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Our Mission
Barely a day passes without another apocalyptic news report detailing how we are rushing headlong into the worst financial crisis since the great depression.
The reasons behind the current economic downturn are complex, and are certainly not attributable to the management of IT systems. However, the macro-economic nature of the problems certainly does not mean IT has no part to play in this drama. Specifically, as companies look to drive down costs in response to dwindling demand and availability of capital, the employees who are most proactive in cost-saving initiatives are those most likely to survive the inevitable rounds of staff cuts.
There is enormous scope for elimination of waste within IT, but until now such efforts have taken a back-seat to more aspirational projects. Where IT cost-control has been a focus for an organization, well-intentioned IT staff have taken measures they consider adequate to mitigate future spend, but for reasons unique to the world of software licensing, costs continue to rise beyond the effective range of traditional cost control methodologies. Absent an awareness of modern, focused approaches to cost control, IT can be forgiven for suggesting this is ‘as good as it gets’.
Scalable provides a genuinely new avenue to explore that can dramatically drive down the software and management costs of the user community. The key here is that Scalable represents a new approach, so no one can suggest that prior efforts were poorly executed; what is possible with Scalable’s products has simply not been possible before. With individuals’ livelihoods now at stake, elimination of wasteful spending has to be considered the top priority. Can you afford not to be seen to be doing everything in your power to stop the waste?
Asset Lifecycle Management
Asset Lifecycle Management is an emerging discipline, focused squarely on driving costs out of IT, and is beginning to attract the attention of major analysts. Asset Lifecycle Management takes the core strengths of traditional asset and configuration management disciplines and infuses then with a dynamic and proactive cost dimension. Companies embracing Asset Lifecycle Management can guarantee:
| • | Only software that is needed, and will be productively used, is purchased, licensed and maintained |
| • | The progressive switch to virtual technologies does not expose the organization to increased license cost risks |
| • | Deployment, patch management and provisioning costs are reduced to a minimum |
| • | Unused software is proactively identified and recycled to where it’s needed (sometimes known as license harvesting) |
| • | No unnecessary hardware upgrades occur |
| • | Hardware and software, retirement and decommissioning occurs without business risk or asset leakage |
| • | Printer to employee ratios are optimized to drive down maintenance and consumable costs |
The combination of these corporate benefits can dramatically drive costs out of an IT budget. Scalable’s customers routinely report savings measure in millions of dollars
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