Case Study: Canadian Energy Corporation reduces Microsoft licensing costs by 70% with SoftwareONE

Customer Reduces Expenditure Needed to Resolve Gap in Microsoft Licensing by 70 Percent

Canadian Energy Corporation, an independent non-profit responsible for safeguarding Canada's electricity supply, needed to ensure its Microsoft software was correctly licensed across on-premise and off-site hosted devices. As a publicly funded organization with limited IT resources, it lacked the bandwidth and expertise to analyze its complex estate and identify any compliance gaps, a need that became urgent after a Microsoft scrutiny of its hosting provider.

SoftwareONE was engaged to perform a comprehensive license discovery and reconciliation. Their experts quickly scanned over 600 servers and client devices, identified a significant SQL Server licensing gap, and provided cost-effective optimization recommendations. SoftwareONE's solution enabled the customer to resolve its licensing shortfall while reducing the required expenditure on additional licenses by 70 percent, ensuring ongoing compliance and freeing up internal resources.