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Portfolio management and advisory
Find and fix hidden waste across tail spend, renewals, and SaaS
Bring your entire technology portfolio into view
Big strategic vendors typically command most attention. But there are savings to be made across your entire IT portfolio. Tail spend, SaaS, hardware, renewals, and duplicated applications should all be managed to reduce waste. The challenge is getting visibility of it all.
SHI’s Portfolio Management and Advisory services shine a light across all of your estate — including the often-overlooked areas — to reduce costs, risk, and complexity. The result? You make better decisions with improved confidence to achieve greater value.
Why unmanaged portfolio complexity creates hidden cost and risk
Technology portfolios rarely stay tidy. Smaller vendors, recurring renewals, overlapping applications, SaaS sprawl, and aging hardware can all create cost, workload, and risk that build up over time. Because these issues often sit across disconnected teams and processes, they are easy to miss and hard to manage consistently. SHI helps customers bring clarity to the full portfolio, improve lifecycle decisions, and turn fragmented activity into more deliberate, value-led management.
See the full portfolio clearly
SHI helps you build a clearer picture of what is in your portfolio, where spend is concentrated, which contracts and renewals matter most, and where overlap, waste, or unmanaged activity may be forming.
Make smarter lifecycle decisions
With better visibility, SHI helps customers align buying, renewal, rationalization, and optimization decisions to actual usage, future demand, and business priorities so the portfolio becomes easier to govern and justify.
Optimize continuously across the estate
SHI helps make optimization an ongoing discipline, not a one-time exercise. By improving visibility and decision-making throughout the lifecycle, we help reduce operational burden, strengthen control, and create more value over time.
How app rationalization streamlines your software ecosystem
See how application rationalization can reduce overlap, improve efficiency, and simplify decisions.
Application portfolios grow quickly, especially after years of new purchases, changing business needs, and overlapping tools. This blog explores how application rationalization helps organizations make more confident decisions about which tools to keep, consolidate, replace, or retire.
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Unused software can cost millions of dollars and put your business at risk. App rationalization can fix that.
September 06, 2024Streamline lifecycle and tail spend
Long-tail vendors and lifecycle activity create disproportionate workload, fragmented spend, and hidden risk across the portfolio.
How we help:
We bring structure to tail spend by baselining usage, validating demand, and managing requests, renewals, and vendors in a more joined-up way, so decisions reflect what’s really needed.
The result:
Lower costs, less operational overhead, and clearer visibility, with more consistent control across fragmented vendors and day-to-day lifecycle activity.
Rationalize your applications
Application portfolios grow quickly through duplication, overlap, and changing business needs, creating cost, complexity, and technical debt.
How we help:
We help you understand what’s in your portfolio, where tools overlap, and what they cost, then guide decisions on what to keep, consolidate, or retire, supporting both planning and execution.
The result:
A simpler, more focused application landscape, with lower costs, less duplication, and clearer, more confident decisions about where to invest.
Turn SaaS insight into savings
SaaS sprawl creates hidden spend, duplicated tools, compliance gaps, and limited visibility across users, licenses, and usage.
How we help:
We uncover what’s being used, identify waste and duplication, and introduce governance and automation to bring SaaS access, renewals, and spend back under control.
The result:
Reduced SaaS costs, stronger compliance, and better visibility, making it easier to manage spend and optimize continuously over time.
Make contracts easier to manage
Contract portfolios often lack governance, with hidden risk in terms, renewals, and obligations across hundreds of agreements.
How we help:
We assess agreements, standardize how decisions are made, and support vendor negotiations so terms are aligned, risks are understood, and renewals are handled more consistently.
The result:
Lower contractual risk, reduced workload for legal and procurement, and stronger control over vendor terms, obligations, and outcomes.
Simplify hardware management
Hardware estates quickly become difficult to track, with devices spread across users, locations, and environments. Without clear visibility, it’s hard to manage inventory, plan refresh cycles, or avoid unnecessary cost and risk.
How we help:
We bring structure to your hardware lifecycle, from discovery and inventory through to deployment, refresh, and disposal, so assets are tracked and managed consistently.
The result:
Better visibility, lower costs, and more control, with less operational effort and more confident lifecycle decisions.
Solution
Real outcomes from smarter portfolio management
These examples show how organizations move from fragmented, reactive management to a more structured, value-led approach across their technology portfolios. The result is not just savings, but a more predictable, manageable portfolio that supports better outcomes over time.
Tail spend optimization for financial services
A global financial services firm partnered with SHI to bring structure to long-tail procurement and renewals. By improving visibility and introducing a more consistent approach to vendor management, they reduced fragmented spend, eased pressure on internal teams, and uncovered cost savings across the portfolio.
Application rationalization for energy
NRG Energy worked with SHI to take control of a complex technology portfolio as part of a broader cost transformation. By aligning contracts, vendors, and technology decisions, they achieved significant cost reduction while improving how decisions were made across the estate.
SaaS optimization for retail
A global retailer turned to SHI to understand the true scale of its SaaS environment. What looked like a well-managed portfolio revealed hidden applications and low usage. With full visibility and targeted optimization, SHI identified over $5.5M in potential savings, bringing ongoing control to SaaS spend.
Manage your portfolio with SHI.one
SHI.one is our digital platform for smarter portfolio management. It gives you the visibility to spot SaaS waste, stay ahead of contracts and renewals, and bring more control to tail and cloud spend — making it easier to reduce waste, lower risk, and act on opportunities faster.
Frequently asked questions
This area focuses on improving visibility, control, and decision-making across the broader technology portfolio, including tail spend, renewals, SaaS, application rationalization, and hardware asset management.
It includes long-tail vendor management, renewals optimization, application rationalization, SaaS optimization, and hardware asset management, all designed to improve lifecycle control and reduce hidden cost and risk.
SaaS environments often grow quickly without clear ownership, leading to duplicated tools, unused licenses, and limited visibility into spend. SaaS optimization helps uncover what’s being used, reduce waste, and bring structure to how applications, access, and renewals are managed.
SaaS environments often grow quickly without clear ownership, leading to duplicated tools, unused licenses, and limited visibility into spend. SaaS optimization helps uncover what’s being used, reduce waste, and bring structure to how applications, access, and renewals are managed.
Application rationalization helps organizations identify overlapping tools, reduce redundancy, simplify the technology estate, and make better decisions about which applications to keep, consolidate, replace, or retire.
Hardware is a major part of the technology estate. Better lifecycle visibility helps organizations improve utilization, support refresh planning, reduce waste, and get more value from hardware investments alongside software and SaaS decisions.
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