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While they are an integral part of most businesses - often with a primary function of delivering cost savings and efficiencies - they must be kept up-to-date to ensure they achieve those aims. So now is a good time to undertake an IT systems review, and look at consolidation and streamlining. Changes to business structures, acquisitions and a system's age are other triggers for an IT stock take.

Indeed, many of our retail clients have achieved significant IT-spend savings by auditing existing providers and their terms.

The audits have provided opportunities for consolidating their IT requirements, especially among clients experiencing huge growth or recent changes to business structures. And we find that the audits often pave the way for negotiating better terms and service levels.

Our IT specialists have considerable experience of dealing with both the audits and the resulting negotiations.

And those of you with in-house IT systems need not feel left out: you might find this a good time to look at outsourcing as a way of trimming costs. Whichever path you choose, our IT specialists will be able to advise you, from audits to contract terms to outsourcing.