IT Solutions

Software Management

Save time, save money, maintain control.

Flexible hybrid technology is helping organisations deliver better business outcomes and improve time to value from their IT investments.

Our enterprise software solutions are designed to help accelerate your business outcomes whilst ensuring there are no unplanned or unforeseen impacts on the governance and cost of how you procure, deploy, consume and manage your software assets.

Our approach to software transformation

We take a customer success approach to understand your current software estate, therefore we value the importance of collaborating and forging strong partnerships.

Our ethos is to help organisations to select, buy, renew and manage the right software products. Ensuring  you’re able to optimise the right solutions and reduce your annual software costs for your organisation and maximising the lifecycle of your software procurements. 

SCC have the capability to support end to end supply chain management of software. We have a large portion of professional and managed services attached to key vendors. By utilising software methodology and SPA’s we can support to decreased sales cycles and increased speed of delivery to all of our customers to provider a greater competitive advantage.

How software management can help to support you with

Cost reduction

Reducing risk

Providing budget predictability

Rationalisation of duplicate technologies

Providing visibility of vendor intelligence

How can SCC help?

Discover

We’ll support you on your transformation journey by understanding what you want to achieve, then working with you to find the best way of getting there, by reviewing your current software deployment, entitlement and existing contracts.

Design

We’ll design a solution offering and work with you to select the appropriate technology for optimal efficiency.

Supply

Our aim is to minimise ‘shelfware’ and only recommend what you consume to improve business outcomes. Our Software Advisory Service offers expert, software buying advice across multi-vendor software solutions.

Implement

We believe that you should only renew what you need and when you need it so you’re getting the most of the software solutions implemented.

Manage

Our managed services are designed to enhance our standard offering with proactive monitoring, strategic design reviews and ongoing assessments to give the best possible experience.

Optimise

Maximise your ROI by managing your Software Assets through their adoption lifecycle. We’ll also support you to continuously review your software assets for optimal performance and usage.

Our software solutions

Digital Workplace

E5 optimisation, VDI and employee productivity tools

Cloud Services

Containers, automation, Cloud optimisation

Data Protection & Security

Next Generation back up, Cyber resiliency, SaaS resiliency

Data Value & AI

Automation, API tools, Data integration, governance, data management

Enterprise Applications

Platform solutions, MS dynamics, IBM applications

ITAM (SAM) Fin Ops

SaaS optimisation, cloud optimisation Fin Ops integration

Software Marketplace Services

Streamline software procurement and accelerate your digital transformation with SCC Marketplace Services

How do we do this?

Software solution specialists

By leveraging 3rd party and distribution we help to investigate opportunities and reduce costs with regards to renewals. Our solution specialists highlight improvements and recommendations to consolidate and remove duplicate technology.  Service review meetings help to keep abreast of changes.

Technical expertise pre & post sales

SCC’s customer success management teams & internal account team prioritise early engagement (ideally 6 months prior to renewal dates). Our vendor partner management team roadmap the journey ahead so we’re abreast of key changes to both benchmark and negotiate the right solution for your organisation.

Licensing to solution selling

Advise on if software can be purchased via marketplace and comparing with traditional purchase route. With our Software Payment Agreement (SPA) we offer multi-year renewals to maximise vendor discounts to support budget predictability.

Our partners

Our partnerships with more than 600 unique vendors, including specialist software vendor partners, is built on a single common belief: that a truly agile infrastructure should allow your business to work across any platform, not just the one your cloud or technology provider wants you to use. 

Why SCC?

We have the ability to support end to end supply chain management of software

We have a large portion of professional and managed services attached to key vendors

By utilising software methodology and SPA’s we can support to decreased sales cycles and increased speed of delivery to all of our customers to provider a greater competitive advantage

Our customers

Organisations who trust SCC with their software

“Understanding the complexities of modern day software licensing is a highly regarded skill set. A skill set that SCC, a partner we have worked with for over 12 years, has in abundance. They have worked with us on the discovery and validation of our software estate, helping us to negotiate new and efficient master agreements with one of our leading software vendors. SCC provided the necessary resources through their software solutions specialist to help us develop comprehensive business case options to support the licensing of our cloud-based infrastructure. They are our trusted licensing advisor and we look forward to continuing to work with them as our software estate evolves.”

Claire Hughes
Category Lead, Procurement & Commercial Group
HM Land Registry

“Grafton Group and SCC have worked together as a true partnership on the major IT projects required to realise our vision of a true Group IT approach. From assisting us with hosting our major ERP investment, through the rollout of Microsoft Office to our 9,000 users, SCC have taken a professional and detail orientated approach to each and every challenge we have set them. We trust their advice, their judgement and their processes and look forward to working with them more as a trusted adviser and partner in the development and expansion of our business.”

Nathan Bishop
Group IT Services Director
Grafton Group

Consume

SCC’s Cloud Consumption methodologies and tooling help optimise your current operations. We will ensure you have the correct processes, software tooling and services to deliver the greatest ROI.

CSP Advisory Service

Our CSP Advisory Services enable organisations to identify suitable opportunities to leverage cloud computing services for sustainable business benefits. We help you develop an overall cloud computing strategy to enable and optimise your chosen software solutions. See more » 

FastTrack Services

As a FastTrack Ready Partner, SCC are approved by Microsoft to provide the FastTrack benefit to our customers. We’re backed by Microsoft engineering providing you with the confidence you need for your transformation with Microsoft 365. See more » 

Cloud Readiness Assessments

SCC Cloud Readiness Assessment helps organisations answer the most challenging questions presented to them when embarking on a cloud journey. Using our proven methodology we will provide a holistic view of your estate, focusing on the challenges, costs, and risks associated with adopting public cloud. See more » 

Application Modernisation 

Planning upgrades to operating systems without looking at modernising the delivery of applications will quickly put operations back to square one, leaving employees and productivity waning. SCC’s Application Modernisation Services provides customers with full Applications Lifecycle Management. 

Public Cloud Services

The public cloud is best suited for organisations looking to offload management of their IT infrastructure, enjoy instant scalability, and optimise their infrastructure spend. SCC’s Hyperscale business provides a complete suite of cloud enablement services. These include cloud readiness assessments, health checks, migration, tooling, architecting, deployment and more, along with first-class 24/7 support. 

Dedicated Customer Success Managers

SCC’s customer success managers supervise a cross-functional team dedicated to the success of your software project. They work directly with your teams to ensure your organisation is getting the most out of the software solutions implemented. 

Manage

Managing software assets from multiple vendors, all of whom have differing price structures, terms and policies is complex. 
SCC’s solutions will proactively assess your current position with vendor contracts and licenses, identifying issues, on an ongoing basis. We help you to understand how you can achieve optimum value from your software. See more » 

Software Asset Lifecycle Management (SALM)

We’ll help you use the best in software asset management methodologies and tooling to optimise your current operations. We will ensure you have the correct processes, software tooling and services to deliver the greatest ROI. 

SALM Maturity Assessments

SCC’s Software Asset Management Maturity Assessment will benchmark where your organisation is currently. We’ll then advise what you need to do to achieve the agile approach to managing your software assets throughout their lifecycle. 

Hosted SALM Tool

The best software asset lifecycle management tools make it easy to reduce costs by identifying the software licenses across your organisation. Our hosted software asset lifecycle management tool enables full visibility of your entire software estate. 

Dedicated SALM Specialists

Our software asset lifecycle management specialists are an experienced and highly qualified team. This dedicated team will help you save money, time and resource and help get the business results you require.

Optimise

Software optimisation ensures your organisation has the optimal amount of licenses. SCC’s software optimisation solutions can help improve the cost efficiencies around your software estate. The four main areas that form optimisation are: requirement, ownership, inventory and usage. 

Virtualisation Platforms

Switching to a virtual platform versus on-premise has many extra benefits that are appealing to organisations of all sizes. There are many benefits by taking advantage of SCC’s virtualisation opportunities.solutions including cost reduction, energy savings, improved DR and security and agile innovation.

Infrastructure and Workload Optimisation

The ability to continuously deliver application performance while minimising costs is critical. It enables teams to innovate and run applications efficiently. SCC’s infrastructure and workload optimisation solution assures application performance by giving workloads the resources they need, when they need them. 

Infrastructure Automation and Containerisation

Utilising our infrastructure automation and containerisation solutions enables a streamlined way for your organisation to build, test, deploy and re-deploy applications on multiple environments. 

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