Key points
- One-time ELP vs SAM as a managed service
- Publisher specialists without extra headcount
- Daily inventory, monthly ELP, vendor questions
- Remediation that actually moves unused licenses
Why a single report is not a SAM programme
Some organisations need a rapid effective license position for an upcoming true-up or audit defence. Others want SAM as a managed service — a standing way to control licensing risk and cost. Both used to depend on manual work, and the ELP started ageing the moment it was delivered.
- Point-in-time ELP for a true-up or audit window
- Managed SAM for ongoing risk and cost control
- Manual processes make the first report go stale
- A live desk keeps inventory, ELP, and vendor cover current
What Sampro runs on the desk
You can keep your team and borrow ours, or hand the desk to Pune. The work is the same: publishers, tools, and a monthly position.
- Publisher experts for Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, and SAP
- Team reinforcement for peak true-up or one-off projects
- Outsourced SAM — license desk, cloud assets, contract ops
- Compliance view publisher by publisher
- Remediation: retire shelfware, re-allocate, prove the save
- One programme across many publishers and tools
How we embed
We score the current desk, place specialists, then leave a cadence you can keep.
- Assess the SAM desk and residual risk
- Scope experts, a project, or full outsourcing
- Staff against publishers and tools
- Operate inventory, ELP, and vendor questions
- Close findings that still cost money
- Sustain with monthly KPIs and knowledge transfer
