Governance

Technology Cost

We optimise companies' investments in technology to maximise its returns

Covid-19 and the wave of generative AI innovations have greatly accelerated organisations’ digital transformation efforts globally. With large-scale migration to the cloud and an arms race for computing power supremacy, companies’ IT spend has also significantly increased. Businesses in Europe and the Americas are spending 12% of their revenue on IT in 2023, up from 7.5% in just 2 years.

IT costs are therefore becoming a significant part of overall financial concerns and will have a material impact on bottom-line profit. In an era of high interest rates and challenging top-line revenue growth, adequate governance over such spending to ensure maximum ROI is crucial for companies’ financial resilience.

Common Challenges

Cloud Spend

Tracking and managing cloud spend has become increasingly challenging, whether it’s for sophisticated AI compute forecasting or a small SaaS app purchased with a corporate card.

Renewal Surprises

Software vendors have been consistently raising prices, even at double digits in recent years. The shift from perpetual to subscription can also increase total cost of software ownership.

Licence Audits

Anti-piracy and license compliance audits, conducted by entities like the BSA and software vendors, have steadily increased, leading to unexpected financial burdens for CFOs.

How we can help

Adobe Subscription Optimiser

GI Adobe Subscription Optimiser actively tracks and optimises corporate Adobe subscriptions, saving up to 35% of subscription consumption.

Floating Licence Optimiser

FLO actively manages 30+ types of licence servers and 200+ engineering apps to increase the recycling rate, reducing licence spend.

IBM Licensing

From IBM licence audit defence, renewal negotiations to ILMT, ILS and IASP level Managed Services.

Licence Audit Defence

We defend licence compliance audits instigated by the Big Four (IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, and SAP) and multiple Tier 2 vendors (e.g. Quest or VMware).

SAP Licensing

From Indirect/Digital Access Risk Review, USMM and LAW reporting, deep user rights optimisation, to negotiating UDD and RISE/S4 HANA migration deal support.

Third-Party Support

We collaborate with global partners to deliver independent third-party software maintenance and support for IBM, Oracle, and SAP, reducing your software maintenance costs by 50%+.

ITAM Automation

We are a global reseller for multiple Tier 1 ITAM automation solutions and provide end-to-end specification, PoC, deployment, and fully managed ITAM automation services.

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    Why us

    Thought Leadership

    Our team has participated in ISO standards setting, represented in various industry forums and are frequent speakers at high profile conferences.

    Governance Expertise

    Our team has an average 10 years of technology governance experience covering fields such as IP protection, information security and data privacy.

    Poacher-turned Game Keeper

    Many of our team came from software sales or compliance auditing backgrounds, providing invaluable insight to cost governance and risk mitigation.

    Insights

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    How to navigate increasingly complex and dynamic IT cost with strategic agility

    How FinOps Can Drive Innovation and Competitive Advantage in an Era of Complexity.

    How to adapt to an expanding and sophisticated compliance landscape.