Veritas Licensing Services
Establish your Effective License Position (ELP), negotiate a better contract and protect from audits.
Supporting clients with Veritas licensing
With most Veritas licensing documentation being public, there is a heavy emphasis on customers to measure and maintain their licensing records, thus increasing the strain on their IT departments.
The complexity with the license models and data discovery elements often lead to confusion and inaccuracies when attempting to assess your compliance internally. Our Veritas licensing experts are here to help take this confusion out of the process.
We have a great deal of experience supporting clients with their Veritas licensing needs. While we have a variety of Veritas services, if you have any questions, or have specific needs, don’t hesitate to get in touch with our team today.
Veritas Licensing Services
Veritas contract review
With the sheer volume of data that can be present in the Veritas IBR/LAMP reports, in addition to any potential custom clauses from your agreement, it can be difficult to get a clear grasp of your current entitlement.
This can be further exacerbated by any historic cross grades, upgrades, license transitions and the Symantec divestiture which may result in the loss of visibility of some legacy purchases.
The aim of our Veritas contract review service is to provide you with:
• A clear baseline of current license entitlement, support levels and legacy licenses
• Potential areas for further investigation
• Potential consolidation opportunities
• Any contractual ambiguities that should be clarified
• License restrictions beyond the license metric and quantities that need to be adhered to
Veritas Effective License Position (ELP)
To fully understand your compliance with Veritas, it is necessary to periodically review the estate.
The frequency of this review should be determined through the amount of planned infrastructure migrations, as the Veritas data backup and recovery portfolio is inherently linked to architecture configuration.
Through our Veritas ELP service, we will help you understand your environment by guiding you through the data collection process and providing an in-depth report:
• Detailing the license compliance of your estate
• Optimizing the allocation of licenses owned (e.g. tier-based metrics vs core-based metrics in mixed environments)
• Identifying any potential savings opportunities or risk mitigation activities
This service is designed to ensure you have the right amount of licenses for your environment, helping you to minimize annual spend.
Veritas audit support
With Veritas’ active audit program, performed either directly or through third party auditors (such as the ‘Big Four’ auditing firms), you should be prepared by ensuring that you understand the compliance of your Veritas estate at all times.
The process itself may be overwhelming with the volume of data requests and documents issued; 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
• Supporting the data collection and provision to ensure only the mandatory data sets are shared in line with the scope and security protocols
• Validating entitlement records in line with internal documentation
• Verifying any findings and claims made
Key benefits of our Veritas 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 Veritas support
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