Accounts Payable Analysis
Identifying Your Technology Costs & Obligations
Gain Clarity, Certainty & Control over Your Technology Landscape
The 6 Steps to Getting a Clear View of Your Technology Costs
Over the last 30 years, I've watched companies struggle with an increasingly complex technology landscape. My proven methodology helps CIOs, CFOs, and IT executives gain clarity and control over their technology investments.
Refined with collaboration from leaders at:
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A simple, 6-step approach refined over 30 years of consulting engagements to baseline, manage and optimise your technology contracts and obligations.
Vendor Invoice Review
Gathering Your Service Blueprint
Vendor Record Reconciliation
Verifying Your Service Records
Usage & Capacity Analysis
Optimizing Your Asset Utilization
Baseline Database Development
Build a Simple Tech Asset Tracker
Monthly Executive Reporting
Transforming Data Into Strategic Decisions
How Can We Help?
Our expertise spans industry verticals as well as process and technology domains, and our vendor-agnostic approach ensures true partnership in driving business outcomes.
Broad Capabilities
Technology Cost Assessment
Baseline all telecom & cloud spend
Full visibility into every telecom, cloud & SaaS charge—before we negotiate a single dollar.
Vendor Selection
Find the right partners
Objective evaluation of vendors based on your specific requirements and business goals.
Vendor Contract Negotiation
Leverage 30 years of benchmarks
Benchmarking 30 yrs of rate data to slash costs and lock in flexible terms.
Lifecycle Asset Management
Track from activation to retirement
Track each circuit, license & device from activation to retirement—no more zombie services.
Deep Domain Expertise
Network & Connectivity
SD-WAN, SASE, MPLS, DIA
SD-WAN, SASE, MPLS, DIA—designed, sourced & optimized.
UCaaS / CCaaS
Align with hybrid-work needs
Align license mix and QOS with hybrid-work user behaviour.
Cloud & Colocation
Right-size workloads & costs
Right-size workloads, interconnects and egress to cut spend.
Cybersecurity & Compliance
Zero-Trust, MDR & compliance
Zero-Trust, MDR and compliance controls scoped for ROI.
About Don Chester
With over 30 years of experience consulting with medium and large multi-location organizations, I've developed a methodology that stands out because it's simple, concise, and easy to maintain.
My mission is to help you gain certainty about your technology asset inventory and costs so you can make informed decisions. I became so frustrated watching technology providers offer absolutely no help to their customers that I created a framework to help my clients make sense of the chaos.
30+
Years Experience
50+
Enterprise Clients
12-15%
Average Client Savings
What Our Clients Say
Hear from executives who have gained clarity and control over their technology costs
"Don Chester and his Group drove several network-related initiatives. In one of those engagements he performed an inventory and optimization project which saved over a million dollars the first year. He also provides us an on-going inventory with a detailed analysis of telecom/network expenses, and identifies unused circuits, lines and services that are producing unnecessary cost."
Senior Director – Supplier Management
7-Eleven
"Don and his company provided us with a detailed inventory and assessment of our primary vendor's main telecom bill, which averages about $50,000 per month, resulting in a net savings of over 20% to UTSW. He also monitored the cleanup of the unneeded services which resulted in additional credits of almost $40,000 for late disconnect charges."
Director, Telecommunications & Networks
UT Southwestern Medical Center
"Don's methodology helped us identify over $250,000 in unnecessary technology expenses in just the first month. His systematic approach brought clarity to our complex technology landscape."
IT Director
Anderson Trucking Service
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