Major European Company Achieves a ROI of More than $10 million With The Help of iQuate’s Consulting Expertise and Agentless IT Discovery and Inventory Software.
Today iQuate, the automated IT discovery, inventory and measurement specialists for large enterprises, announced the success of an IT asset management project in Europe.
Beginning in April 2012, iQuate was engaged to complete an Oracle Deployment Baseline and ULA Optimization project at a FTSE 100 company which was approaching the end of its Oracle ULA contract. The IT environment comprised approximately 1500 servers in a number of datacenters and several thousand desktops. The server-side environment was multi-vendor, virtualized, and utilizing clustered and partitioned computing, all of which have particular consequences for software licensing – especially Oracle.
The goals of this project were to avoid unnecessary license fees, reconfigure hardware to support high availability, and deploy options to the level of the capped license, all while maximizing the value of their Oracle ULA and maintaining compliance. The license impact in the datacenter was the company’s main concern.
The visibility provided by iQuate’s software enabled the organization to reconfigure both hardware and software allocations to optimize the Oracle license estate by over £8 million in just five months.
SAM in the datacenter delivering large cost savings
According to Gartner, IT budgets are dominated by spending on server-based software: 71% on servers with only 29% for desktop. For organizations using a mainframe, the percentage of expenditure devoted to the datacenter is even higher: 79%.
“Most new iQuate customers already have software asset management (SAM) tools in place, but these primarily address desktops. While we might be seeing a resurging interest in desktop SAM, with Windows XP recently reaching end of support, it is more often the gap in the datacenter where the real return on investment for SAM is,” comments Pat Durkin, iQuate EVP International. “Once you have a handle on virtualized, clustered and other complex datacenter environments, you can concentrate your optimization efforts on the high value, high risk vendors like IBM and Oracle.”
“This project is one of many that have delivered not only cost savings to our customers, but a proactive, transparent approach to IT planning. Both CIOs and CFOs start to pay attention when you’re talking about 70% -80% of the software budget,” concludes Durkin.
