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The first platform for IT sourcing decisions & planning. Supplier-neutral analysis across 350+ suppliers, 80 countries, 315 variables. 99%+ deal success rate. 23.8% average savings.
PracticeEnterprise IT advisory - data center, cloud, telecom, and network infrastructure sourcing, supplier negotiation, and SPY Index benchmarking.
PageQuick first-touch application (no uploads, ~2-3 minutes) for peptide supply and manufacturing partners who want to become a RampRate supplier. Suppliers we want to pursue get a longer due-diligence follow-up.
The world is in the midst of a statistical revolution. Everything from professional sports to advertising to education to technology performance to climate can be measured and quantified with more precision than ever before. Statisticians and big data analysts are in demand and finally being..
December 5, 2018
Happy Holidays from RampRate! During this season, we take time to reflect upon the good things we have…like our partnership with you. We appreciate working with you and hope the coming year will bring you much happiness and success. Hot Sauce, is What I Got If you want to make it cool, you’ll have to sing… Read More »Hot sauce, is what I got, just remember that Sourcing, is what I got..
January 7, 2018
CIO Vacancy: Must Bring Own Crystal Ball Build Shared Services: If a time machine that takes you back a year is invented, the most profitable use is probably gambling – Leicester City at 5000-1, some powerball tickets, etc. But selling it to CIOs planning shared services IT budgets could be a close second. Each year,… Read More »Build Your Shared Services
June 22, 2016
The 5 Disciplines – Compute & The Human Operating System circa 2020 Human Operating System – We’re making everything smarter – from our data centers to our watches. But this wonderful technology is and misused in myriads of unpredictable ways. On the one end of the spectrum, there are CIOs with access to the type… Read More »Human Operating System
December 13, 2015
Russian Data Center & Cloud Market Update – Addressing Russia’s Data Sovereignty Laws ARE YOU IN COMPLIANCE WITH GLOBAL DATA SOVEREIGNTY LAWS? RUSSIA, TURKEY & OTHERS? If you’re providing services to people in Russia, store some personal data, and are not an airline, you have until September 1, 2015 to move that data to a… Read More »Deadline for Russia’s Data Localization Law
August 25, 2015
Cloud Migration Strategy: SPY INDEX Call it app modernization as-a-service. For many enterprises it is their “last mile” to the cloud: How to assess and measure the business impact of migrating legacy, e.g., non-virtualized, distributed applications to one or more cloud deployment options. In a previous post, Bulletproof Your Core App Migration to the Cloud: An Essential Readiness… Read More »Core App Migration to Cloud: Solving the App Modernization Use Case
June 29, 2015
A Familiar Tale I recently heard a familiar tale from the CIO of a Fortune company: “We don’t have a repeatable or accurate cost allocation model that can be used to reflect the true cost of computing services consumption back to our lines of business. Quantifying a workload’s owner/size/scope and forecasting the growth profile and… Read More »CIOs: Eliminate Waste—Let 2015 Be Your Year of the Smart Cloud
January 18, 2015
IT services Re-posted from the Year 2000 “Money is the opposite of the weather. Nobody talks about it, but everybody does something about it.” – Rebecca Johnson In 1996, I recognized a problem in the way IT services were bought and sold. The sales process wasn’t set up to solve a customer’s problems. Instead, it… Read More »Making IT Fit Like a Good Shoe, or, 10 Years Later, and RampRate Has a Long Way to Go!
October 25, 2014
IT budget optimization You’ve armed yourself with the latest IT “power tools” – ITSM, e.g., ServiceNow, ITBM, e.g., Apptio – and are starting to get real traction. Better business user satisfaction, better cost transparency. All good. So what’s the next act? How can you harness these great tools to ring the cash register in 2016 and accelerate funding of… Read More »Attention CIOs: A 2016 Budget Upside Surprise Awaits You
October 3, 2014
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CIOs constantly wrestle with five common infrastructure sourcing problems and finding the solutions is no easy task. IT Infrastructure Sourcing. This is complex stuff. It’s difficult to find and decipher the most meaningful data and transform it into useful data. In a mission to assemble real-world transaction data, we’ve created a proprietary data repository that… Read More »What’s Wrong with IT Infrastructure Sourcing [Infographic]?
September 29, 2014
Migrating Applications to the Cloud You want to migrate legacy applications to the cloud, right? To meet the needs of your enterprise, it’s become an imperative. It might sound simple, but you’ve discovered it’s not. Let’s take a look at the keys you need to consider before you pull the trigger. If only application migration… Read More »The Keys to Making Smart Decisions About Migrating Applications to the Cloud
September 29, 2014
Digital Service Efficiency Though it’s well understood you can’t manage what you don’t measure, the vast majority of enterprises don’t track the energy efficiency of their IT operations. Firms spend tens of millions of dollars on data centers and energy usage, but seldom explore meaningful ways to manage this energy spend. It gets shrugged off… Read More »eBay Measures Energy Consumption with Digital Service Efficiency
September 7, 2014
Managed Services RFP Managed Services RFP Harm Suppliers and Buyers Alike As a seller of IT managed services, you may spend hundreds of hours on a quote only to find that you really had no chance because the game was rigged. It can be obvious and heavy handed: The RFP ignores your strengths, but itemizes your competitor’s… Read More »Avoiding The Rigged Managed Services RFP
March 3, 2014
CSRHub Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Scores Will Drive Triple Bottom Line in IT, Data-Center Supplier Choice SANTA MONICA, CALIF. May 16, 2012 – RampRate Sourcing Advisors, the premier sourcing advisor for IT infrastructure and cloud computing, has integrated CSRHub’s corporate-social-responsibility scores into its proprietary SPY Index decision hub, enriching it so that IT decision makers… Read More »CSRHub Scores Join RampRate’s SPY Index
May 15, 2012
IT services transparency SANTA MONICA, Calif.─Nov. 16, 2010─ Because Fortune 1000 and Internet firms often spend millions of dollars on top-rated premium technology and telecommunications services only to find them failing and derailing success, RampRate announced today its Deal Acceleration and Transparency Engine (DATE), which cuts cost, time, and risk from the buying process. “This new… Read More »New DATE from RampRate- IT services transparency
November 16, 2010
IT Outsourcing Risk In fairness to sellers of IT services, large buyers are not averse to a few power plays of their own and sometimes steamroll smaller or independent providers with onerous contract clauses. One of the most costly (if rare) provisions in relationships where the balance is tipped to the buyer is consequential damages… Read More »IT Outsourcing Risk – Consequential Damages
February 25, 2010
Green Grid Virtualization Whitepaper In the recent Green Grid White Paper, “Impact of Virtualization on Data Center Physical Infrastructure“, there’s an interesting discussion about the impact of virtualization on data center density, capacity, and power waste. However, most of the findings apply to in-house environments where the same entity that virtualizes has to deal with… Read More »Perspectives on Green Grid Virtualization Whitepaper
February 10, 2010
Data Center supplier Playbook Few if any data centers would admit to making money on power. For one thing, it’s something that could get them in legal trouble depending on the jurisdiction. However, throughout the US, co-location facilities are taking sizeable margins on power by buying on a usage basis and selling on a capacity… Read More »Data Center supplier Playbook: Capacity-Based Power
January 29, 2010