RA Advisory

Efficient RFP process

Have you tried RFP process that keeps on dragging on, where the vendors are permitted so many edits that you need to manage numerous contracts, where the legal eagle from the vendor keeps adding clarification and the final negotiations take monhts?

If not, good for you. If you have, you may be interested in this white paper on efficient RFP processses.

Lengthy RFP processes appear to be the norm for complex technology procurement processes. Not only planned long, but with extensive overruns. In addition, the resulting agreements are often mediocre in the quality of requirements as well as agreement text. This document sets out an approach that in practice has shown execution in half the time of normal industry practice with better end-results.

BSS transformation

Are you contemplating a core IT replacement project? And perhaps a bit concerned over the complexity in starting such a project? If so, the white paper set out here may be of interest.

The BSS transformation white paper condensates the experience from many BSS transformations and describes a predictable process for such projects. The white paper can be found here.

Additional white paper on cross-border IT can be found here.

In addition, a rough cost estimator for BSS implementation can be found here.

SaaS Contracting

The SaaS contracting white paper discusses typical caveats when procuring SaaS based software.

If you are responsible for IT budgets or working with IT contracts, you most likely will encounter unexpected costs from SaaS vendors. These vendors have been pushing unpredictable software pricing and touting it as a consequence of the SaaS technology. Only it does not follow – or at least only marginally so.

The white paper that can be found here discusses the distinction between challenges that follows from the technology and challenges that are merely commercial. And also how the challenges may be countered.

Mobile network sharing

Mobile network sharing has the potential to reduce investments costs in a manner unequaled by any other measure in the technology space. The price you pay is a loss of control. There are several caveats in the design of the sharing and the corresponding contracting.

The mobile network sharing white paper condensates experience from multiple mobile network sharing engagements and describes a structured approach to entering into such agreements.

The white paper can be found by clicking here.