Information & Communications Technology

AFM Solutions have been in IT since 1983

Initially we advised on Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PCs and servers for corporate clients. Most recently, we have specialised in structuring funding for managed services desktop, hosted telephony and SaaS.

We can create licences around service provider IPR and enable a deferred charge so that you can pay over time for systems development.

We can offer guidance in relation to Finance and Operating Leases and how cash flow can be pushed through the supply chain facilitating payment to suppliers in line with stage completions.

We also show how the most critical and costly aspects of technology may be funded: the people, the integration and the software costs.

In the managed services industry, service providers have maximised their skills in the technology but, along with this, they have assumed the financial risk in the form of both balance sheet gearing and counterparty credit risk. Notwithstanding these financial risks, there is significant value in the service provider offering deferred terms to its customer and, along with the various other technology deliverables, managing the funding within its managed services contract.

Working with the managed services industry, AFM solutions help manage the many VAT, Tax and legal aspects of ICT service provision – and we have an innate understanding of both the commercial sensitivities of winning projects and the complexity of operational issues.