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Mastering Software License Compliance - Episode 7

Name: Mastering Software License Compliance - Episode 7
Uploaded: 2023-09-02T15:00:05+00:00
Duration: 56 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin discusses pitfalls to watch for when creating an Enterprise License Plan (ELP), emphasizing assumptions and the common challenge of limited…

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Mike Austin discusses pitfalls to watch for when creating an Enterprise License Plan (ELP), emphasizing assumptions and the common challenge of limited or inconsistent data availability for cloud/SaaS products. He notes that the same ELP concepts apply across multiple SaaS offerings (Office 365, Azure, Salesforce), but that each vendor exposes different data and license-level distinctions — for example, Salesforce has multiple license tiers (enterprise, pro, standard) with materially different per-user costs, complicating the task of discovering which users are assigned which tier. The speaker frames these as practical, data-driven obstacles rather than theoretical barriers.

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What are the pitfalls? What should you watch out for when you create an elp? Obviously, assumptions. I've already talked about this in, in some depth. I've talked about the lack of data and then I've talked about. I'll be looking at SAS on this course. Not specifically on, on this one, Sarah. We have, we have some other stuff around O365 and Azure and things like that and other SaaS, things the same concepts apply to this. The reality is just getting the data is different, right? So look, if you look at Salesforce for instance, right? You could create an ELP for Salesforce. Now the issue with Salesforce is they have different levels of licenses, right? Like you're gonna. And I don't know them off the top of my head, but let's say you get an enterprise and a Pro and a standard, right? And you might be 50 bucks a month to 500 bucks a month per user. And so the question is, can I figure out what users are using? Enterprise, Pro and Standard, if they're using them, those sorts of things. All these same concepts apply into the cloud and into sas.