The position should exist
before the letter does.
CerteroX keeps a current, evidenced record of the software you own and the software you actually use. When Microsoft, Oracle or IBM write to audit you, the answer is already there.
So when the letter arrives you're checking a number - not building one.
Effective Licence Position
IllustrativeSQL Server 2019 Enterprise · per core
Recalculated on every inventory cycle
- Licensable footprint 13 hosts, cluster-aware
- 176 cores
- Excluded from licensing MSDN, lab, second use · approved
- −24 cores
- Required
- 152 cores
- Purchased MLS import + 2 agreements
- 128 cores
- Variance
- −24 cores
Exposure
24 cores
An audit is a bill you can see coming.
Software publishers have the right to audit how you use their products. Most organisations respond by spending weeks pulling contracts, spreadsheets and inventory together against a deadline, and any gap they cannot evidence is settled on the publisher’s terms. CerteroX does that work all year round, so the figures are ready before anyone asks for them.
- Cost
Pay for what you use, and no more.
Usage data shows which installs nobody opens, so a shortfall can be closed by reusing licences you already own before anyone raises a purchase order.
- Risk
A defensible answer from day one.
Every figure comes with the contract, invoice or approval behind it. Oracle’s own audit team can accept Certero data during an official audit.
- Effort
No more audit fire drills.
The position updates itself every time inventory runs, so your team reviews a number in an afternoon rather than spending a quarter rebuilding it.
Customer
“My advice to other organizations contemplating RFP’s for ITAM and SAM is: just take Certero.”
- devices
- 4,000
Recognition
The only vendor named Customers’ Choice in the 2024 Gartner® Peer Insights™ Voice of the Customer for Software Asset Management Tools.
4× Customers’ Choice in the category: 2019, 2020, 2021, 2024
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Three of the five disciplines.
Each runs standalone and shares one asset model, so the parts of this that span products need no integration work.
- Primary CerteroX SAM Six publisher engines, the entitlement maths and the effective licence position. Learn more
- Also applies CerteroX ITAM Ten discovery methods, so what the publisher is counting is something you can see too. Learn more
- Also applies CerteroX SaaS Management Subscription seats and vendor-authoritative licence lists, counted in the same position. Learn more
Running the SAM or IT side? The full detail covers how the figures are built, what each part of the platform does and the questions practitioners ask us most.
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We will bring the position.
A full effective licence position at real scale, opened line by line, with the evidence underneath and the exclusions most organisations never claim. Whichever publisher has your attention is the one we start on.
No gated PDF, a technical person on the call, and a written position afterwards.