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Central Technology Services is the software industry’s leading financial services partner specializing in assisting Fortune 1000 companies and their vendors manage the financial, operational and budgetary issues associated with acquiring enterprise software and related technology assets. Central’s suite of software license solutions helps enterprise companies better manage their business, balance sheet and EBITDA drivers to leverage the industry’s evolving range of subscription, cloud and perpetual license software options. Read More »
OUR SOLUTIONS
Get perpetual software licensing at the lowest possible price, and only pay maintenance on the licenses you are using.
Take full advantage of available volume discounts and save up to 30% or more on your first-year operating expenses.
Optimize accounting for cloud software with volume discounts based on your future software needs while avoiding the costs of unused capacity.
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We partner with more than 40 of the top enterprise technology companies, including 8 of the top 10 Global 100 software leaders.
Contact us for multi-year software purchases involving a large volume of users deployed over time or when you are ready to invest in the cloud. Don’t let budget constraints delay necessary purchases.
We provide innovative, customized financial solutions that remove budgetary barriers from IT procurement. Over the last 20 years, we have structured more than a billion dollars in transactions, helping clients across Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. gain access to volume discounts on the technology they need and maximizing their ROI.
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Consumption-Based Licensing: Managing Risk in Enterprise Software Deployments
CapEx and OpEx management, project planning, ROIC, NPV, planning horizon, Gant charts, risk mitigation… all commonly-used terms in business cases for management of complex IT projects.
In most cases new software platforms are a foundation for transformation and software vendors are happy to help build sophisticated models with detailed project, resourcing and roll-out plans, supported by large licensing discounts for immediate volume purchases.
The problem? Project roll-outs rarely go as planned, delays are routine and cost overruns can take the return out of ROI.
Consumption-Based Licensing Case Study: New Technology & 40%+ Yr 1 OpEx Savings
If you’re an IT or IT finance professional and haven’t heard of the TBM Council ( www.tbmcouncil.org ), you should check it out. The Council is a non-profit, professional organization building the discipline of technology business management (TBM). It “provides technology leaders with standards and validated best practices to communicate the cost, quality, and value of IT investments to their business partners. In turn, IT is able to drive innovation for their organization.” Transparency is a TBM cornerstone. Consumption-based licensing is a natural fit with smart technology business management. Read this case study to see why.