Key points
- Usage vs entitlement, publisher by publisher
- Vendor metrics: per user, per CPU, per server
- Shelfware, over-use, and renewal forecast
- Audit-ready ELP, inventory, and evidence files
Start with usage versus entitlement
An Insightful License Review for enterprise license position work checks whether software is used inside the licenses you already bought. That is the only way to see over-licensing, under-licensing, and audit exposure before a vendor arrives.
- Compare deployments and users to purchased entitlements
- Read each publisher’s metric — user, server, CPU, or cloud
- Prepare usage evidence from SAM tools where they exist
- List gaps that would fail a true-up or audit
Workstreams in one review
Sampro runs the review as six named streams so the board pack is complete, not a single spreadsheet.
- Compliance assessment — usage, metrics, and gap list
- Cost optimisation — right-sizing, shelfware, volume discounts
- Risk — audit exposure, end-of-life products, over-use
- Cloud and scale — BYOL, subscription, virtualisation
- Vendor management — contract terms and negotiation pack
- Audit-ready reports — inventory, entitlements, ELP, evidence
How the Pune team closes an ELP
The path is the same for Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and SAP estates we already review from Hinjewadi.
- Discover publishers, contracts, and tools in use
- Inventory deployments, users, and cloud usage
- Position usage against entitlements and metrics
- Optimise shelfware, over-use, and savings
- Report ELP, risk, and renewal packs
- Defend the numbers at true-up
