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Software Healthcheck

Independent, vendor-neutral software audits that uncover wasted spend, eliminate compliance risk and put you back in control of your licensing investments — typically returning 15–28% in year-one savings, as well as identifying licence wastage, non-optimised investments and unrealised entitlements.

15–28%
Average year-one software cost reduction
100%
Vendor-neutral — we don't take vendor commissions on audit work
2–4 wks
Typical audit cycle from discovery to actionable report
Why audit?

Most mid-market organisations are over-licensed by 18% — and at the same time non-compliant somewhere in their estate.

Vendor sales motions are designed to maximise spend, not optimise outcomes. True-ups, bundling, hidden user-counts, idle Visual Studio subscriptions, dormant Adobe Creative Cloud seats, over-tier'd Microsoft 365 SKUs and miscounted SQL cores compound year on year. A System Squared software audit gives you a single, defensible source of truth — what you own, what you actually use, and what you should be paying.

Methodology

Four phases. Defensible. Repeatable.

01

Discover

Pull entitlement records from Microsoft VLSC / MPSA / partner portal, Adobe VIP and VMware licensing portals. Cross-reference SCCM/Intune/Jamf inventory.

02

Measure

Six-week active-usage telemetry across M365, Teams, Power Platform, Visual Studio, Adobe CC and VMware environment metrics.

03

Reconcile

Effective License Position (ELP) report — entitled vs. deployed vs. used. Flag compliance gaps and waste hot-spots.

04

Optimise

Remediation roadmap with quantified savings, SKU-level reshape recommendations and renewal-event-aligned action calendar.

Vendors covered

Audit-ready across the estate

Microsoft

Microsoft 365, EMS, Dynamics 365, Power Platform, Windows Server, SQL Server cores, Visual Studio, Project & Visio. Includes EA, MCA, CSP and MPSA agreements.

Adobe

Creative Cloud All Apps and Single App, Acrobat Pro, Document Cloud, Substance, VIP/ETLA right-sizing.

VMware by Broadcom

vSphere Foundation / Cloud Foundation core-count modelling under the new subscription model.

SaaS sprawl

Salesforce, Atlassian, Zoom, DocuSign, Box, Dropbox, Slack, monday.com — discover shadow SaaS and orphaned seats.

Deliverable

What you get

Effective License Position report

Boardroom-ready, vendor-by-vendor reconciliation. Compliance status, dollar-quantified exposure, renewal calendar, optimisation backlog ranked by ROI.

Negotiation playbook

For every upcoming renewal: target SKU mix, walk-away price, leverage points, alternative vendor pricing benchmarks. We can stay engaged through negotiation as your independent advisor.

Stop renewing on auto-pilot.

Most software audits pay for themselves inside 90 days. Book a free 30-minute scoping call to size the opportunity in your environment.

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