Georgia Technology Authority (GTA) Reduces Costs by $28.6 Million
"Without Gartner expertise and savvy in working with our technical and legal teams, we would not have achieved this level of savings."
—Roosevelt Council, CFO, Georgia Technology Authority
After consolidating several information services, GTA engaged Gartner Consulting to benchmark its IT spending environment. Several cost reduction opportunities were identified, including a restructuring of vendor contracts to yield USD$28.6 million in savings.
- Identify cost savings from a consolidated, streamlined organization
- Show how spending compares to peers of similar size and complexity
- Explore opportunities to restructure vendor contracts per the new organizational model
- Used Gartner IT cost benchmarking methodology to model GTA's cost structure for peer comparison
- Showed what a peer group of similar size and complexity would spend to deliver GTA's workload and service quality
- Restructured major telecom vendor contracts to adapt to the needs of the newly streamlined organization
- Developed the renegotiation strategy and provided at-the-table guidance throughout the vendor renegotiation
- Identified 15% savings in vendor expense, representing $28.6 million over five years
- Recommended management actions that would yield even more savings
GTA Case Study
