Data Center Consolidation & Relocation
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Service Description
Our Data Center Consolidation & Relocation service is designed to mitigate costs incurred with major data center changes. Whether your company is consolidating data centers after a merger/acquisition or you choose to move your data center to a new location, ISAM has several analyses and applications to help minimize software costs. ISAM provides a comprehensive methodology with industry-leading tools to inventory products, analyze usage and lead in vendor negotiations to meet critical schedules for software moves.
Key Benefits
- ISAM’s Data Center Consolidation & Relocation service helps you save mainframe and distributed software costs.
- Our service also helps you obtain pricing and contract terms and conditions favorable to your short and long-term operational goals.
- Our service helps you understand and implement SAM best practices.
- Our Software Vendor Negotiation service helps raise your company to “best in class” status among data centers of similar size for software pricing.
Collecting Your Data for Analysis
We begin by helping you collect software contracts and pricing data and load it into our Software Intelligence Database. Specific company information is kept in the strictest confidence. ISAM’s Software Intelligence Database has software pricing data from data centers of various sizes (total MIPS) and representing all industries. Our database is the largest and most comprehensive in the software asset management industry and we have developed multiple applications to help the client reduce expenses and manage software assets.
Our Process
- ISAM provides a software data collection package with easy instructions.
- We catalog your software inventory and compare it to current and intended future usage.
- We review both unit software cost and total software cost on each contract.
- We review product lists for functional redundancy and replacement alternatives.
- ISAM identifies any legal or financial risks of moving or replacing software products.
- ISAM negotiates directly with IBM and the ISVs to improve terms and drive savings.
Service Deliverables
- ISAM prepares a benchmark of your software contracts with contracts of similar sized data centers for analysis and discussion.
- We develop multiple hardware and software configuration scenarios based on your consolidation or relocation plans and present them for review and discussion.
- ISAM meets directly with the ISVs to discuss pricing (based on industry data), terms and conditions (based on industry best practices).
- ISAM stays at the center of negotiation until the contracts are signed.
- Our report also offers suggestions for SAM best practices and long-term savings strategies.
Project Timeline
Once the data is received, it generally takes about six weeks (less if requested), to complete our Data Center Consolidation & Relocation service.
Our Experts
The ISAM team is made up of professionals with success in software asset management. Our team members have financial expertise, software pricing expertise, database expertise, data center management expertise and they all provide excellent customer service.
Additional Information
Our clients see the greatest savings when their SAM teams openly share information about other planned changes to their environment. When hardware migrations or upgrades are planned immediately after a consolidation or relocation, ISAM is often able to add this detail to its configuration scenarios to generate even further savings. Check out the Data Center Consolidation case study on our Web site to see a specific example on how we helped a client produce additional savings based on the implementation of ongoing software asset management best practices after the completion of the data center consolidation.