Our IT Practices

• System & Server Management
  ClearEdge supports clients across industries in licensing acquisitions ranging from $500,000 to $100M. This practice covers supplier sales and pricing systems, opportunity analysis, product positioning, transaction development and spending strategy and tactics. We help clients to uncover savings opportunities and create leverage via competitive, standalone and/or bundled transactions.
• Desktop Software
  ClearEdge supports client across industries in licensing acquisitions ranging from $500,000 to $100M. This practice covers supplier sales and pricing systems, opportunity analysis, product positioning, transaction development and spending strategy and tactics. We help clients to uncover savings opportunities and create leverage via competitive, standalone and/or bundled transactions.
• Mainframe Software
  This practice has supported more than $1B in client mainframe software contracts. In an area with little innovation or competition, and strong supplier pricing power, we guide clients in redefining their mainframe standards, environments and economics.
• Storage
  ClearEdge has advised clients of all sizes and industries in more than $1 Billion in storage acquisitions. Our team advises clients on powerful short-term transaction savings opportunities and long-term cost-cutting strategies for extending the lifecycle of existing technologies and taking advantage of rapid technology innovations to manage exploding data storage requirements.
• Business Intelligence
  ClearEdge has assisted major retail, transportation and financial institutions drive down costs and drive up performance in hundreds of millions of dollars worth of Business Intelligence (BI) licensing and acquisitions. This practice helps clients capture leverage over incumbent suppliers through a time of massive market consolidation, disruptive emerging technologies and increasing competition.
• Middleware & Database
  This practice has helped clients to neutralize incumbent suppliers' leverage in more than $1.5 billion of licensing transactions at a time of rapid middleware consolidation and ongoing database pricing power enjoyed a few key suppliers.
• Application Software
  As massive merger activity consolidates power with a few large application software providers, this practice helps clients develop spending event and licensing strategies to strengthen their economic position while acquiring solutions ranging from complete ERP systems to HR, sales and trading applications, data analytics and website development tools.
• Backup & Security
  This practice enables clients to build programs to handle the myriad of changes in their backup and security licensing and architectures. Clients rely on our proven ability to impact supplier proposals using 360-degree reviews to navigate them through the wide variety of existing technology, licensing and support models.
• Hardware: Mainframe, Server, Desktop
  ClearEdge has advised clients on several hundred million dollars of server and desktop hardware acquisitions and support contracts. We guide clients as they plan and design spending events to streamline process, uncover leverage opportunities and risks, and drive breakthrough economics with virtualization. This practice focuses on key pricing influences in large- and small-scale server markets, including channel programs, revenue recognition, deal approvals, product lifecycle, competition and street pricing.
• Network
  This practice delivers expertise in structuring and negotiating complex agreements as clients expand and mature their networks in a time of rapid convergence. Our team assists clients in understanding the complex interplay between networks and enterprise platforms as well as the rise in hosted data and application system environments.
• Outsourcing/Offshore
  This practice helps clients develop strategies to maximize their investment and reduce costs by understanding competitive market dynamics on vendor selection and agenda-setting strategies and addressing operational nuances. Our consultants advise clients on Market Pricing, Terms & Conditions, SLAs and emerging best practices and methodologies.
• Consulting/Managed Services
  This practice assists clients in identifying pricing gaps in their 3rd party consulting and Managed Services agreements and developing strategies to significantly reduce cost, with an emphasis on shorter development cycles, reduced risk, higher productivity cross-functional collaboration and stronger competition.