Lifecycle Services

Your IT Stack Is Complex. Managing It Shouldn't Be.

We Turn Post‑Purchase Pain Into Lifecycle Value.

80% of organizations say outdated and inadequate technology is holding them back.

So, you dive into digital transformation. Adding a new app here and a new platform there, cobbling together a system that’s supposed to make your work easier and drive innovation. But each new subscription and vendor adds complexity. The problem isn’t the technology itself. It’s what happens after it lands in your environment.

The Problem

More Tech Shouldn’t Mean More Problems

Your team wasn’t built to be contract managers or licensing auditors. Yet they’re stuck stitching together subscription timelines, vendor terms, and hardware support windows, often across dozens of systems.

Obscure Renewal Quotes

Renewal quotes arrive late, with vague terms and sudden price jumps

Scattered License Management

Licenses and subscriptions are spread out across contracts, tools, and departments

Manual Asset Tracking Risk

Asset tracking is manual and risky, leaving you exposed to audits or support gaps

Unmanaged EAs Underperform

Enterprise Agreements (EAs) sound great, but without management, they underdeliver

The Result

Wasted spend, mounting risk, and no clear path forward.

Lifecycle management simplifies, optimizes, and aligns your tech stack so it works for you from day 1 to retirement.

Turn Technology Inventory Into Strategic Insight

Modern lifecycle management centralizes contracts, assets, licenses, and support data. It ensures technology investments are aligned with business goals and deliver maximum value.

Software Lifecycle Management

Application Rationalization

Determine which technologies to upgrade, consolidate, repurpose, or retire based on actual usage and business value.

Enterprise Agreement Management

Gain clear oversight of Cisco Enterprise Agreement licensing, entitlements, and renewals. Simplify fragmented subscriptions into a single, multi‑year agreement that’s easier to manage and more cost‑effective.

True Forward & Usage Monitoring

Stay ahead of overages and entitlement shifts by monitoring consumption trends and forecasting growth.

Renewal Roadmapping

Centralize contract dates and support timelines. Know what’s coming, what’s changing, and what needs to be renegotiated.

Hardware Lifecycle Management

Hardware Lifecycle Planning

Track asset age, warranty status, LDOS (Last Date of Support), and support coverage to avoid risk and build proactive refresh plans.

Asset Visibility & Reporting

With Digital Customer Consent, ANM securely accesses licensing portals, usage data, and telemetry across your environment, giving you a real-time, vendor-verified source of truth.

Lifecycle management is complex. We make it feel simple.

ANM’s Lifecycle and Adoption Program follows a repeatable, outcome-aligned framework designed to maximize return on technology investments, without the chaos of fragmented tools, contracts, and teams.

Our process gives you control at every stage, across both hardware and software.

Identify

Surface risk, uncover redundancy, and understand where your environment stands today.

Identify

Build a lifecycle roadmap aligned to your business goals across contracts, platforms, and timelines.

Onboard

Centralize contracts, assets, and entitlements for full-stack visibility.

Activate

Ensure entitlements, licenses, and services are properly provisioned and mapped to your environment.

Adopt

Track platform adoption, close training gaps, and drive ROI through usage reviews.

Optimize

Monitor usage and spend, reduce waste, and eliminate surprises like True Forward overages.

Optimize

Monitor usage and spend, reduce waste, and eliminate surprises like True Forward overages.

Plan, Adopt, and Scale With Confidence 

ANM helps you unlock the full strategic value of every contract, license, and entitlement across your stack.

With over 30 years of experience, a world-class engineering bench, and gold-standard partnerships, we deliver deep, consistent support from experts who understand your technology and your business.

Maximize Your Cisco Investment

Turn technology goals into real business outcomes with ANM’s Cisco Lifecycle Services.

Accelerate IT initiatives

Align with your Strategy

Maximize ROI

Maximize your Cisco Stack

Track KPIs

Show Measurable Progress

Executive Confidence

Build confidence with outcome-driven results

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Get Started

We’ll show you what’s active, what’s redundant, and what’s costing you more than it should.

→ Talk to a Lifecycle Manager to learn where you stand today, and what’s possible with a smarter lifecycle strategy.