Our range of services reduces cost and risk in licensing for public sector establishments and encompasses the following:
Uncover cost optimisation opportunities in your software estate, and avoid unbudgeted IT spend on license non-compliance
The UK Government’s policy paper outlining their ambition for, ‘ … transforming for a digital future …’ highlights the mission achieved so far and phases still to be delivered.
With technology change comes the opportunity to deliver better and more efficient services – however, technology change is one area that can also unwittingly create license non-compliance, potentially negating financial savings by creating fines and unbudgeted software procurement.
Achieving digital transformation goals without the risk of license non-compliance or unexpected costs is possible. By effectively managing software licenses and optimising costs, your organisation can ensure compliance and realise significant financial savings.
As experts in Tier 1 enterprise software vendors including Oracle, IBM and Microsoft, we can help you with the full lifecycle of software license optimisation. We reduce cost and risk in software licensing, manage ongoing compliance, deliver cloud migration readiness assessments, optimise cloud costs and deliver end-to-end FinOps.
We can also support you in the event of a vendor audit including Java, and offer advice and guidance around the recent changes in VMware and Broadcom.
Version 1 public sector framework inclusion
Our innovative solutions consistently reduce operating costs and support the Government’s digital and cloud-first strategies, ensuring the availability and reliability of key enterprise systems.
For more information on our range of services included in public sector frameworks, visit this page.
Case study: Public sector cloud cost optimisation
We reviewed our public sector client’s Azure subscriptions to assess the opportunity to take advantage of Azure Hybrid Benefit and reduce Azure consumption costs.
As a result of these optimisation steps, the public sector client made comparable net savings of approximately 20% per annum on their Azure consumption through non-disruptive actions.
Software license and cloud cost optimisation and ongoing SAM managed services for the public sector
Oracle, IBM and Microsoft license Optimisation
Our license optimisation experts can provide the full lifecycle of software license consultancy services. We ensure your license estate either on-premises or in the cloud, is fully optimised and under control with regards to cost, license compliance and complexity.
Oracle, IBM and Microsoft vendor audit defence
Our audit defence experts can independently check and validate the audit results in the event of discovered noncompliance during an audit. They also support any license negotiation and procurement activity as necessary.
On-premises to cloud readiness
Our license experts can help you understand your current license position to assess its ‘cloud readiness’ and support any rightsizing requirements. Our experts can help you side-step any potential non-compliance and benefit from cost optimisation opportunities.
Cloud cost optimisation
Our cloud experts can provide ongoing cloud cost consumption and billing optimisation for OCI, Azure and AWS platforms to continually optimise your cloud estate costs.
FinOps
FinOps is a growing professional discipline within large enterprises that aims to control ongoing cloud spend by working with a broad range of stakeholders across the business. Our FinOps experts can support your in-house FinOps practices or deliver the full end-to-end service as an outsourcing agreement.
SAM essentials
This ‘light touch’ advisory service is delivered on a retained basis and can be consumed at your discretion and adopted as part of post-project support or cover for general license advice and guidance.
SAM managed service
For single or multiple software titles, this SAM Managed Service delivers optimal license management and optimisation ensuring the best possible license posture is maintained and risk is mitigated on an ongoing basis.
Software fulfilment
Our dedicated software fulfilment team can help you optimise and streamline your procurement of licenses, hardware and cloud subscriptions ensuring that purchases are made at the right time, for the lowest price, and with the right contractual terms.
Case study: Public sector software audit defence
By adopting our tried and tested software audit approach, our client avoided a multi-million euro financial exposure through legitimate remediation, resulting in a massive ROI.
The total cost of the consultancy provided by Version 1 equated to 0.23% of the total cost avoided by the client.