IT Vendor Consolidation

Every CIO will hear this from his team, our IT is too complex, too difficult to maintain and increasingly challenging to secure. IT vendor consolidation is the new mantra in IT efficiency. All the Fortune 100 companies either completed vendor consolidation OR in the process of completing it.

IT vendor consolidation supposed to provide below things.

• Reduced costs
• Improved Efficiency
• Effective service delivery
• Streamline the relationship management

Some of the consolidations that can be considered are as below


Help desk consolidation: Depending on the maturity, select the help desk vendor in your area. Unicenter from CA, BMC software are couple of famous help desk consolidation software's available in the market.

Hardware consolidation: For network Cisco and for Server IBM is the buzz word in the industry.


IT Services consolidation: Select any matured IT company, which is having efficiency in your domain. Indian IT companies can easily provide Banking, Financial, Health care, Retail IT services. But if you are looking for specialized fields like mobile computing, social network, mobile commerce then it would be difficult to get handful of vendors.

Some of the things you may have to consider before going for consolidation.

• We would loose the flexibility
• Vendors would not work well together.
• Vendor lock in will reduce the Quality  
• Loss of pricing and bidding.

Whenever you are considering vendor consolidation, think about the business benefits you will be achieving through this. At the end of the day the parameter on the scale of success is  "How well you are serving your customer".

Happy reading and All the best.