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The Real Value of Technology

What is it worth? What will it cost? ...How much?!

Whether you are preparing for a liquidity or capitalization event, or trying to plan for your next big IT initiative. Without understanding value of your IT investment and how it contributes to the business, how can a strong decision be made?

But, how do you set a value or a price on technology. After all, its not just about the cost of the servers and the software, its how the totality effects your business and clients as well. There are a thousand questions to be asked. And Affari’s team knows them all.

Just as your business is unique and different, so too are the value propositions of the investments in your technology. From simply reducing manual effort and time, to embodying your business’s services and offerings. With each, knowing the return on your investment is critical in making decisions across the entire business spectrum.

We work closely to assess and evaluate your current position to help derive a fact-based value that you can use to make informed decisions of investing more, expanding, or sometimes, retooling your information technology assets to provide the greatest return on investment possible.

Making the Investment Case

Like all other investments, information technology must be able to clearly demonstrate a value to the organization with measures in place to validate and track that value.

Due Diligence

Whether performing the due diligence on your behalf for that next acquisition or investment, the questions to be asked include cost justifications, potential market value, integration costs, risks and exposed it is to threats or loss. Knowing to ask the right questions is key to making the value determination.

Leveraging the Base

Working with vendors to get the best combination of price and services is always a challenge. Leveraging all Affari’s client vendor relationships provides the ability to best optimize the investments and get your firm the best possible deal.

Key Benefits

Is your information technology investments paying off? How do you even measure its effectiveness? Our Valuation service offering can set the direction by:

Why Valuations are Key

Understanding the real Bottom Line

Understanding the difference between technology return and technology cost is key to selecting, implementing and using the appropriate tools. Are you getting what the technology cost you?

Creating the Value Proposition

Making the case for your IT value makes the difference between increasing the offer or offsetting it in a liquidity even or equity investment. Showing how your investment has a positive return makes the difference

Vendor Management

Knowing the market can be as important as selecting the technology. Are you getting the best deal from the vendors? Can we create a competitive pressure on the vendors to optimize price? What services make sense? What is the best deal.

Preparing for Due Diligence

You have a deal on the table and the auditors are due to arrive. What are they going to find? How will they react to your observable situation? Affari’s team understands that key to the review is the value statement we can make for each element of the infrastructure. From accentuating the positives to justifying/remediation the negatives.

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