Licensing management services

When it comes to licensing, spending a little on problem prevention can lead to major savings down the road. To cover all sides of licensing management, we breakdown our services into two categories:

• Licensing inspections / Royalty examinations
• Software Asset Management (SAM)

Licensing inspections / Royalty examinations

The equation is simple: accurately detecting fraud, performing background research and reviewing your agreements will help you reap full revenues from licensing arrangements.

In 90% of the royalty examinations we undertake for our clients, we uncover under-reported revenues due to clerical errors, accounting mistakes or contract misunderstandings.

PwC’s Licensing Management programme assists in accurate reporting

We aim to ensure accurate reporting and royalty compliance in the future by providing:

• licensing enforcement programmes
• licensing consulting services
• dispute resolution and arbitration

Almost invariably, our investigations lead to financial recoveries, sometimes in very substantial amounts.

Software Asset Management (SAM)

How big a role does software play in running your operations and generating profits? Chances are it’s a big one. Yet, chances also are that you pay little or no attention to controlling the deployment, usage or licence compliance of your software.

The objective of PwC’s Software Asset Management (SAM) is to reconcile the 3 aspects of business software:

• entitlement (what is licensed)
• deployment (what is installed)
• needs (what is actually used)

By working outside organisations to develop and implement SAM solutions, we identify non-compliance issues and assist companies across a range of industries to verify or dispute findings identified through audits conducted by software vendors.