Enterprise Software Advisory Services to help you get back on top.
How can we advise you?
Our Enterprise Software Consulting Services.
The software vendors won’t tell you if you’re spending too much, but Invictus Partners will. Our clients save 21% on average by restructuring their licensing and renegotiating software contracts.
Phase zero advisory to help develop digital transformation/software program strategy, goals, objectives, approach, scope, and high-level plan.
• Enterprise Software Selection Advisory:
Support to examine and evaluate the numerous application and vendor scenarios available, including criteria to help determine which options are viable and ideal.
Support to develop an enterprise software and supplier sourcing strategy that aligns the supplier base with strategic organisational outcomes.
• Software, Service & Support Provider Sourcing:
Support to expedite go-to-market processes, including market analysis, RFx content preparation, assessment and selection.
Negotiate directly with vendors, or provide behind the scenes advice, to drive optimal commercial outcomes rather than accepting standard vendor terms or uplift.
• Strategic Contract Alignment:
Renegotiation of software contracts, to align with evolving strategic direction, as well as business and IT priorities.
Independent and objective quality assurance to help minimise program risk, including the provision of mitigation strategies and communication with key stakeholders and Boards.
• Client Advocacy:
Independent advice that helps ensure ongoing alignment of vendors and service providers with program objectives, throughout deployment and beyond.
Outsourced vendor management to facilitate value-based vendor relationships and reduce the cost and complexity of managing multiple software vendors.
• Licence Management -as-a-Service:
Licence baselines and health checks for the major enterprise software vendors, provided as an ongoing service.
• Licence Health Check:
A point in time effective licence position (ELP) for the major enterprise software vendors.
• Software Asset Management:
Expertise and knowledge of best-practice processes, systems and tools to support an effective and efficient SAM program.
• Pre-emptive Audit Simulation:
Test-run of vendor audit processes to minimise exposure, maximise compliance, and ensure readiness in the event of an audit.
• IP Infringement Defence:
Confirmation and challenge of vendor infringement findings, including support to negotiate a settlement to minimise financial exposure.
Support for cost effective and compliant contracts when moving application and infrastructure workloads to cloud.
• Move to Third Party Maintenance (TPM):
Provision of an effective licence position to prepare for the move, and support to optimise TPM contracts.
• Licence & Subscription Optimisation:
Provision of an ongoing view of current usage and advice to help remain compliant, cost-optimised and aligned with strategic goals.
• Supplier Optimisation:
Review, rationalise and consolidate the Enterprise Software supplier base to align with strategic outcomes, reduce costs and increase efficiencies.
- Enterprise Software & Solutions Strategy:
- Enterprise Software Selection Advisory:
Phase zero advisory to help develop digital transformation/software program strategy, goals, objectives, approach, scope and high-level plan.
Support to examine and evaluate the numerous application and vendor scenarios available, including criteria to help determine which options are viable and ideal.
- Sourcing Strategy:
- Software, Service & Support Provider Sourcing:
Support to develop an enterprise software and supplier sourcing strategy that aligns the supplier base with strategic organisational outcomes.
Support to expedite go-to-market processes, including market analysis, RFx content preparation, assessment and selection.
- New Contracts & Renewals:
- Strategic Contract Alignment:
Negotiate directly with vendors, or provide behind the scenes advice, to drive optimal commercial outcomes rather than accepting standard vendor terms or uplift.
Renegotiation of software contracts, to align with evolving strategic direction, as well as business and IT priorities.
- Independent Quality Assurance:
- Client Advocacy:
Independent and objective quality assurance to help minimise program risk, including the provision of mitigation strategies and communication with key stakeholders and Boards.
Independent advice that helps ensure ongoing alignment of vendors and service providers with program objectives, throughout deployment and beyond
- Vendor Management as-a-Service:
- Licence Management-as-a-Service:
- Licence Health Check:
- Software Asset Management:
Outsourced vendor management to facilitate value-based vendor relationships and reduce the cost and complexity of managing multiple software vendors.
Licence baselines and health checks for the major enterprise software vendors, provided as an ongoing service.
A point in time effective licence position (ELP) for the major enterprise software vendors.
Expertise and knowledge of best-practice processes, systems and tools to support an effective and efficient SAM program.
- Audit Defence:
- Pre-emptive Audit Simulation:
- IP Infringement Defence:
Confirmation of the licence position and actively remediate before responding to a vendor audit, including support to negotiate the best outcome when a breach is identified.
Test-run of vendor audit processes to minimise exposure, maximise compliance, and ensure readiness in the event of an audit.
Confirmation and challenge of vendor infringement findings, including support to negotiate a settlement to minimise financial exposure.
- Move to Cloud Hyperscaler:
- Move to Third Party Maintenance (TPM):
- Licence & Subscription Optimisation:
- Supplier Optimisation:
Support for cost effective and compliant contracts when moving application and infrastructure workloads to cloud.
Provision of an effective licence position to prepare for the move, and support to optimise TPM contracts.
Provision of an ongoing view of current usage and advice to help remain compliant, cost-optimised and aligned with strategic goals.
Review, rationalise and consolidate the Enterprise Software supplier base to align with strategic outcomes, reduce costs and increase efficiencies.
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We’ve helped hundreds of clients optimise their enterprise software strategy across Australia, Europe, the UK, Middle East and the US.
Our Story
Our vision is to create global equity, value, and control in enterprise software. Fuelled by challenging experiences growing up in South Africa, our founder Doug Gibson has drawn on the inspiration of the Invictus poem and its connection to Nelson Mandela to imbue our business with the belief that every organisation and every individual has the potential to become the “master of their fate”.
“It matters not how strait the gate,
How charged with punishments the scroll,
I am the master of my fate,
I am the captain of my soul.”
– William Ernest Henley
Client savings:
Client savings:
$2 BILLION
$1.2 BILLION
What we do:
Invictus Partners releases the shackles of enterprise software agreements to help our clients optimise cost, realise value and maintain compliance.
Our mission:
To create $2 billion of enterprise software savings globally.
So far, we’re just shy of $1.2 billion.
Why we do it:
Shifting the balance of power.
With Invictus Partners, you’ll get a perspective you probably won’t hear from software vendors and their network of partners. We understand how it feels to get screwed by a software vendor and it doesn’t feel good. That’s why we’re arming our clients with intricate knowledge about their actual software usage versus contractual entitlements, and the tools and processes to help them remain optimised and compliant, so they can negotiate with their software vendors confidently.
After years of working at big vendors, our team had witnessed many organisations spending hundreds of thousands of dollars on unnecessary licence and support costs, and even millions on failing compliance audits. We’re committed to building lasting partnerships with our clients and ensuring they feel empowered in their software vendor relationships, they never get screwed again.
Doug Gibson
Founder & Managing Partner
Russell Sands
Partner
Janine Burns
Partner
Sue Hope
IBM Practice Lead
Helen Divitcos
SAP Practice Lead
Mark Deves
Commercial Advisory Principal
Gabrielle Aitken Gibson
Marketing Director