CLOUD OPTIMISATION
A decade ago, companies either deployed their services to an online server connected to the internet or as a standalone piece of software to be installed on an endpoint system or internal server.
With the rise of cloud computing, companies gain new processes and tools to integrate infrastructure with cloud-based applications and create software more flexibly and efficiently. By adopting cloud, companies can remove the silos around development, deployment, and operations. Where there was once an application and a server, there is now a solution.
The cloud has changed the development process in three major ways: how we buy things, how we build things, and our tools and techniques. Rather than have huge capital outlays, cloud computing allows infrastructure to be paid as operational expenditures, giving businesses greater flexibility. By eliminating the need to order, configure, and manage physical servers and data centres, the cloud gives companies the ability to scale infrastructure very quickly and potentially reduces costs.
Leading agricultural company cuts overall cost by 32% with Hybrid Cloud Strategy
The Cloud Optimisation Team did a user profiling exercise to establish true requirements across the user base, and made recommendations to step down to lower plans, and remove unnecessary licenses. Furthermore it was established that the on-premise software was nearing end of support and established that the renewal of the contract as is would be an unnecessary expense. We established that the client did not have a short term plan to transition to the cloud but established that they could still utilise dual use rights and license their environment with the more cost effective and flexible cloud subscriptions, but remain on their on-premise solution for the short to medium term.
An overall cost saving of 32% was achieved and the clients risk of over expenditure and unnecessary investment in legacy technology was avoided.
LARGE PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT COMPANY REDUCES SOFTWARE COSTS BY R3.35mil
Rather then buying new office and exchange licenses for all 250 employee’s, which would have cost the company in excess of R 3 500 000,00 we supplied them with an Exchange Online Subscription
And leveraged the Hybrid Use Rights. Allowing the company to provision the mailboxes in Office365 in minutes, and add the users to the company’s on-premise domain, saving the company R3 350 000,00 in software costs.
The ease of access to technology that Cloud Services affords businesses brings with it the need to avoid the pitfalls of over-spending in the cloud
DRIVE COST SAVINGS
ENSURE ADOPTION
FLEXIBLE APPROACH
FACTUAL ASSESSMENT
We analyse software for end of support