Liquidware, the leader in adaptive workspace
management, today announced a series of new benchmarks to help organizations
identify cost savings areas utilizing the company's adaptive management
workspace suite. The benchmarks range from licensing costs to increased productivity.
"To establish our
trusted ROI approach, we worked with dozens of customers, including those in
healthcare, finance, and manufacturing. The goal from the outset has been to
determine where and how we can provide significant savings," commented
Liquidware president and COO Chris Akerberg. "We also engaged with the analyst
community, such as Gartner, IDC, and ESG, to validate our approach. Customers
confirmed the elements we focus on are exactly the kinds of areas that leading
analysts have highlighted to them for improvement. We are now rolling this out
as a structured ROI process for all our customers."
In collaboration
with customers, Liquidware identified five key areas for cost savings:
- Elimination/consolidation
of redundant and narrowly focused tools
- Software
license recovery savings from unused applications
- Hardware
lifecycle extension through optimization of existing desktops and servers
- Increased
productivity of administrators through staff-hours saved with streamlined
workspace management
- Drastically
lowering user downtime as a result of data disasters and desktop
transformations
One recent ROI
study by Liquidware focused on a 5,000-user manufacturing customer that was
able to realize both capital expenditure (CapEx) and operating expenditure
(OpEx) savings in a number of such areas. By working closely with the customer,
Liquidware found potential ROI savings in the following areas:
- Implementing
ProfileUnity User Environment Management to eliminate multiple other
software tools - Savings of $2,992,000 in CapEx costs
- Extending
hardware lifecycle with Stratusphere UX's Optimizer features - Savings of
$1,350,000 in CapEx costs
- Annual
software license cost savings through Stratusphere UX identifying unused
software licenses - Savings of $250,000 in CapEx costs
- Increasing
user and admin productivity with ProfileUnity, FlexApp, and Stratusphere
UX through automated migrations, streamlined image management, centralized
desktop admin, and a reduction of user downtime in troubleshooting -
Savings of $ 3,010,390 in OpEx costs
Even after
accounting for the licensing of Liquidware's Adaptive Workspace Management
suite, the total estimated savings for the customer featured in this study was estimated
at nearly $7M.
Liquidware has
developed an ROI calculator where customers can use their unique data in order
to calculate their savings and how their environment can benefit from
adaptive workspace management solutions. Visit https://www.liquidware.com/company/roi/ for information about the estimated ROI
for your organization. The link includes a quick inquiry form to start your
custom ROI calculation query.
Liquidware also
is offering customers a consultative approach once the calculator results have
been collated, whereby a Liquidware expert will analyze the findings with the
customer to determine the best way forward to produce a more dynamic workspace
environment and increase user productivity.
The process and
basis for Liquidware's ROI analysis is outlined in a whitepaper than can
be read here https://info.liquidware.com/New-ROI-Whitepaper_Whitepaper-Landing-Page.html
Finally, to
introduce this concept to a wider audience, Liquidware hosted a webinar on
January 27th. Watch the recording.