Ways in which an ICT Reseller can add value

Many people view ICT Resellers as simply a “pass through” mechanism by which they acquire software and hardware, but that view significantly undersells the many benefits an ICT Reseller can bring your organisation.

When purchasing hardware, your ICT Reseller can be involved in specifying what it is you actually need to purchase. Rather than you performing both the analysis of your needs and the potential products that meet those needs, your ICT Reseller can:

• Help you identify the sizing and functionality requirements needed now
• Fast-track the process of identifying available market solutions
• Steer you towards the products that they know are best-performing and best-supported, based on their experience with other clients
• Can acquire volume discounts for customers that can’t typically be accessed.

For software, the benefits can be even greater. The complexity of software licensing these days – with single application licensing, pick-and-mix licensing for applications within a suite and enterprise licensing under various models – means that simply understanding what vendor licensing is available is time-consuming.

When you then add an understanding of how to upgrade or downgrade products, cross-grade between products or roll singly licensed applications under an enterprise license – all the while remaining fully, demonstrably compliant – it’s a major IT headache.

Your ICT Reseller can:

• Steer you through the maze of what’s available
• Help you determine what you need now an in the coming planning period (quarterly, half yearly or yearly)
• Automate a discovery process to understand what you currently have installed, and your compliance against purchased license entitlements
• Build, and help maintain, a Software Asset Register including full data about numbers of licenses; whether they are OEM, volume, product family, package or individual purchase; and any license use conditions
• Support you in meeting any vendor licensing requirements such as Microsoft’s annual true-up process
• Provide best value on your purchasing.

Don’t go it alone when it comes to managing your hardware and software purchasing. Leverage the expertise of your ICT Reseller – after all, they’ve helped hundreds of customers just like you.