The Softmart Analytics Advantage Program provides a comprehensive approach to reducing software licensing costs by conducting a fact-based analysis of a company's Microsoft licensing. The process involves 4 phases: inventory and renewal snapshot to consolidate licensing data; roadmap and blueprint to identify adoption patterns and financial plan; analysis of past agreement performance; and scenario analysis considering gross costs, net agreement value, benefits, risks, cash flows, and risk scoring to provide scenario scorecards and recommendations. The goal is to align Microsoft licensing with business and technology needs while optimizing costs.
Why Technology Will Shape the Future of the Sell SideFIS
As the sell side faces a myriad of challenges, technology will be a deciding factor in future success.
In our latest slideshow, we look at three steps to help banks and broker-dealers prepare for what lies ahead:
• Protect your business – take charge of risk and compliance
• Operate with scale – manage escalating costs and protect margins for sustainable growth
• Simplify complexity – get ahead of change with efficient processes and informed decision-making
To learn more, view our slideshow.
The document discusses risks associated with common practices in the construction industry. Main contracts typically last 12-36 months and involve 5-25 staff. Each project phase includes around 200 sub-contracts with 25 attachments each. Over 3,000 interim payments must be certified before the final accounts. Approval from 4-6 members is needed for every contract and payment. Without a proper system, key data can go missing, legal compliance is weak, financial estimates are uncertain, and internal fraud is possible. Confidential data may also leak and anyone can change or delete calculations or data when using unsecured systems like spreadsheets.
The Risk Avoidance Program (RAP) by eSafetySystems aims to improve safety, risk management, productivity, accountability, and compliance while reducing injuries and liability for general contractors. The RAP centralizes safety management of all contractors and subcontractors. It also monitors subcontractors' safety discipline and adherence to program requirements. Superior communication is achieved through tools for document management, reports collection, and alerts. The integrated solutions help optimize safety and risk management processes. The program provides leading indicators of performance rather than traditional lagging metrics, allowing early intervention for poorly performing contractors. The unique communication process offers data collection and analytical reports to enhance visibility into safety processes and minimize losses.
EXL- Insurance transformation through Digital BlueprintAshish Kumar
EXL have developed the Digital BluePRINT which identifies all transformational opportunities across the whole value chain. The EXLerator framework focuses on areas which are critical to achieving the clients’ business goals, whilst creating value, improving process efficiency and reducing operational costs for their customers.’
Duplicate Payments Analysis - FTSE100 construction companyAlex Psarras
The client’s accounts payable function is managed via their Finance application, DEMA. Due to data quality issues a risk of duplicate payments was identified. We were commissioned to develop ACL scripts to help mitigate this risk.
The document discusses various techniques for motivating employees, including setting specific and measurable goals, providing recognition and rewards for achievements, ensuring employees feel respected and responsible for their work, and creating an environment where employees can develop new skills. It emphasizes that different employees have different needs, so managers should understand each person and provide opportunities for growth, rather than trying to motivate with a single approach.
Why Technology Will Shape the Future of the Sell SideFIS
As the sell side faces a myriad of challenges, technology will be a deciding factor in future success.
In our latest slideshow, we look at three steps to help banks and broker-dealers prepare for what lies ahead:
• Protect your business – take charge of risk and compliance
• Operate with scale – manage escalating costs and protect margins for sustainable growth
• Simplify complexity – get ahead of change with efficient processes and informed decision-making
To learn more, view our slideshow.
The document discusses risks associated with common practices in the construction industry. Main contracts typically last 12-36 months and involve 5-25 staff. Each project phase includes around 200 sub-contracts with 25 attachments each. Over 3,000 interim payments must be certified before the final accounts. Approval from 4-6 members is needed for every contract and payment. Without a proper system, key data can go missing, legal compliance is weak, financial estimates are uncertain, and internal fraud is possible. Confidential data may also leak and anyone can change or delete calculations or data when using unsecured systems like spreadsheets.
The Risk Avoidance Program (RAP) by eSafetySystems aims to improve safety, risk management, productivity, accountability, and compliance while reducing injuries and liability for general contractors. The RAP centralizes safety management of all contractors and subcontractors. It also monitors subcontractors' safety discipline and adherence to program requirements. Superior communication is achieved through tools for document management, reports collection, and alerts. The integrated solutions help optimize safety and risk management processes. The program provides leading indicators of performance rather than traditional lagging metrics, allowing early intervention for poorly performing contractors. The unique communication process offers data collection and analytical reports to enhance visibility into safety processes and minimize losses.
EXL- Insurance transformation through Digital BlueprintAshish Kumar
EXL have developed the Digital BluePRINT which identifies all transformational opportunities across the whole value chain. The EXLerator framework focuses on areas which are critical to achieving the clients’ business goals, whilst creating value, improving process efficiency and reducing operational costs for their customers.’
Duplicate Payments Analysis - FTSE100 construction companyAlex Psarras
The client’s accounts payable function is managed via their Finance application, DEMA. Due to data quality issues a risk of duplicate payments was identified. We were commissioned to develop ACL scripts to help mitigate this risk.
The document discusses various techniques for motivating employees, including setting specific and measurable goals, providing recognition and rewards for achievements, ensuring employees feel respected and responsible for their work, and creating an environment where employees can develop new skills. It emphasizes that different employees have different needs, so managers should understand each person and provide opportunities for growth, rather than trying to motivate with a single approach.
Chase Cooper Ltd provides a fully integrated operational risk management solution called aCCelerate. The software is purpose-built for operational risk and highly configurable, allowing for rapid deployment typically within days. It is also highly scalable and can accommodate any number of user licenses. Some key clients include GE Money, Threadneedle Investments, and Millennium BCP.
Building Business Capabilities and Improving the Application Landscape
1. Balance Decision Making: Top-down for business capabilities; bottom-up effective landscape
2. 3 Categories are used for building the IT budget: Assign metrics that drive prioritization based on business outcomes
3. New projects should balance new capability with business risk
4. Improve landscape: accelerate time to market
5. Improve landscape: budget for high availability of critical applications and improve runtime performance
6. Improve Landscape: Strive to reduce business risks caused by application vulnerabilities
7. Improve Landscape: Prepare for dynamic staffing models
8. Improve landscape: Reduce applications support cost
9. Break Fix
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Integrated Receivables: 5 Critical Factors For Adoption3 Point Alliance
In this paper, we outline five critical factors for adopting an Integrated Receivables (IR) solution that would provide many benefits to companies looking to streamline receivables processing such as cash acceleration and increasing straight-through processing (STP) rates. We discuss how the payments landscape is changing for AR/AP professionals and why companies have been slow to adopt integrated receivables.
The business case for software analysis & measurementCAST
As software becomes more integrated into our daily lives, companies are finding that visibility into the systems that run their business has many benefits: reduces business risks, increases revenue, and improves IT spending.
This whitepaper provides a framework for capturing the impact of software analytics on your business and a worksheet to help you create your own business case. Leaders that can clearly articulate this value are more successful than their peers in obtaining strategic support and funding for software analytics.
Running head: RISK ASSESMENT AND MILESTONE 1
RISK ASSESMENT AND MILESTONE
4
Risk assessment, milestone and contingency plans
Floyd Cooper III
MGT – 660
Dr. T
09-24-2014
Risk assessment
Risk assessment process describes the various techniques of determining the risks that Microsoft project faces from project start-up. The severity/impact and frequency of attack forms the basis of risk assessment. The understanding of the risks helps to device contingency plans and other risk prevention and mitigation mechanisms. Major risks facing the project includes price of resources fluctuation due to inflation, insufficient finance, failure of project completion on time and inadequate skilled work force. Microsoft has developed contingency plans to shield itself from the above risks.
Milestone schedule
Typically, the completion of activities in any project involves a stage-by-stage process known as milestone. The developmental process of Microsoft’s windows version 8.1 involves a sequential process as outlined below.
Project milestone
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Milestone Schedule
YEAR 2014/2015 (MONTHS)
ACTIVITIES
SEPT
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAV
FEB
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEPT
Windows 8.1 initiation
Windows 8.1 development planning
Windows 8.1 requirement analysis
Windows 8.1 design
Windows 8.1 development planning
Windows 8.1 integration and testing
Windows 8.1 implementation
Windows 8.1 operation and maintenance
Windows 8.1 Evaluation
launching the windows 8.1
TOTAL DURATION
Contingency plans
Almost all the projects experience some deviations in time, cost and resources (Caron, 2013). The deviations may impede the project in terms of completion time. The Microsoft project manager has developed several measures in case the project does not go on as planned. They includes developing a contingency budget, procuring extra system development resources to cater for normal and abnormal losses, beginning as many activities as possible simultaneously to ensure project completion on time and conducting a proper risk assessment analysis.
Reference
Caron, F. (2013). Project Risk Analysis. In Managing the Continuum: Certainty, Uncertainty, Unpredictability in Large Engineering Projects (pp. 57-65). Springer Milan.
Financial Plan1
Financial Plan2
Financial Plan
Floyd Cooper III
MGT-660
09-17-2014
Microsoft Inc. financial plan
Overview
With the headquarters in Redmond Washington, Microsoft is a multinational company that manufactures, develops, supports licenses and sells computer software, personal computer, consumer electronics and services.
Mission
The organization mission and values is to aid people and businesses through the world recognize their full potential. We exist to maintain and attract customers. When we observe this maxim, the rest will fall into the right.
Six Sigma is a data-driven approach to process improvement that can be applied to software development projects. It focuses on reducing defects by measuring and analyzing the production process. The document discusses:
1) How Six Sigma principles of focusing on customers, process orientation, and metrics-driven leadership can increase transparency and improve estimation accuracy for software projects.
2) Implementing Six Sigma for software involves measuring customer-related metrics, adjusting to changing targets, and enforcing measurement rather than targets.
3) A case study where a company achieved on-time delivery and fewer defects by tracking the six steps of each deliverable's completion using objective metrics.
Emerging Trends in Accounting 08 Digital Transformation of Accounting-Big Data Analytics in Accounting-Cloud Computing in accounting- - Green Accounting-Human Resource Accounting, Inflation Accounting, Database Accounting
The document describes a computer program that automates the selection of profitable covered call options trades. The program evaluates all available covered call options across major exchanges daily to select the most profitable opportunities based on probability calculations. It aims to provide consistent investment returns for all investor levels through this strategy. Private funding is sought to further test and develop the program, with the goal of average returns of 10-15% per month.
Take your financial future into your hands! 10% ROI per month with conservative stock strategies. Creating a subscription based program that selects the MOST profitable covered calls, credit spreads, iron condors, inverted butterflies and more. Be part of the beginning!
Building Value - Understanding the TCO and ROI of Apache Kafka & Confluentconfluent
For a product or service to be cost effective, it must be considered to be good value, where the benefits are worth at least what is paid for them. But how do we measure this, to prove the case? Given that value can be intangible, it can be hard to quantify and may have little relationship to cost. Added to this, the open source nature of Apache Kafka means that many companies skip the requirement to build a business case for it, until it has become mission critical and demands financial and human resources.
In this presentation, Lyndon Hedderly, Team Lead of Business Value Consulting at Confluent, will cover how Confluent works with customers to measure the business value of data streaming.
This presentation provides an example and specific sources for data to demonstrate measureable iprovments in productivity, quality and customer satisfaction.
The document discusses Solvency II, a European Union directive that aims to update insurance regulation. It has three pillars: quantitative requirements, governance/risk management, and disclosure. Complying requires overhauling financial applications and technology. Thinksoft can help insurers understand requirements, adopt the right IT model, prepare for compliance, and provide expert guidance on Solvency II. Their approach involves identifying objectives, resolving issues holistically, and understanding insurance business and Solvency II in detail.
This document outlines a 4-step approach to comprehensive software management: 1) Assessment to understand current software usage and licensing, 2) Validation of strategic plans through proof of concepts and ROI analysis, 3) Deployment with implementation plans and knowledge transfer, and 4) Ongoing Management through health checks, license compliance and software renewals. CDW's Total Software Management service provides experts to guide organizations through each step and help maximize value from software investments over the long term.
The document discusses various types of metrics used to measure different aspects of systems, products, and processes. It describes design metrics that evaluate risks and costs of system designs. It also outlines software metrics like lines of code and function points, hardware metrics like transistor ratios, and process metrics that provide insights into workflows and quality. Product metrics are discussed as a way to assess projects, risks, problems, and quality control.
The document discusses the Application Sustainability Assessment Framework (ASAF) developed by the Canada Revenue Agency to assess the sustainability of its aging application portfolio. It provides an overview of the ASAF process which involves measuring sustainability metrics, analyzing measurements to determine overall sustainability scores, communicating results, managing risks, and improving over time. The ASAF aims to understand sustainability constraints posed by business needs, architecture, and operations to inform planning and reduce costs of application ownership.
The document discusses the risks associated with the launch of the Microsoft Surface tablet in 2012 and the team's risk management plan. The team identified risks such as issues with common OEM partners, product malfunctions, low customer adoption, loss of reputation, advancing competitor technology, and high defect rates. They analyzed the risks qualitatively using a probability/impact matrix and quantitatively with an example tornado diagram. Their risk response plan was to mitigate risks through actions like signing contracts with partners, improved testing, enhancing usability, timely updates, research & development, and staff training.
The document discusses applying 6 Sigma methodology to software development processes. It outlines the software development life cycle and quality models like CMM, ITIL and Method-1. It proposes using 6 Sigma to select new work, ITIL for production support, and CMM/Method-1 for the development life cycle. A case study is presented to identify, measure, reduce and audit the costs of software defects by fixing them earlier in the development process using DMAIC. Data would be collected from project reviews and testing to analyze defect origination and costs. The goal is to decrease development and support costs by finding and fixing defects earlier.
Emerging Technologies - The Future Of Finance (CIMA Feb 2019)Michael Sadler
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Chase Cooper Ltd provides a fully integrated operational risk management solution called aCCelerate. The software is purpose-built for operational risk and highly configurable, allowing for rapid deployment typically within days. It is also highly scalable and can accommodate any number of user licenses. Some key clients include GE Money, Threadneedle Investments, and Millennium BCP.
Building Business Capabilities and Improving the Application Landscape
1. Balance Decision Making: Top-down for business capabilities; bottom-up effective landscape
2. 3 Categories are used for building the IT budget: Assign metrics that drive prioritization based on business outcomes
3. New projects should balance new capability with business risk
4. Improve landscape: accelerate time to market
5. Improve landscape: budget for high availability of critical applications and improve runtime performance
6. Improve Landscape: Strive to reduce business risks caused by application vulnerabilities
7. Improve Landscape: Prepare for dynamic staffing models
8. Improve landscape: Reduce applications support cost
9. Break Fix
Continuous Delivery Operating Model for Insurers: Building a Software “Value-...Cognizant
To compete with digital start-ups, established insurers need to build a streamlined, waste-free pipeline for rapid software delivery. We recommend an integrated approach to the four types of change needed: culture, process, engineering practices and platforms.
Integrated Receivables: 5 Critical Factors For Adoption3 Point Alliance
In this paper, we outline five critical factors for adopting an Integrated Receivables (IR) solution that would provide many benefits to companies looking to streamline receivables processing such as cash acceleration and increasing straight-through processing (STP) rates. We discuss how the payments landscape is changing for AR/AP professionals and why companies have been slow to adopt integrated receivables.
The business case for software analysis & measurementCAST
As software becomes more integrated into our daily lives, companies are finding that visibility into the systems that run their business has many benefits: reduces business risks, increases revenue, and improves IT spending.
This whitepaper provides a framework for capturing the impact of software analytics on your business and a worksheet to help you create your own business case. Leaders that can clearly articulate this value are more successful than their peers in obtaining strategic support and funding for software analytics.
Running head: RISK ASSESMENT AND MILESTONE 1
RISK ASSESMENT AND MILESTONE
4
Risk assessment, milestone and contingency plans
Floyd Cooper III
MGT – 660
Dr. T
09-24-2014
Risk assessment
Risk assessment process describes the various techniques of determining the risks that Microsoft project faces from project start-up. The severity/impact and frequency of attack forms the basis of risk assessment. The understanding of the risks helps to device contingency plans and other risk prevention and mitigation mechanisms. Major risks facing the project includes price of resources fluctuation due to inflation, insufficient finance, failure of project completion on time and inadequate skilled work force. Microsoft has developed contingency plans to shield itself from the above risks.
Milestone schedule
Typically, the completion of activities in any project involves a stage-by-stage process known as milestone. The developmental process of Microsoft’s windows version 8.1 involves a sequential process as outlined below.
Project milestone
Microsoft Windows 8.1 Milestone Schedule
YEAR 2014/2015 (MONTHS)
ACTIVITIES
SEPT
OCT
NOV
DEC
JAV
FEB
APR
MAY
JUN
JUL
AUG
SEPT
Windows 8.1 initiation
Windows 8.1 development planning
Windows 8.1 requirement analysis
Windows 8.1 design
Windows 8.1 development planning
Windows 8.1 integration and testing
Windows 8.1 implementation
Windows 8.1 operation and maintenance
Windows 8.1 Evaluation
launching the windows 8.1
TOTAL DURATION
Contingency plans
Almost all the projects experience some deviations in time, cost and resources (Caron, 2013). The deviations may impede the project in terms of completion time. The Microsoft project manager has developed several measures in case the project does not go on as planned. They includes developing a contingency budget, procuring extra system development resources to cater for normal and abnormal losses, beginning as many activities as possible simultaneously to ensure project completion on time and conducting a proper risk assessment analysis.
Reference
Caron, F. (2013). Project Risk Analysis. In Managing the Continuum: Certainty, Uncertainty, Unpredictability in Large Engineering Projects (pp. 57-65). Springer Milan.
Financial Plan1
Financial Plan2
Financial Plan
Floyd Cooper III
MGT-660
09-17-2014
Microsoft Inc. financial plan
Overview
With the headquarters in Redmond Washington, Microsoft is a multinational company that manufactures, develops, supports licenses and sells computer software, personal computer, consumer electronics and services.
Mission
The organization mission and values is to aid people and businesses through the world recognize their full potential. We exist to maintain and attract customers. When we observe this maxim, the rest will fall into the right.
Six Sigma is a data-driven approach to process improvement that can be applied to software development projects. It focuses on reducing defects by measuring and analyzing the production process. The document discusses:
1) How Six Sigma principles of focusing on customers, process orientation, and metrics-driven leadership can increase transparency and improve estimation accuracy for software projects.
2) Implementing Six Sigma for software involves measuring customer-related metrics, adjusting to changing targets, and enforcing measurement rather than targets.
3) A case study where a company achieved on-time delivery and fewer defects by tracking the six steps of each deliverable's completion using objective metrics.
Emerging Trends in Accounting 08 Digital Transformation of Accounting-Big Data Analytics in Accounting-Cloud Computing in accounting- - Green Accounting-Human Resource Accounting, Inflation Accounting, Database Accounting
The document describes a computer program that automates the selection of profitable covered call options trades. The program evaluates all available covered call options across major exchanges daily to select the most profitable opportunities based on probability calculations. It aims to provide consistent investment returns for all investor levels through this strategy. Private funding is sought to further test and develop the program, with the goal of average returns of 10-15% per month.
Take your financial future into your hands! 10% ROI per month with conservative stock strategies. Creating a subscription based program that selects the MOST profitable covered calls, credit spreads, iron condors, inverted butterflies and more. Be part of the beginning!
Building Value - Understanding the TCO and ROI of Apache Kafka & Confluentconfluent
For a product or service to be cost effective, it must be considered to be good value, where the benefits are worth at least what is paid for them. But how do we measure this, to prove the case? Given that value can be intangible, it can be hard to quantify and may have little relationship to cost. Added to this, the open source nature of Apache Kafka means that many companies skip the requirement to build a business case for it, until it has become mission critical and demands financial and human resources.
In this presentation, Lyndon Hedderly, Team Lead of Business Value Consulting at Confluent, will cover how Confluent works with customers to measure the business value of data streaming.
This presentation provides an example and specific sources for data to demonstrate measureable iprovments in productivity, quality and customer satisfaction.
The document discusses Solvency II, a European Union directive that aims to update insurance regulation. It has three pillars: quantitative requirements, governance/risk management, and disclosure. Complying requires overhauling financial applications and technology. Thinksoft can help insurers understand requirements, adopt the right IT model, prepare for compliance, and provide expert guidance on Solvency II. Their approach involves identifying objectives, resolving issues holistically, and understanding insurance business and Solvency II in detail.
This document outlines a 4-step approach to comprehensive software management: 1) Assessment to understand current software usage and licensing, 2) Validation of strategic plans through proof of concepts and ROI analysis, 3) Deployment with implementation plans and knowledge transfer, and 4) Ongoing Management through health checks, license compliance and software renewals. CDW's Total Software Management service provides experts to guide organizations through each step and help maximize value from software investments over the long term.
The document discusses various types of metrics used to measure different aspects of systems, products, and processes. It describes design metrics that evaluate risks and costs of system designs. It also outlines software metrics like lines of code and function points, hardware metrics like transistor ratios, and process metrics that provide insights into workflows and quality. Product metrics are discussed as a way to assess projects, risks, problems, and quality control.
The document discusses the Application Sustainability Assessment Framework (ASAF) developed by the Canada Revenue Agency to assess the sustainability of its aging application portfolio. It provides an overview of the ASAF process which involves measuring sustainability metrics, analyzing measurements to determine overall sustainability scores, communicating results, managing risks, and improving over time. The ASAF aims to understand sustainability constraints posed by business needs, architecture, and operations to inform planning and reduce costs of application ownership.
The document discusses the risks associated with the launch of the Microsoft Surface tablet in 2012 and the team's risk management plan. The team identified risks such as issues with common OEM partners, product malfunctions, low customer adoption, loss of reputation, advancing competitor technology, and high defect rates. They analyzed the risks qualitatively using a probability/impact matrix and quantitatively with an example tornado diagram. Their risk response plan was to mitigate risks through actions like signing contracts with partners, improved testing, enhancing usability, timely updates, research & development, and staff training.
The document discusses applying 6 Sigma methodology to software development processes. It outlines the software development life cycle and quality models like CMM, ITIL and Method-1. It proposes using 6 Sigma to select new work, ITIL for production support, and CMM/Method-1 for the development life cycle. A case study is presented to identify, measure, reduce and audit the costs of software defects by fixing them earlier in the development process using DMAIC. Data would be collected from project reviews and testing to analyze defect origination and costs. The goal is to decrease development and support costs by finding and fixing defects earlier.
Emerging Technologies - The Future Of Finance (CIMA Feb 2019)Michael Sadler
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4. What is Analytics? American companies spend $160 billion on software annually and another $100 billion on maintenance. It’s no secret that companies overspend by nearly 30% on license agreements and maintenance. Scott RosenbergCEO – Miro Consulting 8 Secrets to Software Licensing Management Savings What is Analytics Advantage? A program to reduce costs by eliminating guesswork and waste in software licensing. A fact-based analysis that aligns Microsoft licensing with business, technology and fiscal goals What are Microsoft Licensing “Options”? To us, a licensing “option” revolves around 4 key questions: What technologies are important to you? When will you deploy those technologies? How closely does your upgrade trajectory synchronize with Microsoft’s product release cycles? Is your technology strategy supported by your financial and risk-management objectives? 4
10. Analysis – Scenario Methodology We apply a consistent methodology across all scenarios, analyzing three major factors: Gross Cost Impact (GCI). GCI shows the hard-dollar costs over 3/6/9 years. Net Agreement Value takes other factors into account that will either lower or raise the GCI. These may include Software Assurance Benefits, additive technology costs, or technology displacement savings. Benefits and risks describes the benefits and risks that each scenario poses. 10
11. Analysis - Year-by-Year Cost Comparisons All assumptions documented True Apples-to-Apples cost comparisons Based on client usage of Microsoft technology 11
12. Analysis - Cash Flow Expectations Expected cash flow is a mission-critical consideration 12
13. Risk – What the numbers don’t tell you Risk Scoring Formula Risk = (Client rating x Softmart score) + Asset Management Modifier Captures essence of risk without over-complication (6 categories) Ensures fair scoring based on client input Open system with all variables displayed 14
Key Points: The Softmart approach is 3-pronged: Discover, Optimize, Control Discover – Analytics Engagement helps client choose appropriate licensing investment approach Optimize – Softmart has services that help clients manage to the choice they have made Control – Softmart has services designed to help client know when changes need to be made to strategyNotes:We take a comprehensive approach to assisting our clients in managing their Microsoft Investments. We have a 3-pronged approach. Through our Analytics Engagement, our team will work with you to Discover the Licensing Investment Strategy that best matches your Microsoft software usage patterns. After the Analytics Engagement is complete, our team will assist you in Optimizing not only your chosen license strategy, but we also provide tools that will help you manage the daily workflow that supports your effort to achieve the highest value from your licensing investments. And finally, the Softmart team takes a serious approach tomonitoring the impact of your strategic choices and industry trends on your business. This Quality Assurance focus is vital in assisting you to realize the long term value of your technology investments.Let’s take a brief look at how this approach can benefit your organization.
Key Points: Cost reduction Fact-based (transparent math) analysis focused on the client, NOT Microsoft licensing options “Licensing Options” involves a consideration of: technology used, timing of deployments, synchronization with MS releases, client’s financial & risk concernsNotes:Our Analytics Advantage Program is afact-based analysis that aligns Microsoft licensing with your business, technology and fiscal goals. Our starting point is not a recitation of the various features & benefits of the available Microsoft Licensing programs. Instead, we focus all of our energy on understanding your particular environment, independent of Softmart’s or Microsoft’s interest in your organization’s investment in technology. In order to explore the appropriateness of any licensing option for you, our team must understand what technologies are important to you and when will you deploy those technologies. With that information we explore how closely your upgrade trajectories, or cycles, synchronize with Microsoft’s software release cycles. Finally, we take a deep-dive into your company’s financial & risk-management objectives. Armed with this understanding of your company, we are then ready to sit down with you to brainstorm the licensing scenarios that will make the most sense to your company.Let’s take a brief look the outcomes of this type of licensing analysis.
Key Points: Each option measured on basis of cost AND risk Allows you to compare options in a clear, objective method Provides a plan for managing cost & risk once the choice is madeNotes:The end-game, goal of Analytics is to produce a mathematically sound visualization of your licensing options. We will measure each licensing option based on it’s relative cost AND on it’s level of inherent compliance risk & administrative burden. Knowing the bottom-line cost AND cash flow patterns associated with each option allows you to plan effectively. In addition, the identification of risk factors empowers you to manage toward maximizing the value of and mitigating the risk of your chosen licensing investment strategy. Regardless of the choice you make, Softmart will provide you with tools to help manage your investment.
Key Points: Organized, fact-based approach Minimal time investment required by client We play either a “behind-the-scenes” or an up-front role in negotiationsNotes:The Analytics process unfolds in 4 easy steps. This entire process typically requires less than 5 hours of time commitment on your part. In the first step, we utilize your license history and other internal documentation to establish an inventory of your current Microsoft investment. In step 2, we review these technologies with you in order to understand the strategic importance they play and the frequency with which you upgrade those technologies. During this phase we establish your upgrade trajectories and the level to which you synchronize with Microsoft product release cycles. In step 3, we take what we know about your deployment patterns and your financial goals & constraints and begin to lay out and analyze various investment scenarios. Once you have narrowed down the top options under consideration, we will support you in your negotiations with Microsoft—playing either a visible or “behind-the-scenes” role.
Key Points: Inventory of current and planned software technology Accurate cost projections Entitlement migration support Technology Importance RatingNotes:We begin the Analytics process by creating an inventory of your current licensing investments. This inventory not only provides us with a picture of your current technologies, but it also documents any planned technology adoptions. In addition to providing cost projections, understanding both existing and planned deployments allows us to help you plan for the impact that entitlement changes will have on your future strategy. We will also estimate the current market value of your software investments and analyze the importance that each technology plays in your environment. During this process we work with you to make sure that we have an accurate picture of what you own and use. This inventory provides the basis from which we will be able to launch the licensing analysis.
Key Points: Client’s Adoption patterns analyzed on each MS technology Financial roadmap options are determined All scenarios to be analyzed are based on client’s deployment plansNotes:At its core, the Analytics method seeks to understand the upgrade trajectory of each Microsoft technology in your environment. In addition, we seek to ascertain the level of synchronization between your upgrade cycles and the MS product release cycles. Once these patterns have been identified, we lay out the financial roadmap necessary to meet your software licensing investment priorities. It is at this point that we then begin to run our “what-if” scenarios in which we analyze various models for investment management over time. For example, are you going to manage cost by annualizing across multiple years and cycles? Or, are you going to invest solely at the time of deployment? Or, are you going to utilize a strategy that combines these two approaches to cash flow management?
Key Points: We have the ability to measure past agreement performance We assess the value gap between SA investment and licenses deployed This analysis can also be conducted as a forecastNotes:In some cases, our clients request an analysis of their Past Agreement Performance. In this type of analysis, we are analyzing the delta between the investment in Software Assurance and the value attained by actual deployment of software covered under maintenance. This analysis yields a value gap (or surplus) that indicates the effectiveness of a chosen license investment strategy on individual technologies or on the entire Microsoft inventory. This analysis can also be projected into the future in order to determine the point at which your investments in Software Assurance will begin to yield a value surplus.
Key Points: Analytics is written in the language of the CFO. We analyze both the Gross Cost-Impact and the Net Agreement Value of each option We do not bake in soft dollar costs into our comparisonsNotes:The methods we use to analyze your software assets and the language we use to express the results are equally important. It has always been our goal to conduct our analysis in a way that will withstand the scrutiny of the CFO. Therefore, our starting point is always a comparison of the options using the bottom-line, Gross Cost-Impact (GCI) approach. When speaking the language of the CFO, we do not bake in any soft dollar cost avoidance or software assurance valuation. We do believe, however, that a consideration of Net Agreement Value is a vital part of any prudent decision process. So, we will calculate the value of SA, additive technology costs and technology displacement savings, to name a few. These net values should be considered as part of the equation. It is our belief, however, that a client’s upgrade trajectories and level of synchronization with Microsoft release cycles must be the primary consideration when assessing the value of a licensing strategy. Net value considerations are important, but usually comprise a relatively small percentage value of the total cost of the Microsoft investment. We just want to make sure that we are clear which language we are speaking (GCI or Net Value) when discussing the benefits and risks of a licensing option.
Key Points: All assumptions documented Gross Cost Impact v. Net Value considerations Short & Long term analysis of costsNotes:Once we have determined your usage patterns, we begin to analyze various licensing scenarios. The scenarios analyzed are determined by the technology and business goals that you have identified during the consultation. We document all assumptions that are made during the analysis. For example, if a particular scenario assumes the deployment of the latest version of Office in 2011, then we will document that fact during the process. This then becomes the basis from which to manage the deployment schedule in order to retain the business case of the choice made. We are also very careful not to confuse bottom line, gross cost impact with a discussion of net value. Initially, we show the direct cost outlays and savings on each option---without baking in soft dollar cost avoidance or software assurance benefit valuation. As you begin to narrow down your choices, we will then take these net value factors into account as you attempt to gain a true assessment of the value of one option over another. We project these cost comparisons out over 6-9 years in order to take into account the need to manage both short and long term cash flow ojectives.
Key Points: Cash flow is mission-critical Planned investments must be mapped to a coherent deployment plan Illustration of both Short & Long term cost impactsNotes:Expressing the cash flow patterns of each licensing option is a valuable decision support tool. This cash flow graph clearly illustrates the difference between cash management utilizing software maintenance v. cash management based on acquisition of perpetual licenses without maintenance. The graph also allows us to see how the combination of these strategies will affect the cash flow of your organization during upcoming planned deployments and migrations. We believe that this type of analysis plays a fundamental role in strategic planning. This analysis also will provide you visibility into the per-desktop cost implications of various strategies.
Key Points: Simple & Informative Risk Assessment Model Consideration of top 6 risk factors covering compliance, budget/logistics and technology Softmart risk assessment is weighted by internal client conditionsNotes:An analysis of your Microsoft licensing options would not be complete without a consideration of risk. We have kept our risk assessment model simple yet informative. Drawing on 50+ years of experience, the Analytics Team has identified the top six risk factors across three categories: Compliance, Budget & Logistics, and Technology & Benefits. We begin by assessing each option and rating it as high, medium or low risk on these key factors. We then weight the score by the importance that you place on that risk factor and by the quality & strength of your software asset management procedures. This method gives us a simple and clear way to assess the relative risk of each option. It also provides us with the basis from which to help you plan to strategically mitigate the various risks associated with the licensing option you choose.
Key Points: Scenario for each option under serious consideration Details costs, net value off-sets, risks and benefits Illustrates the connection between client’s investment plans with their deployment plansNotes:We will create a scorecard for each of the top options under consideration. This scorecard details out the costs for the next two 3-yr cycles. It also details out any net value calculations that might impact the client’s decision. We do also indicate the risk rating and include a narrative discussion of both the benefits and risks of the option. Most importantly, however, we detail the various technologies that will be deployed in each of the next 3 years of the proposed agreement. In fact, we are tying the licensing investment strategy directly to the client’s planned deployment strategy. This connection is designed to help our clients’ realize that solid planning and execution will directly impact the business case and ultimate value of the licensing option they choose.