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An IT budget without pain: where the money leaks and how to stop it

Typical IT budget leaks in mid-size business: duplicate licenses, zombie servers, contractors without SLAs. A one-week audit checklist.

Mid-size businesses waste 20–30% of their IT budget — not an exaggeration but what we regularly find in audits. Typical leaks: licenses for software nobody uses; zombie servers and cloud resources left over from old projects; several contractors doing overlapping work; support without an SLA where every change is priced from scratch.

The audit takes a week: an inventory of licenses and infrastructure, a map of contractor agreements, a reconciliation of spending against actual usage. The result is a cost-reduction plan without quality loss that usually pays for the audit itself within the first month.

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