$4.5M without looking at a price sheet

We found $4.5M in cost avoidance without looking at a single price sheet.

The assessment covered around 3,000 employees and 10 vendors. By the end we had documented 32 gaps.

Almost none of them were “you’re paying too much.”

They were things like: two teams licensing overlapping capability because neither knew the other had it. A DR plan that had never been tested against the actual dependency map. Identity sprawl that turned every new integration into a custom project. Tooling bought for a problem that had since been solved a different way.

The savings weren’t in negotiating. They were in noticing.

That’s the underrated part of assessments. People treat them as a procurement exercise, or a formality before a migration. Done properly, an assessment is the only moment an organisation sees itself whole. Applications, data, identity, security, cost, and dependencies, on one page.

Most organisations have never seen that page.

The headline number was $4.5M. The actual deliverable was clarity.

What’s the most expensive thing your organisation is currently doing twice?