Adobe Licensing Services

Our Adobe licensing services include audit defense, deployment analysis, contractual review and optimization of your annual renewal.

Supporting clients with Adobe

While Adobe licensing is generally considered one of the simplest amongst the major vendors, the ease of deployment, volume of requests and widespread presence of counterfeit software can pose major problems. Common pitfalls that companies encounter include potential overspend as a result of sprawl and potential risk from counterfeit software installations, often due to inadequate IT Security policies.

Our Adobe licensing experts have a great deal of experience supporting clients with their Adobe licensing needs. We outline some of our core licensing services below, but please feel free to contact us with any query or concern you have – every situation is different and we are very happy to discuss your specific requirements.

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Supporting clients with Adobe

While Adobe licensing is generally considered one of the simplest amongst the major vendors, the ease of deployment, volume of requests and widespread presence of counterfeit software can pose major problems. Common pitfalls that companies encounter include potential overspend as a result of sprawl and potential risk from counterfeit software installations, often due to inadequate IT Security policies.

Our Adobe licensing experts have a great deal of experience supporting clients with their Adobe licensing needs. We outline some of our core licensing services below, but please feel free to contact us with any query or concern you have – every situation is different and we are very happy to discuss your specific requirements.

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Our Adobe licensing services

Adobe Effective License Position (ELP)

To fully understand your compliance with Adobe, it is necessary to periodically review the estate. Through our Adobe ELP service, we will help you understand your environment by guiding you through the entitlement and deployment data collection process used by auditors and providing an in-depth report detailing:

  • A clear license entitlement position for all the perpetual licenses and active subscriptions you are entitled to, including any notable clauses or restrictions that may be present within your contract(s).
  • A comprehensive deployment summary including the associated license requirements.
  • A breakdown of all potential cost savings opportunities and risk mitigation activities identified.

This report can then be used for various purposes:

  • Actioning potential cost-avoidance opportunities via re-harvesting unused licenses
  • Updating processes to tackle potential risk from sprawl and counterfeit software instances
  • Achieving cost savings by rightsizing your license volumes or ETLA agreements.

The deployment report can be used to help certify ETLA license volumes if required.

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Adobe Audit Support

Whether you have received a formal Adobe Audit or have been approached by Adobe at the end of your ETLA to certify your license requirements, the process and data requests can seem overwhelming.

Our service aims to help you through this process by:

  • Clarifying the requests and the key data points so you are fully comfortable in sharing any requested data and at your own pace
  • Ensuring that only the mandatory data points are shared (often the data requests encompass products and data requests beyond the agreed scope)
  • Verifying any findings and claims made
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Key benefits of our Adobe licensing service

Understand your license usage

Nobody wants to pay for too many licenses. Regular assessment from our experts will ensure that you don’t have too many, or too few. We’ll identify optimization opportunities, resulting in a potential reduction of your annual fees.

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Fully independent advice

Our advice is all 100% independent of any software providers, meaning that we can quickly assess and subsequently minimize the damage of any hidden non-compliance, all without biases. Get to the bottom of what you owe – if anything.

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Limit risk & financial consequences

Our independent advice ensures that you do not pay too much for your actual usage, and any non-compliance is reduced as much as possible.

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Understand your license usage

Nobody wants to pay for too many licenses. Regular assessment from our experts will ensure that you don’t have too many, or too few. We’ll identify optimization opportunities, resulting in a potential reduction of your annual fees.

Get in touch

Fully independent advice

Our advice is all 100% independent of any software providers, meaning that we can quickly assess and subsequently minimize the damage of any hidden non-compliance, all without biases. Get to the bottom of what you owe – if anything.

Get in touch

Limit risk & financial consequences

Our independent advice ensures that you do not pay too much for your actual usage, and any non-compliance is reduced as much as possible.

Get in touch

See the results for yourself

We work with a variety of Adobe customers, across a wide range of industries and specialisms.

By relying on our vast experience, our clients achieve tangible cost savings and real results. Here are a few examples of work we have completed:

We performed an in-depth deployment assessment ahead of an ELA renewal for a major financial institution, resulting in a cost avoidance of $240k through re-harvesting opportunities and rightsizing of the agreement.

We supported a manufacturing business in updating their IT policies through identifying flaws in their BYOD policy, highlighting several potentially counterfeit instances of Photoshop and Dreamweaver and triggering a project that significantly reduced the potential risk within the estate from both a compliance and a cyber-security perspective.

We supported a mid-sized European organization through the entire end-to-end audit process from managing the data provision to validating the findings, in the process resolving and clarifying potential ambiguities to result in a compliant outcome.

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