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Mastering Software License Compliance - Episode 10

Name: Mastering Software License Compliance - Episode 10
Uploaded: 2023-09-09T15:00:28+00:00
Duration: 1 min 3 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin walks through a case where a Microsoft reseller had been tracking Windows and SQL licenses with data quality below 70% for three years…

9 Sept 2023 · 1 min

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Mike Austin walks through a case where a Microsoft reseller had been tracking Windows and SQL licenses with data quality below 70% for three years, leaving the client with over six figures in compliance risk. Austin found cost optimization opportunities too, and stresses that license compliance is simple in concept but hard to execute.

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With a client recently that they had an LSP that was doing their Windows and SQL True up for them for the last three years. For those of you who don't know what an LSP is, that's a Microsoft Reseller cell PhD. Okay. They thought they had it and for some reason they decided to hire us to validate certain things. And we found out that their data quality was at less than 70%. So the reseller was creating license positions for the last three years on 70% data. When we went in, we were like, you guys aren't compliant. In fact, you have a six figure plus compliance exposure, right? But the good news is here's some cost optimization drinks. We don't just look at it from the compliance thing. That could result in some savings. And so we were actually able to get them a little bit of a reduction in cost by doing this. But they, they thought that things were going right and they, they basically, you know, the, and here's the reason because they asked me why is it that this happened? Okay, here is the reason. Because what happens is this stuff is simple in concept, not easy to do, it is very difficult to actually do.