CoCo Cost Optimisation Experience

Example Activities:

Hardware Maintenance Consolidation

Hardware & Software Renegotiations

VDI and Hyper-converged infrastructure

Multi-Vendors Support Implementation

Example Vendors/ applications:

IBM Software

IBM Hardware

Oracle HW 

Oracle Pool of Funds/ ULA

Dell EMC

SAP SW

HPE

Veritas

RedHat

VMWare 

Symantec

Microsoft

Example Activities:

Global Network Convergence & Resilience

Video Conferencing (Zoom, Webex)

Mobile Contracts

Example Vendors/ applications:

BT

Orange

Verizon

Cisco

NTT / Dimension Data

Vodafone

Hutchinson 

China Telecom

Telmex

Zajil

Bell 

Riverbed

Example Activities:

Break-fix, L1 & L2 End User Support

VDI & Thin Client Devices

Laptop / Desktop Purchases

Branch Support

Printing Solutions

ATM Maintenance & Support

Example Vendors:

Lenovo

Dell

Microsoft

HP Inc

Computacenter

Aternity

Fujitsu

JOS

Diebold

Nixdorf

NCR

Example Activities:

Data Centre facilities and Co-Locations

Example Vendors:

Equinix

NTT

IBM

FixNetix

CenturyLink

Example Activities:

Cloud Consumption

Cloud Foundational Layer

Cloud Migration business cases

Various SaaS &   IaaS solutions

Commercial Cloud Management

Example Vendors:

Google 

Amazon Web Services

Microsoft Azure

Oracle

Rackspace

CloudHealth

Example Activities:

Security Operations Centre

DDOS Protection

Cyber Security Software

Example Vendors:

McAfee

Symantec

Akamai

Verisign

CrowdStrike

Forescout

Splunk

ECS

Illumio

Microsoft

Example Activities:

Review of all application software contracts (perpetual, term or subscription based) across all IT business lines

Re-negotiation of ELA contacts

Digital Software contracts

Tail Consolidation & Reseller agreements

Example Vendors

SAS

Pivotal

AppDynamics

Tableau

Qlik

IBM

Microsoft

Oracle

Insight

Computacenter

Software One

Example Activities:

Implementation of Preferred Supplier Lists

Rate Card renegotiations

Alignment to SFIA role types for all rate cards

Volume Rebate Schemes

Creation of a vendor portal to accelerate recruitment and on-boarding

Example Vendors:

Wipro

CapGemini

Infosys

Reed

Resource Solutions

Mansion House

CapCo

HCL

Example Activities:

Review Employee Health Scheme

Review Print and Mail services

Review Marketing Spend

M&A Due Diligence

Example Vendors:

Paragon Customer Communications

Adare Sec

Vitality Health

BUPA