When you're under 1,000 employees, software and telecom spend is everyone's job and no one's job. We bring 25 years of enterprise vendor intelligence to engagements sized for SMB budgets - usually starting with telecom, where the wins are fastest.
10-999 employees, no dedicated SAM or TEM resource.
When IT and finance both touch software and neither owns it, vendors get the easy renewal. SMBs are routinely overpaying on Microsoft 365, Salesforce, and AWS by 15-25%.
POTS lines, PBX systems, and outdated UC contracts sit on the books because no one has time to migrate them. Fifteen POTS lines have run us $44K in annual savings on a single engagement.
RingCentral, 8x8, and Zoom Phone routinely lock SMBs into $40-$45/user plans where 95% of features go unused. Right-sized plans land closer to $5-$6/user.
AWS and Azure spend started small, then crept. Without a FinOps function, it's all on-demand pricing on workloads that should be on reserved instances or rightsized off.
We start where the money moves fastest - usually legacy POTS, PBX, or oversized UC plans. First wins typically land in 4-6 weeks with no procurement disruption.
Same 25-year vendor playbook as our enterprise practice, scoped to SMB economics. Shared-savings model means zero upfront cost - we only get paid as savings hit your books.
License reclassification, unused-seat reclamation, and renewal benchmarking on M365, Salesforce, Dropbox, and the long tail of SaaS contracts that aged into your stack.
AWS and Azure rightsizing, reserved-instance strategy, and BYOL math handled by engineers - not a dashboard. Set-and-forget governance once savings are realized.
"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.
UMS conducted a rapid Microsoft license optimization assessment for NYCHA, identifying over $500,000 in immediate savings on M365 licensing - with zero upfront cost to the agency.
Quick wins in 60-90 days. Free initial assessment to identify immediate savings opportunities across your Microsoft estate.
Software license optimization for Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, VMware, and SaaS estates. Right-size entitlements, eliminate waste, and improve vendor leverage.
Right-size, renegotiate, and eliminate redundant services. Azure and AWS optimization that delivers real savings.
Telecom audits, mobility and wireless savings, Teams/Zoom/Webex integration, and legacy service elimination. Find waste hiding in your telecom spend.
Book a free 30-minute consultation. We'll show you exactly where your software, cloud, and telecom savings are - no obligation, no upfront cost.