Xolani Dube

5/12/2025 · Financial Services

License Compression Saves R3.4M in 60 Days

Client: Tier-1 Retail BankBaseline: 84 bots across 3 vendors with 37% idle timePayback: < 2 months

Outcomes

  • Consolidated orchestrations down to 42 licenses
  • Realised R3.4M annualised savings
  • Achieved 0 downtime during migration

We ran a blended discovery sprint combining log capture, capacity modelling, and scenario planning. The result was a consolidation plan that the CoE could execute without interrupting critical processes.

Key enablers included dynamic queue shaping, a hardened exception channel, and a unified observability stack that surfaced licence drift within minutes.

Telemetry & dashboards
Exception router playbooks
LLM guardrails
Ops enablement
Compliance-first delivery
Automation ROI models

If you can envision it, we can design and ship it.

Share your automation backlog or operating challenge and let’s map the first sprint.

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