Our licence optimization services
Negociation
License renewal strategy (MPSA, EA, SCE, ECS, OMA, ULA, ELA, EPP…). Vendor Management. Definition and SWOT analysis of purchasing scenarios.
Contract Governance
Oversight of licensing agreements and the license asset life cycle. SAM/ITAM process optimization. License asset management. Licensing training. Contract support services (Microsoft True-Up, Oracle ULA Termination)
Audit support services
Counter-audits, negotiation and legal support services to optimize the outcome of a given audit scenario.
Mock Audits
Provide an internal assessment of your financial exposure in the event of non-compliance along with remediation strategies. For organizations looking to audit and assess the status of their licensing across their IT infrastructure.
Highlighting the risks of software licence non-compliance
Cette estimation du coût d'un audit licences habituellement constaté (exposition financière type Microsoft, Oracle, IBM) est rapporté au nombre de postes de travail.
C'est ainsi l'enveloppe budgétaire communément réclamée par les auditeurs, en fonction des sources multiples des écarts constatés. Quelque soit la taille de l'organisation.
La mise en oeuvre de processus d'audit interne (audits "à blanc") permettent d'anticiper et d'optimiser la mitigation du risque dans les domaines suivants : data management, contract management, lienses estate consolidation, mitigation strategy, SAM & ITAM process optimization
Case Studies
Licensing Blog
“Password Portfolio” ? Yet another password safebox solution ?
This password safebox application has been developped to meet most of our internal and customers needs for sharing sensitive information. These needs include the following prerequisites : strong double EAS265 encryption+hashing local storage only (defined passwords can be synchronized on demand to defined counterpart users, in such case the passwords will still be stored locally[…]
Understanding Oracle’s ULA
As Fiscal Year 2015 drew to a close for Oracle on 30 May last year, those enrolling in the company’s annual Partner Kick-Off on 25 June were given a clear hint at the vendor’s sales strategy for Fiscal Year 2016. There is an unsurprising focus on gaining new market share (applications, Oracle Cloud etc.) while[…]