EquaTerra Focused on Meeting Clients' Business and IT Optimization Needs View a print-friendly version Specifically in Cloud Computing, Shared Services, and Infrastructure and Application Consolidation Houston and London (November 18, 2010) – The global economic crisis, disruptive and unproven new technologies, political rhetoric and a variety of other factors are driving many organizations to rethink their service delivery models. Yet amidst this uncertain operating environment, EquaTerra, a business advisory firm known globally for helping companies optimize internal support functions, continues to leverage its cross functional expertise to help its clients attain their desired functional expertise to help its clients attain their desired incremental and transformational improvements in both information technology (IT) and business process optimization. Said Mark Toon, EquaTerra CEO, “As we emerge from the recession, our clients are facing unknowns and exploring new markets for growth. Our purposely-built teams are well suited to support the dynamics these organizations currently face: disruptive computing architecture and solutions, changing global footprint and an increasingly diverse workforce – often delivered with a combination of internal and external providers and talent.” Stan Lepeak, EquaTerra Managing Director of Research, added, "Organizations are no longer looking at outsourcing function-by-function and process-by-process. Those in the vanguard are looking for ways to sustain their competitive advantage by holistically rethinking their business service models.” Examples of IT and business optimization services EquaTerra currently delivers to clients include: Business Optimization Cloud Computing –Evaluation and migration of employee productivity and collaboration tools such as those offered by Google, Microsoft, salesforce.com and Workday. The business cases EquaTerra has helped its clients develop for application-based cloud services support strong ROI, many with 30-40 percent net reduction in total cost of ownership. Shared Services – Support of a range of global organizations as they create, expand and implement shared services centers in the U.S., Europe and around the world, in process areas including finance and accounting, human resources and procurement. EquaTerra’s shared services experts – with both new and mature organizations – have typically helped clients achieve savings of 20 to 35 percent. IT Optimization IT Strategy & Supply/Demand Management – Assistance in establishing clients’ migration paths and attaining their transformation objectives for their IT organizations, as well as support in evaluating the supply side, internal and external, and the internal governance structure. This critical alignment of supply and demand management operations delivers measurable ROI to clients. ERP Assurance – Leverage of EquaTerra’s ERP assurance services to implement, upgrade or expand their ERP systems, and help set and achieve their business ERP case. While these services support clients across the ERP lifecycle, EquaTerra recently helped one of its clients reduce its ERP budget by $100 million, approximately one-fifth of its total project value, while still attaining the originally-planned functionality. Data Center Consolidation – Support of global clients’ data center portfolios as the growth of enterprise data, adoption of cloud technologies and ongoing applications consolidation strategies place continuing pressure on data center management and cost containment. Several EquaTerra data center clients are routinely achieving savings of 10-40 percent on a net basis. To learn more about our optimization services, please contact the following:   Americas: Rick Bertheaud Managing Director, Shared Services +1 413 427 9952 rick.bertheaud@equaterra.com Brian Walker Managing Director, IT Consulting, North America +1 832 331 9725 brian.walker@equaterra.com Europe Lee Ayling Managing Director, IT Advisory +44 (0)845 838 7500 lee.ayling@equaterra.com Claudio Altini Managing Director, Shared Services +44 (0)845 838 7500 claudio.altini@equaterra.com About EquaTerra EquaTerra sourcing advisors help clients achieve sustainable value in their IT and business processes. Our advisors average more than 20 years of industry experience and have supported more than 2,000 transformation and outsourcing projects across more than 60 countries. Supporting clients throughout the Americas, Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, we have deep functional knowledge in Finance and Accounting, HR, IT, Procurement, Real Estate & Facilities Management and other critical business processes. EquaTerra helps clients achieve significant cost savings and process improvement with internal transformation, shared services and outsourcing solutions. For more information, please contact Lee Ann Moore at +1 713.669.9292; www.equaterra.com. North American Media Contact: Kim Messerschmitt Director of Marketing +1 972 987 1686 kim.messerschmitt@equaterra.com