Why It Matters
Why Technology Costs Need Attention
Technology spending grows quietly across cloud, software and hardware. Without visibility and ownership, much of it delivers less value than it should.
Benefits
What Your Business Can Achieve
Intended benefits. Actual results depend on your environment and starting point.
Use Cases
Explore Use Cases
The specific scenarios this outcome covers. Start with the one closest to your situation.
More Related Use Cases
Solutions
Solutions That Support This Outcome
Each solution covers a different source of technology cost, from cloud to licences and contracts.
Our Approach
How Signisys Can Help
A cost approach that keeps performance, security and service levels in view.
Assess
Build a baseline of cloud, software, hardware and contract costs, and who owns them.
Design
Agree priorities, cost ownership, tagging and reporting, and the savings worth pursuing first.
Implement
Right-size resources, retire unused licences and assets, and put reporting in place.
Optimize
Review costs regularly and keep improving as usage and the business change.
Services
Services That Deliver It
The Signisys services behind the approach.
Technology
Technology That Supports Your Business Goals
Technology is chosen to fit your environment. Specific platforms and partner status are confirmed for each engagement.
Measuring Progress
Measuring Progress and Business Impact
Example measures, not results achieved by Signisys. Agree a baseline, and keep targets separate from measured results.
Cloud Spend Variance
The difference between planned and actual cloud spending.
Resource Utilization
How much provisioned cloud capacity is actually used.
License Utilization
The share of paid software licences in active use.
Allocated Spend
The share of technology spending traced to a team, product or owner.
Idle Resources
Resources running with little or no use, and how quickly they are removed.
Renewal Visibility
The share of contracts and licences with known renewal dates and owners.
Our Approach
How We Deliver Results
How Signisys works, from the first assessment to handover and beyond.
FAQs
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about reducing IT costs and getting more value from technology.
What does reducing IT costs involve?
Making technology costs visible, removing waste such as idle resources and unused licences, assigning ownership and reviewing costs regularly.
Will reducing costs affect performance or security?
It should not, when changes are based on actual usage and each system’s performance, availability and security requirements.
Which solutions help achieve this outcome?
Cloud cost optimization and FinOps, IT asset, license and vendor management, and technology cost governance, each covering a different source of cost.
What information is needed to start?
Access to cloud billing data, software and hardware records, key contracts and the people who own budgets.
How do we measure the business impact?
Agree a baseline for a few measures, such as spend variance, utilization and allocated spend, and track them over time.
Ready to Reduce IT Costs?
Discuss your priorities with Signisys and explore the technology approach that fits your business requirements.