SAM
As technologies and licensing agreements become more complex, especially when you take Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) environments into account, and as vendor audits become more aggressive, figuring out a way to manage it all can be daunting. Managing the complexity of today’s software lifecycle requires procurement tracking, administration of licences and controlling cloud costs across multiple vendors.
Blackhill’s Software Asset Management (SAM) advisory service is vendor-independent, looking beyond the bill of materials to offer solutions that ensure the best outcome and price point based on industry averages. Whether your business needs assistance with licensing, general license management, or cloud optimisation, Blackhill ensures you get the most value out of what has already been purchased, and that you only make new purchases that will benefit your business.
Our extensive experience means that we understand the vendor roadmap, the mechanics of licensing, and the full history of licensing rules, and use that knowledge to help your business find new ways to optimise your estate. We go further than just analysing the existing estate, utilising best of breed SAM and cloud cost assessment tools, enabling you to better interpret your digital estate in the context of your business goals. This allows for the creation of a technology plan that can help you reach your objectives in the most cost effective and optimised way possible, ensuring cost efficiencies, compliance and risk mitigation.
More than 20 years of experience in the Microsoft advisory landscape enabled Blackhill to help a large multinational with 100 000 users achieve a US$ 10M saving in data centre modernisation costs.
Microsoft Contract Renewal Negotiation – The Microsoft contract renewal can be a complex and challenging process at times. A Swiss multinational engaged Blackhill to provide an expert, independent perspective on risks and opportunities. Using Microsoft product changes as a basis for negotiation, in light of the unfavorable impact it had on the organisation’s environment, Blackhill was able to reduce costs by more than US $ 4M.