By 1,500 employees you have an EA, a Salesforce footprint, and an AWS bill that's growing faster than headcount. By 5,000 you have an audit risk you can't quantify. We sit in for the SAM team you don't have yet - and pay for ourselves on the first renewal.
1,000-5,000 employees, $1M-$10M in annual software and telecom spend, growing faster than the SAM function.
Microsoft, Oracle, and Salesforce price your first multi-year against your projected growth - not your actual usage. Without specialist benchmarking, you'll overpay 25-35% for the next three years.
Vendor audits land hardest on mid-market. The estate is real but the SAM tooling and process aren't. We've defended seven-figure claims down to $0 in 8-12 weeks.
AWS or Azure went from a few thousand a month to a meaningful line item. Reserved instances, savings plans, and rightsizing alone usually cut 25-35% off the bill.
If you're acquiring, you're inheriting someone else's software mess. We diligence the target's licensing exposure before close and harmonize the estate after.
We bring the discount structures, true-up tactics, and competitive leverage that mid-market buyers don't have repeat reps with. Typical first-renewal savings: 20-30%.
We've handled audits from Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, and the BSA. We respond on your behalf, rebuild the licensing position, and negotiate to a clean settlement.
Real engineers run rightsizing, RI strategy, and BYOL math across AWS, Azure, and GCP. Governance gets handed back to your team once savings are realized.
Quantified license exposure across an acquisition target in 2-3 weeks. Output is wired into purchase-price negotiation and a 100-day post-close remediation plan.
"UMS has been an invaluable partner in managing our software costs - across multiple administrations, multiple agencies, and over $800M in cumulative savings."
UMS reconciled a regional insurance carrier's Microsoft entitlements and deployments, showed its on-prem SQL Server, Windows Server, and System Center estate could stay on perpetual rights without new renewal purchases if versions stayed flat, and created a transfer-plus-downsize plan for the Microsoft 365 subscription stack.
Across multiple Microsoft reconciliation cycles, UMS helped a regional consumer finance lender reconcile deployment and entitlement data, surface hidden SQL and Office exposure, and turn annual true-up work into a repeatable operating process.
A regional credit union replaced Snow with ServiceNow SAM Pro, delivered 22 scoped workstreams across entitlement, SaaS, reclamation, and reporting, and reached 90%+ normalization across 4,000+ discovered software records by handoff.
Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce, and more. We know every licensing loophole and contract pitfall. Get fair terms and pricing.
Facing a Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, or SAP audit? We've reduced audit claims by up to 78%. Deep licensing expertise and aggressive negotiation protect your position.
Enterprise Agreement renewal support for Microsoft estates. Right-size licenses, model true-up exposure, and negotiate from a fact base instead of a vendor quote.
Managed SAM and ITAM execution for teams that need more than dashboards. We help you prioritize renewals, defend audits, right-size licensing, and run the program.
Right-size, renegotiate, and eliminate redundant services. Azure and AWS optimization that delivers real savings.
We've stopped deals over $10M exposures. We've also saved them. Know exactly what you're acquiring before you close.
Book a free 30-minute consultation. We'll show you exactly where your software, cloud, and telecom savings are - no obligation, no upfront cost.