value.
- Application Licensing Model Analysis: NPI analyzes your core business and technology strategies to help you determine the best licensing model for your operations - whether it's SaaS, on demand, client-server or mobile. By integrating this analysis into your IT purchasing process, NPI is able to reduce IT vendor costs and drive operational cost reductions throughout your enterprise.
- Application Hosting Benchmarks: NPI develops, monitors and executes benchmarking processes to ensure the effectiveness of your application hosting methods.
- Outsourcing Analysis: NPI's application experts help you analyze and determine your application outsourcing needs as well as the cost effectiveness of your current outsourcing vendor relationships.
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