The Who
- One of the UK's largest investment platforms for advisors and other financial institutions
- Responsible for £89.3 billion of investments
- 2,000 users
The Challenge
- Early adoption of VMware technology challenged understanding of the company's license position
- The customer wanted to better understand their licensing arrangements and commercials
- Desire to explore where savings could be made
The Solution
- A specialist health check tool called Sonar was brought in to identify potential savings
- 2-day interpretation of the findings compiled into comprehensive report
- After reviewing the initial results, a further 8 days of consultancy to rationalise their licensing
The Benefits
- Management of environment became far easier
- Massive 25% reduction in licensing costs
- Overcame the perception that tools like this would cost more and take more time
- Savings made were repurposed for consultancy to improve environment
Why Servium?
- Customer was impressed by Servium's proposal
- Highly innovative approach
