Tech stack audit
Grade your whole tech stack in as soon as two weeks.
Olive scores every system you run, and any you are considering, against the leading vendors in its category and a custom build. We set up your first audit, with a grade and a call for each system. After that, it stays live in your account.
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Why it is different
A tech audit without the months of consulting
A traditional tech audit is purely a services engagement: consultants going back and forth with your teams, researching each category by hand and delivering a deck several weeks to a few months later. Olive's audit starts from what Olive already knows, so the service is only your intake and your report.
- Consultants going back and forth with your teams
- Each category researched by hand
- Several weeks to a few months before the findings
- A deck that starts going out of date once delivered
- One intake: your systems, how you use them, past RFPs
- Today's requirements from Olive's database, each system scored
- Your first report in as soon as two weeks
- A live audit in your account, ready to re-run
Why Olive
Built on years of running RFPs
Olive's audit starts from thousands of technology evaluations run through Olive's RFP module and our ongoing vendor research.
Olive RFPs
Requirements written, sent to vendors and scored with stakeholders.
Olive vendor research
Ongoing research on the vendors in each software category.
Your tech stack audit
Your stack, scored against the market and a build
- Efficient. Results in as soon as two weeks, because the requirements, research and scoring already live in the platform.
- More accurate. Every vendor and build scored on the same requirements, and every evaluation checked by an Olive analyst.
- Live, not one-time. Re-run any vendor on the platform subscription, or turn a "replace" into an RFP without starting over.
How it runs
Your first audit in as soon as two weeks
The analysis itself takes about a week. The rest of the time is for your team to complete the intake.
- Step 1
Intake with you
Olive walks through your systems with you: what each one does, how your teams use it, when it renews and what it costs. Share any past RFPs, and add any system you are thinking about buying.
- Step 2
Olive runs your stack
Olive builds up-to-date requirements for each type of software, starting from your past RFP criteria where you have them, and scores your vendor against the recommended alternatives and a custom build.
- Step 3
Your tailored report
A grade for every system and the stack, a call on each one, and the moves for your board, walked through with you. Then the audit stays live in your account.
Buy or build
Every system weighed against building it
Building software got easier. Judging whether to build did not. Where building is realistic, the audit scores a custom build on the same requirements as the vendors, along with a third option: a vendor that covers most of what you need, with the rest built.
- Fit
- How much of what you need does each option cover?
- Cost over time
- The subscription, against the build and what it takes to keep it running.
- Time to value
- When each option is in use, not when it is signed.
- Upkeep
- Who maintains it, and what happens when that person leaves.
- Risk
- What you depend on, and what it costs to change course.
Build with Olive, or with anyone
Olive has custom development resources. If the analysis says build, start it with Olive and use your $3,000 build credit, or take the analysis to your own developers.
What's included
$5,000 for up to 20 systems
Count your active systems and any you are considering for a new evaluation. Scoped pricing for anything beyond 20 systems.
- Up to 20 systems
- Active systems for a grade, and new systems you are evaluating.
- Buy vs. build baseline
- Every system baselined against a custom build alternative, not only against other vendors.
- Tailored report
- The stack grade, a grade and call for each system, and the moves for your board.
- Your team in Olive
- A team account for 90 days, with the live audit and every evaluation behind it.
- $3,000 build credit
- Toward custom development with Olive.*
* On custom development of $10,000 or more with Olive, signed within 60 days of the report. On a $10,000 build, that is 30% off.
Questions
How the audit compares with the alternatives
Is this a security audit?
No. It reviews your business applications: how well each one fits your needs, what it costs, when it renews and what the alternatives are. It is not a security or penetration test, a compliance audit such as SOC 2, PCI or HIPAA, or a review of your network and infrastructure. It is also not the free IT assessment a managed service provider offers to win a support contract: Olive doesn't sell IT support, and the report belongs to you.
How is it different from hiring a consultancy?
Large firms sell this as an application portfolio assessment or application rationalization. It is scoped as a services engagement of several weeks to a few months, built on interviews and workshops, and it ends in a deck. Olive's research and scoring already run in its platform, so the service is only your intake and your report: a fixed price, as soon as two weeks, and an audit that stays live afterward instead of a deck that ages.
How is it different from an analyst subscription?
An analyst seat gives you research on categories and vendors in general. It says nothing about your own systems, and your team still has to apply it to every contract. The audit applies the research for you: each of your systems, scored on your requirements, against the market and a build.
We already use a SaaS management tool. Do we need this?
They do different jobs. SaaS management tools read your sign-in and finance data to track licenses, usage, spend and renewal dates. They don't score how well a system fits your requirements, what the alternatives are, or whether to build. Used together, one tells you what you pay for and use; the audit tells you whether it is still the right system.
Could a fractional CIO or our own team do this?
Yes, by hand: requirements for every type of software, research on each market, a score for every vendor and a build, then a report. That is weeks of senior time, usually billed by the hour or the month, and it is out of date at the next renewal. An advisor or your own team can also run the audit in Olive and keep it live.
Does the audit include feedback from our teams?
Not by default. The audit is built from the details you share with Olive, not from a full evaluation with every team. If you want to go further, surveys in the platform collect your teams' feedback on any system, and any system can become a full evaluation or an RFP.
What happens after the report?
The audit stays live. Your stack, your requirements and every evaluation stay in your Olive account, and on a platform subscription you can re-run any vendor when it comes up for renewal or when you consider a change.
Start here
Start with a short discovery call
Tell us what you run and what is coming up for renewal. We'll tell you what your first audit would cover.