Armed to overthrow the software mob bosses?
Let Invictus Partners be your fearless ally in the fight for control.
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.
• Defend yourself against a finding &/or take the best corrective action with expert guidance by ex-vendor executives & licensing specialists.
• Negotiate best outcome if a compliance breach is found.
• Gain clarity on licence entitlements, usage, & possible contractual restrictions to help evaluate your business case for Third-Party Support.
• Optimise your licensing structures ahead of a move.
• Move forward with clarity & certainty.
• Be prepared to easily respond to a vendor audit that is commonly triggered by a move to Third-Party Support.
• Take time & stress out of managing enterprise software licensing.
• No last-minute scramble at renewal/audit time.
• A cost-effective, fixed-price quarterly fee for ongoing licence optimisation.
• Single or multi-vendor management – SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, VMware etc.
• Extract more value from your SAM tools including ServiceNow, Flexera, VOQUZ etc.
• Eliminate exposure with clarity on current usage versus entitlements.
• Optimised, compliant go-forward position based on current & future needs.
• Single or multi-vendor optimisation – SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, VMware, ServiceNow, Salesforce etc.
• Clarity on perpetual entitlements, restrictions & metrics.
• Optimised licensing model for hyperscaler (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure) or hybrid cloud.
• Support & advice along your ERP journey, from strategising & scoping your ERP transformation, to vendor selection, to governance support & client advocacy.
• Assistance with business case development, market scans of software vendors & SIs, architectural considerations, RFx processes, documenting business processes & requirements, vendor evaluations & contract negotiations.
Software Licence Management
Save 21% on average on perpetual &/or cloud spend & eliminate non-compliance exposure across your enterprise software portfolio.
- Eliminate exposure with clarity on current usage versus entitlements.
- Optimised, compliant go-forward position based on current & future needs.
- Single or multi-vendor optimisation – SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, VMware, ServiceNow, Salesforce etc.
Cloud Licence Advisory
Avoid cost blow-out & compliance breaches when moving your application &/or infrastructure workloads to cloud.
- Clarity on perpetual entitlements, restrictions & metrics.
- Optimised licensing model for hyperscaler (Google Cloud Platform, Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure) or hybrid cloud.
Third-Party Support Licence Advisory
Understand contractual restrictions & avoid potential compliance breaches ahead of a move from vendor to Third-Party Support.
- Gain clarity on licence entitlements, usage, & possible contractual restrictions to help evaluate your business case for Third-Party Support.
- Optimise your licensing structures ahead of a move.
- Move forward with clarity & certainty.
- Be prepared to easily respond to a vendor audit that is commonly triggered by a move to Third-Party Support.
Next-Gen ERP Advisory
Make informed decisions & reduce your time & risk of moving to next-generation ERP with independent & agnostic advisory.
- Support & advice along your ERP journey, from strategising & scoping your ERP transformation, to vendor selection, to governance support & client advocacy.
- Assistance with business case development, market scans of software vendors & SIs, architectural considerations, RFx processes, documenting business processes & requirements, vendor evaluations & contract negotiations.
Software Licence Audit Defence
Get clarity of position & compliance upfront, before entering a vendor audit with SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM etc.
- Defend yourself against a finding &/or take the best corrective action with expert guidance by ex-vendor executives & licensing specialists.
- Negotiate best outcome if a compliance breach is found.
Software Asset Management
Eliminate nasty surprises at renewal/audit time & have ongoing clarity of your usage versus entitlements, to remain compliant, constantly optimised & make informed decisions instantly.
- Take time & stress out of managing enterprise software licensing.
- No last-minute scramble at renewal/audit time.
- A cost-effective, fixed-price quarterly fee for ongoing licence optimisation.
- Single or multi-vendor management – SAP, Oracle, Microsoft, IBM, VMware etc.
- Extract more value from your SAM tools including ServiceNow, Flexera, VOQUZ etc.
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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
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Client savings:
Client savings:
$2 BILLION
$825 MILLION
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 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
Katherine Xu
SAM Delivery Lead
Gabrielle Aitken Gibson
Marketing Director