Stop overpaying for licenses.
Stop fearing the audit.
Enterprise software vendors bank on you not knowing your own license position. We reconcile entitlements against real usage, defend you in vendor audits, and negotiate renewals with benchmark data — cutting license spend20-30% while eliminating compliance risk.
The full offering
Six services, one engagement. Start with an assessment, or bring us in mid-audit — every piece works standalone or as a managed program.
License Position Assessment
A full Effective License Position (ELP) across your estate — entitlements, deployments, and usage reconciled so you know exactly where you stand before a vendor does.
Audit Defense
When Oracle, SAP, IBM, or Microsoft come knocking, we manage the entire engagement — scoping, data room control, findings rebuttal, and settlement negotiation.
Contract & Renewal Negotiation
Benchmark-backed negotiation of ULAs, ELAs, and support renewals. We know what other enterprises pay — and we use it to reset your baseline.
Compliance Remediation
Close compliance gaps before they become audit findings — re-harvest unused licenses, fix virtualization licensing (vSphere, LPAR, OVM), and right-size editions.
SAM Tooling & Managed Service
Ongoing software asset management as a service — continuous discovery, usage tracking, and quarterly license position reporting without hiring a SAM team.
Third-Party Support Transition
Planning to move Oracle or SAP to third-party support? We verify your license position first so you exit cleanly — with archives, entitlements, and audit exposure locked down.
Vendor programs we cover
License compliance is vendor-specific. Our specialists work the metrics, contracts, and audit playbooks of each major publisher.
How an engagement works
From first data pull to a defended, optimized license estate.
Discovery & Baseline
We inventory deployments and gather entitlements — contracts, POs, and order documents — to build your effective license position. Typically 2-4 weeks.
Risk & Savings Analysis
Every gap is quantified two ways: audit exposure if a vendor finds it, and savings available if you fix it. You get a prioritized action plan.
Remediate & Negotiate
We execute the plan — re-harvesting, re-architecting, and renegotiating contracts — with your team or on your behalf.
Continuous Compliance
Quarterly license position reviews keep you audit-ready and stop shelfware from creeping back in.
Common questions
We've received an audit letter. Is it too late to engage you?
No — audit defense is most of what we do. Engage us before you respond to the vendor: how the audit is scoped and what data you hand over largely determines the outcome. We take over communications, control the data room, and negotiate findings before they become invoices.
How is this different from a SAM tool?
Tools count deployments; they don't interpret contracts, rebut audit findings, or negotiate renewals. We combine tooling with licensing specialists who have sat on both sides of vendor audits — the analysis and the fight, not just the data.
Does moving to third-party support increase audit risk?
Leaving OEM support is fully legal, but vendors do sometimes audit departing customers. That's why we verify and document your license position before you transition — so if an audit comes, you're already clean and the paper trail proves it.
What does an engagement cost?
Assessments are fixed-fee and scoped to your estate. Audit defense and negotiation work is typically priced against the exposure or savings involved — most clients recover several multiples of the fee. Request a quote and we'll scope it within 24 hours.
Get a quote for license & compliance management
Tell us which vendors you're licensed with and what's driving the request — an upcoming renewal, an audit letter, or a cost-cutting mandate. A licensing specialist will scope the engagement and respond within 24 hours.
Confidential by default
License positions are sensitive. Every engagement runs under NDA and your data never reaches a vendor without your sign-off.
Fast-track for active audits
Received an audit letter? Mention it in the details and we'll prioritize your request the same business day.
Savings-backed pricing
Most engagements are priced against the exposure removed or savings delivered — the work pays for itself.