Mastering Software License Compliance: ELPs and Licensing Methods for Audit

Automatically go and they'll look at this. In this case, they'll look at this and say, well, oh geez, we're in Trouble. We're short 995 Adobe Professional and we're short to 2000 plus acrobat standards. But this is just the beginning. And if you saw the full elp, this would be a workbook. Usually these things come in Excel and most vendors, they all look the same. Might be slight variations, but you're going to see the same thing. Product edition, version licenses, own deployment counts and pluses and minuses. But it's the workbooks that go with these things where if you went, if this was a full elp, there would be a tab that said Acrobat Pro or Acrobat Standard and it would have the devices that was installed on and all of that sort of stuff. And in fact, even in small audits of custom companies with only a few hundred PCs or 1000 or so PCs, the amounts of rows of data that need to be reviewed are tens of thousands. Those two big ones that I was talking about, where it was millions of dollars, there are probably million plus rows of data that needed to be reviewed in order to do a license position. And the.