License Management for Greater Transparency, Cost Efficiency and Security

Customer: Porsche Informatik

Branch: Automobile wholesale and retail business

Services: SAM baseline project on licensing plausibility

Porsche Informatik has a large base of installed Microsoft licenses and maintains a considerable volume of framework contracts for them. Due to complicated license metrics and licensing methods, over and under-licensing can quickly occur, needlessly using up the IT budget and incurring significant secondary costs in the event of an audit.

Porsche Informatik decided to implement a Microsoft Software Asset Management (SAM) baseline project with SoftwareONE, providing them with the current license status, which is officially reported to Microsoft in the form of a licensing statement.

SoftwareONE executed the software asset management baseline project, in close collaboration with controlling, IT system engineering and IT management of Porsche Informatik. The objective was to check for over or under-licensing and introduce preventive measures so that budgets were maximized and software licensing was in balance.

As part of the project assigned to SoftwareONE licensing experts, Porsche brought preventive transparency to its licensing base. It was then possible to adjust over-licensed areas in order to save costs. The group was also able to reduce the risk of erroneous or underlicensing and, consequently, costly re-licensing in the event of a license audit by Microsoft.

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