Licensing consultants are engaged when the questions stop being administrative. We bring the baselines, benchmarks, and negotiation discipline of 500+ engagements across 11 vendor practices to your side of the table.
Licensing consultants are engaged when the questions stop being administrative: what the estate actually owns, what an audit would find, what a metric change costs, and what the conversion offer really trades away.
It fits organizations without in house licensing depth on a specific vendor, and teams facing a decision, a migration, an audit, an M&A event, where the licensing answer moves seven figures.
The pattern repeats across estates, and each element is fixable:
Each is measurable, each is negotiable, and the engagement converts them from complaints into outcomes.
Every engagement in this practice runs the same four workstream discipline, tuned to the vendors and decisions in scope.
| Deliverable | What it contains |
|---|---|
| Baseline report | The verified position across contracts, entitlements, usage, and spend. |
| Benchmark and target sheet | Targets per element with walk away lines, measured against comparable agreements. |
| Strategy playbook | Sequencing, fiscal timing, and anticipated vendor moves with prepared responses. |
| Written proposal assessments | Every vendor proposal assessed in writing with recommended responses. |
| Final contract review | Pre signature confirmation that negotiated positions are correctly reflected. |
Every recommendation is independent by structure: no reseller agreements, no vendor referral fees, and no implementation revenue behind the advice. The only side of the table we sit on is yours, across all 11 vendor practices.
The method is the same one behind 500+ published engagements: verified baselines, benchmarks from comparable closed deals, and timing sequenced against each vendor's fiscal pressure points.
Your team keeps the chair and the vendor relationships. We prepare every exchange: written assessments of each proposal, meeting preparation with anticipated tactics, and a final contract review before signature.
The engagement runs fixed price, all inclusive, or on contingency at 25 percent of the savings we deliver: you keep 75 percent, and if we save you nothing, you pay nothing.
Outcomes on the record from across the practice.
Kroger resolved a $20M Oracle Java claim at zero cost.
✓ Published case studyA Fortune 500 company cut its Microsoft EA renewal 20 percent.
✓ Published case studyAn Australian telecom won 30 percent Salesforce savings with unprecedented flexibility.
✓ Published case studyA global bank cut its Broadcom VMware renewal by 50 percent.
Establish what you own, what you deploy, and what the gap costs, then apply it: audit defense, conversion math, migration licensing, and the entitlement questions behind every major vendor decision.
All 11 practices: Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce, IBM, Broadcom VMware, AWS, Google Cloud, ServiceNow, Workday, Cisco, and GenAI vendors, with dedicated service pages per vendor.
Before the decision, not after: ahead of audits, migrations, conversions, renewals, and M&A events. The entitlement baseline built early is what every later negotiation stands on.
With a short scoping call and a data request list. The baseline builds from your existing contracts, reporting, and tooling, and the first deliverable typically lands within 10 business days of complete data.
Yes. Vendor Shield provides standing coverage, the Renewal Events Program runs the calendar as one campaign, and the Vendor Benchmark Program covers the long tail. Engagements fold into any of them.
Completely. No reseller agreements, no referral fees, no vendor money of any kind, across all 11 vendor practices. The advice is structurally independent of every vendor commercial interest.
No. We advise and prepare, and your team keeps the chair and all vendor communications. Every proposal gets a written assessment before you respond, and key meetings get preparation with anticipated tactics.
Fixed price, all inclusive, or contingency at 25 percent of the savings we deliver: you keep 75 percent, and if we save you nothing, you pay nothing.
Baselines, benchmarks, and execution from the practice behind 500+ published engagements.
One letter a month. Negotiation moves, audit signals, and price book shifts.