Set up in 2010 using the Gartner top 10 CIO wish list as a foundation for our products and services. Audent was built using investment to bring together 10 separate, specialist companies under one combined consortium banner. The business model is totally unique adopting a virtual project team structure utilising over 600 resources when required. Each company is contractually bound to work within the rules of the consortium and also key members of staff from each company take a formal role on the Audent board.
Every project is assigned a virtual team to meet expertise requirements and Audent takes on the role of co-ordination with the client, just like a hypervisor. This diverse range of skills and expertise is available on demand for all of our clients just like a virtual server only active when resources are needed. The costs associated with staffing and office space are reduced massively. Our model also makes us extremely agile.
Commercially we do not add margin on top of margin, we agree prices that are discounted with all of the consortium members. Very often we are able to get greater discounts when compared to working directly with suppliers.
“What we like about Audent is the sheer number of products available and the fact that the consortium members are accredited in so many of the leading vendors that we use. This has helped us reduce the number of suppliers we have by about 20. We notice that Audent are faster to react than our old IT partners and care about our business.”
“Audent provide committed customer focus across a wide range of services, effective channel and vendor relationships. Audent takes complexity out of today’s ever increasing licensing challenges.”
“Audent is a preferred supplier to NEC Europe. Audent’s consortium approach co-ordinates industry experts and multiple technologies into systems that are right for NEC’s business. Their pre-sales expertise gets the right technology in place and they have enabled us to consolidate our suppliers. We see the account team from Audent as part of the NEC team.”