Find out what a Baseline would have to establish.
Tell us the shape of the environment and this describes the work: what the Baseline would need to establish, and which areas are worth investigating. It does not tell you what you might save, because nothing that reads four inputs honestly can.
What you get back
A description of the workNot a number
What an opportunity is worth depends on your terms, your exit costs and how your position holds up against your own estate and outside evidence. That is the Benchmark stage, and it comes after the evidence.
- Inputs
- Four Locations, providers, categories, evidence
- Output
- A scope What the work would have to cover
- Estimate
- None What it is worth comes after the evidence
What would a Technology Baseline need to evaluate?
Four answers, and you get a description of the work rather than a number. There is no savings estimate here on purpose: what an opportunity is worth is a question for the Benchmark stage, after the evidence exists.
Enough sites, providers and categories that the picture is unlikely to live in one place. Expect real reconciliation work between what the documents say and what is actually running.
- The service footprint across 25 locations, and which sites differ from the standard
- What each of roughly 12 providers actually supplies, and under which agreement
- Contract terms, notice windows, commitments and the obligations attached to them
- What is being billed, reconciled against what was agreed
- Category coverage across 3 areas: connectivity and network, cloud and infrastructure, software and saas
- Which facts are verified, which are only supported or assumed, and which are missing entirely
- Whether sites have drifted onto different standards, and whether any are still billing after closing or changing
- Whether services are running without a current agreement on file to govern them
- Whether the network design still matches what the sites actually need
- How the commercial terms hold up against your own estate and outside evidence, which is the Benchmark stage rather than the Baseline
Some of it is documented and some is not. Expect part of the Baseline to be recovering agreements, and expect some facts to end up graded as assumed until the source turns up.
What an opportunity is worth depends on your contract terms, what exit would cost, and how your position holds up against outside evidence. None of that is knowable from four inputs, and a figure produced without it would be an average from somebody else's estate.
From the scope to the record.
A Technology Baseline builds the record this scope describes, starting from the invoices and agreements you already have, and marks what the evidence cannot yet show.