A large part of Recarta do is to remove your burden to constantly price and technology check the plethora of software technologies available to you. We always ensure that we are able to offer you the benefits of our buying power with vendors to negotiate the best rates for you.

Comprehensive Training delivered to both our Licensing Consultants, and to our Internal Support Teams, ensures that we should always be in a position to provide you with the information that you require.

Licensing Procurement

Our expertise in managing software on behalf of our clients has resulted in us working to a procurement process that can be customised to address specific needs and requirements. Part of that process includes the examination of current licensing agreements and purchase history to determine if and where cost savings may be realised by either consolidation, re-evaluation of contracts or adjustments in maintenance commitments.

Driving down costs

Our procurement specialists understand the need to drive down costs, and we work strategically with our clients to ensure we source products in the best possible way and at the best possible price. We typically work with our customers to help:

• Ensure economies of scale by operating licensing agreements of all sizes
• Work with fixed, measurable pricing matrices for all contracts
• Help to demonstrate ROI on these contracts therefore reducing TCO
• Act as the interface between the vendors and client
• Creating contracts where boxed product has been purchased historically 

Our experience has helped develop a 3 point methodology system that our licensing consultants use across the different software applications to help our customers get the best possible deals:

1. Co-termination of agreements.
2. Leverage contract term and previous experience to reduce pricing and maintenance costs.
3. Identify product functionality crossover with other applications across vendor portfolio.

IBM Solutions

Recarta has the skill and accreditations to assist you with the license procurement for System and Storage Software such as the Operating systems AIX, i/OS, SVC, PowerVM, as well as the extensive list of IBM applications such as Tivoli, Lotus, Rational, DB2 and Websphere. We can ensure that you buy the correct amount of software and at a discounted price and assist the management of renewals to take the pain away!

Microsoft Solutions

Recarta we can help avoid unnecessary expenditure and also look at more efficient licensing terms to further reduce costs. In summary our contracts team can help you;

• Understand about the various Microsoft licensing agreements
• Ensure your Microsoft software estate is compliant at all times
• Re-engineer your licensing agreement so it is aligned with your business strategy
• Make the most of package, promotion and volume discounts

Recarta can help you purchase new licenses for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows Server, Exchange Server 2007, SQL Server, Office 2007.

Virtualisation

Recarta is VMWare Professional Partner, Veeam Gold Partner and Citrix Silver Partner. Since its beginning, virtualisation has been at the heart of Recarta’s culture and although many companies are now confident with the concept of virtualisation, the software vendors are constantly adding and developing new products to drive this to the next level. Recarta’s zealous experts can assist with your software procurement and renewals around VMware, Veeam and Citrix.