Blue Saffron Cost Management™

Efficient, cost effective communications services are essential to every organisation. Unfortunately many businesses do not have the resources, time, or budget to undertake Bluesaffron audit and best practive advice on cost reduction and can offer analysis of the performance and costs of their networks and staff provide effective outsourcing options for IT and communications management, eliminating the need for purchasing and administering a call management system and costly hardware.

Item	Discussion	Blue Saffron Service
Reduce the cost of your “output fleet”	Reduce the cost of printers, scanners, fax machines and copiers is generally low-hanging fruit for ICT managers.	Blue Saffron IT Resource Management
Consider the use of open source software	Consider use of open source alternatives to the more established players
Virtualisation of server and desktop		Blue Saffron IT Resource Management
Optimise your help desk	Determine your optimal help desk state and consider partial outsource, focus on: Reduce the help desk annual cost per user and tickets per user simplifying the help desk and improve efficiency metrics	Blue Saffron Support
Consider application retirement	Important to weigh up the costs of maintenance and support of legacy systems against newer web based applications.
Asset management	Software Asset Management (SAM) can drive savings of 30% or more on software licensing and administration	Blue Saffron IT Resource Management Blue Saffron Service Monitoring
Reduce Network Costs	Cede management of internal network (both local and wide area) to a managed network provider	Blue Saffron Managed Data Network
Review existing expenditure	Review asset utilisation and costs paid	Blue Saffron IT Resource Management – this can include audit to help effectively cost benchmark and a review of Procurement process
Consider managed services	Consider partnering or outsourcing for non core activity	Blue Saffron Managed Services
Green IT	Historically not a genre of activity generally associated with a cost cutting agenda but today some large benefits to be reaped	Blue Saffron Green IT