Computacenter

ACCREDITATIONS

Computacenter holds software accreditations with all its vendors, among them:

  • Citrix Platinum Solutions Adviser
  • IBM Software Premier Business Partner
  • Microsoft Gold Certified Partner, one of the largest LARs in the UK
  • McAfee Elite Partner, 2006 EMEA Partner of the Year
  • Novell Platinum Partner
  • Symantec Platinum Partner
  • VMware Premier Enterprise Partner – the first and only in the UK

We are the only Large Account Reseller able to provide end-to-end solutions for all of your IT needs from hardware and software to IT services.

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SOFTWARE MODULES

Click on each module to learn how Computacenter can help you to save money

N.B.: With any of our service offerings, Consultancy can involve ELP Creation. In addition, both Consultancy and ELP Optimisation can involve Benchmarking.

We also offer Renewals Management and, especially for our Microsoft customers, our Microsoft Dedicated Services offerings.

Choose one or more of Computacenter’s fixed-term or managed service offerings, depending on your organisation’s needs:

  • Our experts help you optimise your licence agreements
  • Our comprehensive services reduce your operational burden
  • We continually optimise your purchasing and deployment
  • We help you to monitor your ongoing entitlement to the latest product version through our Effective Licence Position (ELP) service

Licence Consultancy

We determine the best-fit, best value licence option for your specific requirements. Benefits include:

  • A best fit, best value licence option for your requirements
  • Reduced net cost
  • A better understanding of licensing schemes and their obligations

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Benchmarking and Vendor Negotiation

We check your vendor deals and help you in your negotiations to ensure you get best value from your software estate. Benefits include:

  • Transparent cost/benefit and ROI across your portfolio
  • More opportunities for training, upgrades and support -- at no extra cost
  • Access to exclusive tools available only to Computacenter clients

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Licence Sourcing and Administration

We help you source licences from your vendor and ensure that an agreement matching your business objectives is in place. Benefits include:

  • Vendor contracts set up according to criteria that you set
  • A simplified and speedy software acquisition process based on our best practice
  • Reduced operational burden and lowered risk of error

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Managed Licence Fulfilment

Our experts provide ongoing licence analysis, recommendations, benchmarking, sourcing and administration. Benefits include:

  • Reduced workload and operational burden
  • Reduced risk of non-compliance
  • Benefits of ITIL-based best practice without the operational cost

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ELP Creation and Optimisation

We establish your Effective Licence Position (ELP) by recording and then consolidating your licences. We renegotiate and optimise your agreements and, if required, your procurement. Benefits include:

  • Clear position backed up by documented evidence in your ELP
  • Identified benefits and exploited options
  • Consolidated spend with greater volume purchase discount

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Entitlements Tracking

We store and track your software entitlements, enabling you to track your own position in future. Benefits include:

  • Ability to track software spend by product, vendor, organisational unit
  • Proper alignment of upgrades and support to base licences
  • Maximised purchasing scale opportunities

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Portfolio Rationalisation

We consolidate your spend on software to standardise your estate and allow you to budget elsewhere in the organisation. Benefits include:

  • Purchasing through optimised agreements
  • Easier software asset management administration
  • Maximised purchasing scale opportunities

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Managed Licence Procurement

By looking at your software agreements and roadmaps, we evaluate changes in your vendor requirements and validate additional requests against your existing portfolio. Benefits include:

  • Implementation of ITIL best practice for quicker, more efficient procurement
  • Controlled and documented authorisation, logs, records and processes
  • Prevention of unauthorised or unapproved software purchases

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Policies and Procedures Review

We assess your policies and procedures for buying, installing and using software, aligning them with Computacenter's ITIL-based best practice. Benefits include:

  • Control request and purchasing methods
  • Control deployment through standard builds, electronic distribution, desktop lockdown
  • Proactively measure compliance and assess legal threat through audit trails and proof of compliance

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Software Audit

We measure the usage of your installed software using discovery tools and data conversion templates. Benefits include:

  • Reduced risk of non-compliance, legal threat by identifying and addressing poor licensing practice
  • Ability to calculate value of software assets for accounting balance sheet
  • Identification of extent of software in use and opportunities for software portfolio rationalisation

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Health-check

We match your ELP against your installed software to check that you are not over- or under- licensed. This will result in your True Licence Position (TLP). Benefits include:

  • Eliminate waste and redundancy or redeploy existing licences where they are needed
  • Qualify for better vendor pricing and reduce costs on IT support
  • Available reconciliation data to enable better decision-making for future purchases

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Software Asset Management

We reconcile your purchases and deployments throughout the lifecycle to ensure smart procurement so that you have only the licences you need. Benefits include:

  • Reduced concerns about unsupported programs, viruses and security issues
  • Calculated value of software assets for accounting balance sheet
  • Reduced procurement, support, upgrade maintenance costs

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