Chief Information Officer
Optimize Your Microsoft Strategy and Control Your Microsoft Costs
CIO Responsibilities
- Execute your organization’s IT strategy.
- Oversee teams that design, implement, and manage IT systems and solutions.
- Stay current on upcoming shifts in technologies that could disrupt existing plans and deployments.
- Evaluate new technologies for opportunities to gain a competitive advantage, cut costs, and minimize risks.
Business Challenges
- Microsoft is typically among the most important IT vendors; its technologies consume a significant portion of software budgets.
- With so many Microsoft technologies changing so quickly, it is hard for IT teams to keep up with the changes.
- Instead of being proactive and strategic, teams are reacting to disruptive changes they could have anticipated and prepared for.
- Licensing costs for Microsoft technologies continue to escalate.
Our Solution for the CIO
Directions is an all-in-one-place objective information source that gives the Chief Information Officer and their team clarity about Microsoft technologies, where they’re heading, and how they can be applied to your strategic IT scenarios.
Microsoft Strategy Assessment
Gain confidence you’re targeting the right Microsoft technologies, licensed the right way to achieve your IT priorities.
EA Negotiation Support
Optimize your Microsoft licensing agreements. Veterans of the Microsoft Business Desk and thousands of Enterprise Agreement (EA) negotiations bring unmatched knowledge and proven processes to your side of the table to help control your Microsoft costs, with an average expected ROI of 50X.
Expert Desk
Get authoritative and impartial answers to your most urgent Microsoft technology and licensing questions. Engage with Microsoft subject matter experts who become an extension of your team and add confidence to your most strategic decisions.
Licensing Boot Camp
Equip your IT planners and procurement team with the knowledge and understanding they need to keep your organization compliant without overbuying.
Microsoft EA Negotiation – Strategies
Former Microsoft Deal Desk executive and current head of Directions advisory services Dean Bedwell shares proven strategies and tactics for optimizing your EA renewal.
Executive Focus
Cut through the fog of Microsoft confusion. Independent industry experts share insight and information you can’t get anywhere else on the advantages and disadvantages of Microsoft technologies for solving top-of-mind problems.