Budget Forecasting

Because Nothing Screams ‘Strategy’ Like a Last-Minute PO

Let’s be honest: most IT budgets are less “strategic roadmap” and more “educated panic.” Renewals appear out of nowhere, end-of-support deadlines sneak past quietly, and somehow that ancient firewall still hasn’t been replaced—because no one planned for it, but it just keeps hanging on.

Our Budget Forecasting service turns all the data we’ve gathered—assets, contracts, lifecycles, support terms—into something radical: a plan.

We give you:

• Renewal schedules you can actually see coming

• Advance warning on end-of-support (and end-of-life) assets—before the vendor shuts off the patches

• Options at every turning point: refresh, extend, repurpose, TPM it, or gracefully let it die

• Quotes and ballparks: support renewals, hardware replacements, and when needed, escape plans

• Long-range traps to avoid—like renewing gear that’s about to go obsolete, stacking multi-year deals right before a platform sunset, or buying “discounted” hardware that costs triple to support

• The unofficial industry playbook: what’s negotiable, what’s bundled, and what’s pure vendor theatre

This isn’t spreadsheet wizardry. It’s practical planning based on actual risk, cost, and timing—not marketing slides, not vendor push, and definitely not “whatever we did last year.”

Because the best time to find out your renewal doubled is not the day it’s due. And the best time to replace unsupported infrastructure is before it becomes Exhibit A in a post-incident review.