IT Outsourcing Advising & Strategy

The streaming media industry is experiencing tremendous growth, the landscape is shifting, and the marketplace is becoming increasingly complex. Understanding and selecting the optimum provider can be a difficult task for business managers and the need for a trusted sourcing advisor is more important than ever.

As specialized sourcing advisors, our practice areas are in content delivery, online video and rich media markets. We understand the landscape, the providers, the technologies and can articulate the differences each has to offer. Our approach is always vendor objective, partnering clients only with their most quality counterparts. We provide strategy development, independent, informative decision support, in-depth analysis and evaluation of solutions and providers.

What makes us different is our expertise and experience in the industry. We are a highly specialized team, very passionate about what we do and our clients needs are always our number one priority. Contact us to setup a 15 minute meeting with a CDN Quote advisor to learn more about our Sourcing Advising services and how we can help. A low cost alternative to our IT Outsourcing Advising services is our Expert Review service.

Strategic Sourcing Process

Our sourcing advisory team navigates clients though the entire process from start to finish. The sooner we are involved the better. By providing prospective early in the process we can quickly validate or modify clients scope, budget and requirements. Our goal is simply our clients success. A step-by-step view of our general process:

• Identify and base-line the business case, defining budget, scope and requirements
• RFP framework, early selection process, request proposals
• Review quotes, narrow most viable options
• Understand providers and offers, navigate complex offerings, compare offers and pricing
• Facilitate contracting and negotiations, clients needs being the priority

IT Outsourcing Advisor Advantage

Risk Reduction - Our experience and relationships with IT outsourcing partners provides us the ability to avoid the common pitfalls that trap many firms in the evaluation process. We build realistic expectations around each provider's offerings, capabilities and technologies. We are able to clearly differentiate providers and efficiently partner clients with the ones who best meet their needs.

Secure Better Contractual Terms - Our industry expertise and negotiation experience allows us to establish business terms and governance between clients and providers. We negotiate and secure the best terms possible for our clients.

Reduce Time-To-Contract Signing - Our knowledge and process save clients anywhere from 4-8 months of time. They no longer have to spend months researching providers, contacting providers, or negotiating with providers.

Financial Savings - Clients save money on the amount of time saved and our advisors are able to secure the best pricing the industry has to offer.

Post-Contract Advising - As sourcing advisors, we are our clients partner for the life-cycle of the contract. We help with post-contract implementation of the outsourcing transaction, outsource buyer/provider relationship management and re-negotiation. If clients want to manage their own provider relationships, we dedicate ourselves to supplying them with the knowledge, tools and skills they need to become self-sustainable.