Micro Focus Licensing Services
Establish your Effective License Position (ELP), negotiate a better contract and protect from audits.
Supporting clients with Micro Focus licensing
Micro Focus’ aggressive audit strategy, convoluted license terms and manual data collection processes put your organization at risk of having to pay a substantial settlement if found to be in breach of your licenses.
At ITAA we offer a range of Micro Focus licensing advisory services to help address this.
Don’t allow yourself to become non-compliant. Whether you’ve been notified of an upcoming audit, or you want to prepare for one in the future, our consultants are here to guide you through the complicated world of Micro Focus auditing and ensure your compliance.
Micro Focus Licensing Services
Micro Focus contract review
With Micro Focus’ numerous acquisitions over time, it’s very easy to end up with a disparate collection of agreements with different intent, terms and conditions and (quite often) many contradictions.
We’ll help you clarify your Micro Focus license situation.
• Create a clear baseline of entitlement
• Identify any inconsistencies and unfavorable clauses that need to be renegotiated
• Find consolidation opportunities
Micro Focus Effective License Position
Understanding your Micro Focus estate is essential when looking to ensure compliance.
Through our Micro Focus ELP service, we will help you understand the different metrics associated with their extensive product portfolio, while guiding you through the various data collection steps required to measure your license requirements.
The process emulates Micro Focus license verification, including the questionnaire driven process for HPE products and the file data driven investigations for Attachmate and Rumba families amongst others.
Combined with an in-depth contract review, you will receive a comprehensive ELP, detailing any risks and opportunities, taking account of the various restrictions imposed by Micro Focus such as Territory and third-party access rights.
Micro Focus audit support
Micro Focus’ heavy reliance on audits (also referred to as license verifications) and the aggressive manner in which they are performed can make for an unpleasant experience for their clients who find themselves overwhelmed when they suddenly have to pay a large non-compliance settlement.
We can help you throughout the Micro Focus License Verification process by:
Clarifying the requests and the 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 Micro Focus questionnaires are tailored in a “one-size-fits-all” manner, leading to excessive data requests)
Verifying the findings and claims made, meaning you always have an expert in your corner
Key benefits of our Micro Focus licensing service
Independent expertise, market intelligence, and a focus on agreements that protect you well beyond the signing date.
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.
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.
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.
Expert Micro Focus support
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