Software Licence Reconciliation & Optimisation
Identify and Mitigate Risk | Optimise Licence Usage
Few organisations have complete visibility of their Microsoft licensing position. Without a clear understanding of licence entitlements, software usage and licensing requirements, it can be difficult to determine whether your organisation is compliant, optimally licensed or investing in unnecessary software licences.
Our Microsoft Software Licence Reconciliation & Optimisation service helps organisations understand their current licensing position, identify compliance risks and optimisation opportunities, and make informed licensing decisions with confidence.
Key Outcomes
This service helps organisations to:
- Understand their Microsoft licensing position.
- Identify and mitigate compliance risks.
- Uncover opportunities to optimise software licensing expenditure.
- Eliminate unnecessary licence purchases.
- Improve software asset management and licensing governance.
- Support future procurement and licensing decisions with confidence.
- Develop a better understanding of Microsoft licensing and the licence terms that apply to their software usage.
- Gain independent assurance of their licensing position.
Service Description
Service Overview
Understanding your Microsoft licensing position requires more than simply comparing software deployments against purchase records. It requires a detailed understanding of Microsoft's licensing rules, entitlement models, contractual rights and the impact of IT architectures, virtualisation and cloud services on licensing requirements.
Through our Software Licence Reconciliation & Optimisation service, Discover SAM performs a comprehensive assessment of your Microsoft licensing environment, including your software deployments, licence entitlements, technology architecture, virtualisation technologies, cloud services usage and applicable licensing rights. This analysis enables us to determine your effective licence position on a product-by-product basis and identify opportunities to mitigate risk and optimise licensing investments.
The result is a clear understanding of your current licensing position, supported by practical recommendations to mitigate risk, optimise expenditure and improve ongoing licensing practices.
Proactively Mitigate Compliance Risk
Identify compliance gaps and gain a clearer understanding of the Microsoft licence terms that apply to your software usage and technology environment.
Optimisation Licence Usage
Ensure software licences are appropriately assigned and utilised across your on-premises, cloud and hybrid environments.
Reduce Unnecessary Expenditure
Identify opportunities to eliminate software licensing costs associated with unused, underutilised or incorrectly licensed software.
Make Informed Purchasing Decisions
Support future purchasing, renewal and technology decisions with accurate and reliable licensing information.
Gain Confidence and Peace of Mind
Understand your effective licence position and gain confidence that your organisation is appropriately licensed and optimising its Microsoft investments.
Build In-House Licensing Expertise
Develop a stronger understanding of the Microsoft licence terms that apply to your technology environment and software usage.
Deliverable Reports
Effective Licence Position (ELP) Report
The Effective Licence Position (ELP) Report provides a detailed assessment of your Microsoft licensing position, identifying licence excesses, deficiencies, compliance risks and optimisation opportunities. It forms the foundation for informed licensing and remediation decisions.
It includes:
Licences Excesses & Deficiencies
A detailed analysis of licence entitlements, software deployments, licence requirements and the resulting effective licence position, including identification of any licence excesses or deficiencies.
Remediation Options Through Licence Acquisition
Where deficiencies are identified, the report outlines purchasing options and licensing strategies available to address compliance requirements.
Remediation Options Without Additional Licence Spend
Where appropriate, the report identifies opportunities to achieve compliance through non-procurement activities such as software removal, workload consolidation, licence reallocation, software reconfiguration or architectural changes.