Case Study: Dutch Police achieves multi‑million euro savings and audit‑free licensing with Flexera ITAM

Solving the case of runaway ITAM costs

The Dutch Police (Politie), with about 65,000 employees across ten regional units, a central unit and a Police Services Center, faced growing complexity after consolidating their IT from 27 to seven environments. As a taxpayer-funded government agency with mostly on‑premises ITAM, they struggled to track software licenses, faced tight timelines for SAM automation, and needed reliable data to avoid costly overages.

They implemented Flexera ITAM, gaining continuously refreshed, trustworthy inventory data and vendor-supported deployment to meet deadlines. The result: centralized budget and procurement for software licenses, clear visibility into usage, zero true-up costs in at least one audit, a drop from five–six audits a year to zero–one, no vendor audit issues, and multi‑millions of euros saved—while planning to extend oversight to cloud spend.

Dutch Police

John Haenen

Software Asset Consultant