Rationalization Management | Livingstone Group

One of the main reasons software and cloud investments are likely to yeald poor returns for many organizations, is when there is little or no proactive technical and operational rationalization of their usage taking place. Livingstone helps it’s clients keep their usage of cloud and software to a minimum through the provision of highly effective rationalization services.

Software Metering & Re-harvesting

Our Software & Cloud Rationalization service can be tailored to our clients unique needs to include the following…

Metering & re-harvesting of licensing from servers & users
Recovery of software licensing from decomissioned devices, which can be redeployed for new requirements
Subscription re-tiering – where product or cloud service needs can be maintained through a lower cost subscription

Licensing Allocation & Deployment Consolidation

Tracking the allocation of software licensing & services against previous user request justifications – to ensure continued usage is necessary
Tracking changing physical or virtual server infrastructure – identifies opportunities to change or consolidate licenses in order to reduce costs
Monitoring changing software support dependencies – to minimize server maintenance requirements

Application & Cloud Rationalization

Product rationalization analysis across applications & cloud services – to de-duplicate similar cloud & software products in deployment that reduces support & lifecycle costs
Analysis of cloud workloads – to rationalize cloud instances by improving utilization
Tracking cloud server deployments against planned lifecycle – ensures workloads are decommissioned efficiently