Three workstreams, one portfolio-wide spend review, 39% down.
39%
Overall spend reduction
$2.9M/yr
Combined 1-year annualized savings
100%
Of savings kept by the client, no fees
The situation
A PE portfolio-wide IT and telecom spend review brought Resourcive into a global information services company mid-way through a post-TSA carve-out, with $7,434,580 a year in in-scope spend and three distinct opportunities to chase at once.
Why this was hard without help
Carve-out environments inherit complexity faster than they resolve it: a global voice estate still running on legacy on-prem systems, a colocation contract due for renewal, and a China network built on a legacy MPLS link that no longer matched the business's actual usage pattern. No single internal team owned all three.
What Resourcive brought
Three projects ran in parallel:
- Global voice transformation: Moved 23,000+ users onto Teams with multi-direct-routing partners, saving $102K/month.
- Colocation renewal: Captured 16% savings through a paper change alone, plus a PUE commitment reduction worth up to $25K/month, totaling $49K/month.
- China network redesign: Replaced an AT&T MPLS link with a point-to-point connection to a Hong Kong data center, cutting China connectivity costs 86%, worth $85K/month.
"From the DR facility to the colo negotiation to the China strategy, this is the clearest example of persistent value creation across our portfolio."
Results
Documented outcomes
- 39% overall spend reduction, $2.9M in combined 1-year annualized savings.
- Voice transformation alone: $102K/month across 23,000+ users.
- Colocation renewal: 16% savings via a paper change, plus a PUE-driven reduction.
- China network:an 86% cut to connectivity costs via a redesigned path to Hong Kong.
- The client keeps 100% of the savings identified; no fees on this engagement type.
What came next
This same client's voice workstream became its own standalone case study (Microsoft Teams Enterprise Enablement), and the relationship has continued across multiple additional workstreams since.
