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Enterprise License Agreement Optimization
Deep licensing expertise and decision support to help you save millions on EA purchases and renewals.
Cut Through the Complexity
IT vendors profit from complex licensing and subscription models, and large enterprise customers pay the price. NPI’s advisory experts educate and guide your buying team throughout the EA purchase and renewal process, helping you:
- Define viable licensing options for your environment
- Understand advantages and disadvantages
- Develop cost models to support decision-making
- Buy only what you need with best-fit license types
- Mitigate compliance and audit risks
- Execute vendor-aware negotiation strategies
Enterprise Agreement Optimization for Your Largest Software Estates
NPI’s enterprise software agreement optimization services cover the classic mega-vendors – Microsoft, SAP, Oracle and IBM – and also newcomers that have joined the complexity ranks like Salesforce, ServiceNow, VMware and others. From mainframe to cloud (and everything in between), our licensing experts have you covered. Our EA optimization services are provided on a fixed-fee project basis, customized precisely to your needs. NPI is not a reseller, so our services are unbiased and focused solely on your optimal outcome.
Unlocking Savings on the SAP S/4HANA Conversion Journey
When’s the Right Time to Start?
Enterprise license agreement optimization is crucial for renewals, and for significant new purchases. Too often, companies assume their current licensing models are the best fit and base counts are accurate, but that’s rarely the case. For upcoming renewals or large-scale purchases, begin optimization early – ideally six months in advance, but at least two. With the right runway and NPI’s vendor-specific licensing experts, you can ensure you buy only what you need at the lowest possible cost.
The NPI Difference
The Fortune 500 trust NPI to optimize their largest software agreements because they know our results are unrivaled. When you engage with us, you get access to:
- Licensing experts that have SKU-level and up-to-date understanding of enterprise licensing options and their cost, flexibility, and risk implications
- Hundreds of person-years of experience constructing large enterprise purchases with mega-vendors – on the vendor’s side of the table and on NPI clients’ side of the table
- Decision support and actionable insights that accelerate your buying cycle, increase your confidence, and build your reputation in the enterprise
- Precedence-based negotiation guidance that delivers maximum savings
4 Ways to Save on Your IBM Passport Renewal
6 Months Before a Big Renewal, Perform a License Position Assessment
Fact #1: There is cost-waste in your current estate, even you have strong software asset management.
Fact #2: Vendors love to sniff out noncompliance during EA renewals.
Don’t get caught unprepared. NPI’s
license position assessment services provide a fact-based usage baseline to feed into demand definition for renewals, and identify compliance issues for remediation.
