Case Study: Global Commodities Business achieves over $641k Microsoft licensing savings with Certero ELP service

Global Commodities Business Realizes Over $641k Microsoft Licensing Saving through Certero ‘ELP’ Service

Global Commodities Business, a commodities firm with a 5,000+ device estate across 50 countries, faced fragmented visibility and no central SAM capability after multiple acquisitions. They struggled with complex historic Microsoft entitlements, cloud sprawl from Office 365, and limited in-house SAM tooling and skills. To address this, they engaged Certero and its Effective License Position (ELP) and Optimization Service (Microsoft) to gain a single source of truth and clarity over licensing exposure.

Certero delivered a Baseline ELP using the Certero Unified Platform (discovery, entitlement consolidation, automated ELP creation and expert optimization recommendations), quickly bringing the global estate into view and producing actionable recommendations. Certero identified over $641,000 in Microsoft licensing opportunities — including SaaS optimization (~$256k), virtualization optimizations (~$190k) and SQL consolidation (~$256k) — and helped the customer reduce risk, cut renewal costs and move toward a sustained SAM Managed Service with Certero.