Case Study: Leading Freight Forwarder and Logistics Provider reduces software audit risk with Zones Discovery Services

Global company takes steps to avoid software audit risks

Zones, Inc. worked with a leading freight forwarder and logistics providing company that had grown rapidly through acquisitions and was facing repeated Microsoft software audits. The customer lacked a software asset management tool to keep track of licenses across its expanding global IT environment, creating compliance risk and unexpected true-up costs.

Zones implemented Zones Discovery Services (ZDS) with Microsoft contract analysis to improve software and hardware visibility, license tracking, and audit preparedness. The solution delivered proactive license management, accurate inventory and warranty tracking, and ongoing infrastructure oversight, helping the customer reduce future software audit risk and avoid additional true-up expenses like the prior $1.3 million and $1.2 million audit costs.