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Technology management and intelligence IT support.

The ongoing management of your technology ecosystem as one portfolio, not a pile of vendor relationships — because the ecosystem doesn't manage itself. Included on every service SpearPoint places, and available as a managed engagement for the rest of the stack.

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The Problem We Manage Against

Vendor debt: the accumulated cost of technology nobody is actively managing.

Today's IT ecosystem is dozens of vendors, contracts, renewals, and portals, each one owned by nobody in particular. The cost of that isn't on any invoice. Reducing it is most of what a technology advisor does after the signature.

What is vendor debt?

The accumulated cost of technology nobody is actively managing.

Overlapping tools doing the same job. Auto-renewals that fired before anyone looked. Licenses paid for and never assigned. Contracted rates that don't match the invoice. Escalations that bounce between vendors because no one owns the outcome. Every one of them is small. Together they are the largest line item you can't see.

Quick check: how many of these are true today?

0/6Tick what applies — nothing is recorded.
TM

Technology Management

The ongoing management of your technology ecosystem as one portfolio, not a pile of vendor relationships. This is the Roadmap phase of C.L.E.A.R., run continuously.

  • Single inventory of every service, contract, rate, SLA, and renewal date
  • Monthly invoice-to-contract reconciliation; overages and errors disputed for you
  • Renewal strategy 90 days ahead — renegotiate, consolidate, or retire, never auto-renew
  • License and seat right-sizing; overlapping tools identified and rationalized
  • Vendor performance tracked against SLA; quarterly review with leadership
  • Technology roadmap kept current as the business changes
IQ

Intelligence IT Support

Support that knows your environment before you call, powered by SHELBY — one point of contact for the whole ecosystem, with the vendor-management muscle to get things fixed.

  • One number to call. We own the escalation with every vendor until it's resolved
  • SHELBY intelligence: contracts, renewals, spend, and tickets in one continuously watched view
  • Moves, adds, changes, and provisioning coordinated across suppliers
  • Proactive alerts on renewals, price changes, contract milestones, and end-of-life
  • Executive dashboards: spend by category, vendor health, savings captured, open issues
  • Full disclosure of advisor compensation on every placed service

The advisor's job is the whole lifecycle. Buying well is the beginning. Maximizing the impact of what you bought, and keeping vendor debt from quietly growing back, is the rest of the relationship — and it's included when SpearPoint places the service.

What Changes

Before and after an advisor owns the portfolio.

Before
  • Contracts live in inboxes; renewal dates are discovered when the invoice changes.
  • Invoices are paid, not reconciled.
  • Seats and licenses grow with headcount and never shrink.
  • Every outage starts with "whose problem is this?"
  • Leadership sees IT spend once a year, at budget time.
After
  • Every contract, rate, SLA, and renewal in SHELBY, with alerts 90 days ahead.
  • Monthly invoice-to-contract reconciliation; overages disputed for you.
  • Right-sizing at every renewal; overlap retired.
  • One number to call. We own the vendor until it's fixed.
  • Quarterly review: spend, vendor health, savings captured, open issues.
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