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Software Advisory Services from WWT helps procurement and IT personnel develop and execute a software strategy for traditional hardware or legacy software OEMs.

Software Advisory Services

Software Advisory Services

Benefits and value

Our Software Advisors help you make informed decisions by creating a model for enterprise agreement (EA) evaluation that considers your unique business goals and strategy, current challenges, planned technology initiatives and financial implications.

Benefits and value

Confidently enter software agreements rightsized for your business needs

Benefits and value

Secure the most appropriate, pricing-protected contract structure for the products most critical to your organization

Benefits and value

Increase purchasing power by pooling software needs across departments

Benefits and value

Customize the scope of Adoption Services to accelerate software utilization

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Benefits and value

Reduce OEM overlap in spend from bundled software purchases

How we help

Neutral guidance from a trusted advisor

Our Software Advisory Services exemplify our commitment to functioning as a trusted advisor. We know our value relies on our ability to provide vendor-neutral support in enabling insights and improving decision-making. As such, we strive to combine our OEM expertise with a commitment to supporting you as an independent third party in all engagements.

Neutral guidance from a trusted advisor

Business use case development

Our Software Advisors can help develop EA use cases that support your IT and business strategies. Factors that influence business case development include your:

  • Current technology commitments
  • Historical approach to asset procurement
  • Existing technology initiatives and projects likely to impact consumption

We’ll build a strong business case, assess your current strategy, align your teams behind a technology roadmap, and analyze all related financial considerations.

Business use case development

Plan for the future

Our Software Advisors also take into account your future plans to better understand predictable and incremental cost factors. For example, if you’re planning to deploy 2,000 licenses over the next two years, but only want to deploy 1,000 in year one, it wouldn’t benefit you to start your EA with 2,000 licenses.

Plan for the future

Our people

Annie Heger

WWT

Director - Software Advisory Services

Jotham Darrin

WWT

Sr. Software Advisor - Cisco - West Region

Rob Presnell

WWT

Senior Practice Manager - Software Advisory Services

Brad Uhlenhoff

WWT

Senior Software Advisor - Public Sector

Eric Fischer

WWT

Sr. Software Advisor - Cisco, Central Region

Heather Miller

WWT

Sr. Software Advisor - Cisco, U.S. West

Henry Durban-Haskins

WWT

Snr Software Advisor - Cisco - EMEA

Dan Neveu

WWT

Sr. Software Advisor - VMware

Ready to rightsize your software engagements? Connect with a Software Advisor

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