Retainer Relationships - IT Professional

Nemertes analysts most typically work with clients on an annual retainer basis. Our advisory services are designed to help senior corporate executives with strategic, technology-related business planning. We take a hands-on, proactive approach to your company’s business needs, ensuring that our recommendations—which always are based on the information we glean from scores of interviews with IT executives in a wide range of industries—are tailored to your needs.

For IT executives, retainer services include:

• Strategic technology planning and review sessions. A Nemertes analyst will meet with you and validate that your strategic direction, technology investments, and overall architecture address current and future IT requirements, based on demonstrated operational, organizational, and technical best practices deployed at leading Fortune 500 companies, government, non-profits and other organizations.

• RFP assessment and response reviews. To ensure that your strategic technology acquisitions are in line with overall best practices, we review RFPs for major purchases (hardware, software, telecommunications and other services) and provide feedback and guidance on how to obtain responses that most effectively meet your needs. We also provide guidance around the assessment of RFP responses.

• “Peer-reviewed” assessments of leading vendors and service providers. Ever wonder which vendors and service providers have the best (or worst) technology, customer service, or support? Now you don’t have to—we give you detailed assessments of vendors and service providers based on direct feedback from other IT organizations. Our assessments are unbiased, because the source of our data is people like you—the IT executives making the buying decisions and using the products and services every day.

• Return-on-investment analysis and cost models. Nemertes will help you quantify the real costs and benefits of deploying, managing, and supporting technology based on quantitative data from our benchmarks. Whether you’re building a business case for investment in a particular technology, or have concerns about the hidden costs of products and services that are touted by vendors as the next big thing, we give you the data and analysis you need.

For more information, please contact us.