IT Sourcing Practice
Center of Excellence
Stretch your budget and maximize the value you receive from your IT suppliers.
Specialized IT sourcing experts
Best-in-class analytics
Proprietary IT sourcing frameworks
Proven negotiation strategies
Insights from technology and market trends
Robust benchmarks and category knowledge
Flexible support models
Visibility and insights into IT spend
Rapid identification of savings opportunities
Deep intelligence on market and suppliers
Tailored sourcing strategies
Hands-on engagement with suppliers
Fact-based supplier selection approach
Managed services around renewals
Ongoing cost management
Programmatic sourcing strategies
Concrete cost reduction
Clearly defined pricing structures and SLAs
Quick-win savings
20+
Technology Consultants
4
4x+ Average
ROI
280
IT Projects
Completed
22
% Average
Savings
Challenges We Solve
Not sure how to tackle your IT strategic roadmap goals without blowing the budget? We bring best-practice procurement disciplines to
tackle the full range of IT challenges our clients face.
Situation
- Costly or cumbersome legacy environments
- Slow to provide users with new technologies
- Fragmented systems, patchwork data integrity
Insight Sourcing Group Response
- Frame priorities to drive supply base needs
- Optimize insource v. outsource decisions
- Realign supplier roles via competitive selection
- Reduce IT costs to best-in-market levels
Situation
- Inflexible on-premise data centers
- Monolithic and heavily customized applications
- Uncertainty on direction and how to make cost-effective progress
Insight Sourcing Group Response
- Structure and organize migration options for hybrid cloud direction on suppliers
- Navigate selection of best-fit providers at market leading costs
- Negotiate flexible, multi-year cloud agreements
Situation
- Overlapping point solutions
- Underutilized applications
- Unmanaged annual cost increases and growing tail spend
Insight Sourcing Group Response
- Identify overlapping functionality
- Analyze utilization and right-size licensing
- Develop renewal strategic roadmap, in conjunction with IT
Situation
- Constrained budgets largely spent on legacy systems & annual maintenance costs
- Fragmented, transactional approach to refreshing existing infrastructure
Insight Sourcing Group Response
- Establish plan to leverage full refresh volumes
- Stretch budgets on refresh and upgrades
- Evaluate support and right-size for needs
IT Sourcing Category Analytics
Within the IT space, post-sourcing monitoring is central to ensuring your company is charged the correct rates, credited for missed SLAs, compensated with appropriate rebates where applicable, and appropriately informed of any price increases or changes.
Insight Analytics, our proprietary category analytics managed service, is designed to combat savings leakage and drive post-sourcing compliance and optimization. ISG’s IT COE has worked with Insight Analytics to develop the most critical monitoring tools to ensure clients fully capture expected contractual savings and identify incremental savings opportunities over time.
IT Sourcing Category Expertise
Our team has experience strategically addressing over sixty IT categories and subcategories across External Labor, Hardware, Infrastructure Services, Software, Telecom, and Outside services.
External Labor
IT Hardware
Software
Outside Services
IT Infrastructure Services
Telecom
Talk to Our IT Sourcing Experts.
Our team can put you on a path to seeing a 4x – 10x first-year ROI with savings averaging between 8-20% per IT category.