Micro Focus Licensing

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.

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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.

Talk to a consultant

Our 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
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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.

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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
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Key benefits of our Micro Focus 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

See the results for yourself

We work with a variety of Micro Focus 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 have performed several internal compliance reviews, identifying potential rightsizing opportunities and risk mitigation activities. A notable example includes a review of an Attachmate environment for a European manufacturing company with a significant risk mitigation result through re-architecting their Citrix solution.

We supported a major European bank in rightsizing their ELA renewal by optimizing their estate and clarifying requirement. This achieved a cost avoidance in excess of EUR 200k.

We have guided numerous clients through the License Verification process, clarifying the process, streamlining the data provisioning, challenging any assumptions made by the auditors and validating any findings. We recently supported a US based financial institution in rightsizing the scope of the audit and correcting various assumptions made by the third-party auditors.

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