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Enhance enterprise value creation

Technology Value Creation

Unlock your technology edge

Multiply investment performance by optimising technology cost and embedding engineering discipline that drives sustainable topline growth. With deal margins tight, Technology Value Creation strengthens technology foundations and scales team capability to drive EBITDA gains and faster, more reliable delivery.

Technology-charged value creation

Technology has become one of the most powerful levers of enterprise value in PE-backed businesses. But in most portfolio companies, cloud costs, technical debt and complexity are growing faster than revenue. This reduces margins, slows growth and compresses exit returns.

Most organisations respond with optimisations that focus solely on reducing the cost of technology through right-sizing, pricing negotiation and long term capacity commitments. But this misses the point. While these actions can deliver quick wins, they rarely address deeper structural inefficiencies.

A multi-dimensional view of value creation

At Capacitas, Technology Value Creation goes beyond surface-level optimisation. We identify and remediate structural inefficiencies across teams, architecture, applications and product delivery. By embedding engineering discipline, improving delivery efficiency and optimising technology operations at source, we help portfolio companies decouple technology spend from growth.

In many cases, this delivers up to 4x the optimisation impact of traditional cost-focused approaches, multiplying the value of the investment, as well as the efficiency of your technology function.<

27%

Subscriber growth (with no additional cloud investment) and €6m annual savings

— Silver Lake-backed Cegid

$2.7m

Cloud cost reduction delivered

— Cinven-backed Jaggaer

30%

Annual usage growth, with no increase in cloud cost

— Silver Lake-backed Qualtrics

Edge unlocked

Eliminate waste. Maximise ROITackle inefficiency at source to eliminate technology spend that does not support growth or value creation. Significant savings are delivered within 4 weeks and the vast majority of optimisations within 6 months.
Optimised for exitBuild a scalable, well-governed technology estate that increases buyer confidence and multiples valuation.
Compounding value creationEmbed the engineering standards and ways of working required to sustain performance, so improvements continue to compound over time.

THE TECHNOLOGY EDGE: A MULTI-DIMENSIONAL APPROACH TO VALUE CREATION THAT MULTIPLIES ENTERPRISE VALUE IN THE FACE OF A TECHNOLOGY-DRIVEN TSUNAMI OF CHANGE.

Our clients
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Cove-Hill (1)
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A three-stage model

1. Discover

Identify where value is being lost
We expose structural inefficiencies, constraints and capability gaps to establish a clear view of cost and technical maturity.

2. Realise
Prioritise value creation opportunities
Focus on opportunities that most materially move investment performance – EBITDA, delivery speed and risk reduction, as well as delivering quick wins.

3. Transform

Execute targeted performance improvements and embed capability
Implement focused interventions across architecture, engineering and operating models to remove cost, increase delivery speed and improve stability while embedding operating discipline and engineering standards across portfolio company processes

Amplify your investment outcomes

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Decouple rising technology spend and revenue growth 

By addressing structural inefficiencies across teams, architecture, applications and product delivery, we reduce waste, eliminate technical debt, improve engineering efficiency and deliver sustained margin improvement.

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Accelerate delivery speed and competitiveness

Increase engineering productivity and release velocity so the business executes its investment strategy faster and more responsively. Without increasing operational risk. 

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Remove constraints to growth and scalability

Identify and remediate the architecture bottlenecks and legacy complexity, creating the headroom to grow without performance degradation or spiralling costs. 

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Build a self-improving technology organisation

Embed operating discipline, engineering standards and ways of working that sustain performance improvements and increase exit value over time.

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Designed for PE-backed businesses 

Most technology services are retrofitted for private equity. Technology Value Creation is designed from the ground up for PE timescales, deal dynamics and value creation objectives.

Capacitas has a uniquely analytical approach to modelling both cloud and Capex based infrastructure provision. Their thoughtful and actionable insights unlock both spend and performance-based interventions for global scale services.

Mark Gillet

Managing Director, Silver Lake

Silver Lake (the investors) provided me with confidence that the audit findings were accurate based on previous experiences with Capacitas. My teams embarked on an ambitious 1-year programme to start delivering the recommended optimisations.

Andre Brunetiere

CTO & CPO at Cegid

Capacitas worked with us to identify immediate spend reduction opportunities and a long-term direction to scale efficiently but at the same time delivering an amazing experience for both our users and our team members.

Jeff Cates

CEO at Achievers

FAQs

What is Technology Value Creation?

Our Technology Value Creation service focuses on increasing enterprise value in PE-backed businesses by cutting technology costs and accelerating delivery capability.

How is this different from traditional technology transformation?

Drawing on our work over more than 20 years in performance and cost optimisation, we developed Technology Value Creation explicitly for PE timeframes and investment outcomes. It combines cost, performance, and engineering capability into a single service that directly drives EBITDA, growth and valuation. 
Unlike traditional transformation programmes that treat cost, performance and scalability in isolation, with Technology Value Creation, we address them together – alongside building your team’s capability – to unlock compounding value. This integrated approach is what enables up to 4x greater optimisation impact when compared to conventional methods. 

How do you ensure improvements are sustained?

Our service extends beyond a report listing our recommendations. We work with portco teams to embed engineering standards, capabilities and governance into the organisation’s people and processes. The outcome is embedded knowledge and ways of working that deliver compounding value throughout the full investment lifecycle.

What kind of value impact can we expect?

We focus on changes that are measurable in financial or operational terms. Results vary depending on baseline maturity, but common results include:
  • EBITDA improvement through technology cost reduction e.g. removing cloud waste, legacy run-cost and structural inefficiencies. 
  • Faster time-to-market through streamlined delivery cycles, higher throughput, and increased release velocity. 
  • Reduced cost-to-serve due to simplified architecture and lower ongoing support and maintenance overhead. 
  • Improved system stability, leading to fewer production incidents and higher system reliability.
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