SoftwareOne Optimization and Licensing Assessment

AWS Optimization and Licensing Assessment (OLA)

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Evaluate your IT environment to reduce costs and optimize organizational resources

Assess and optimize your current on-premise and cloud environments based on actual resource utilization, licensing, and application dependencies with SoftwareOne’s Optimization and Licensing Assessment (OLA).

As SoftwareOne has partnered with Amazon Web Services (AWS) to help your company build a migration and licensing strategy on AWS, ranging from cloud adoption to cloud optimization. With this assessment, you’ll be able to evaluate your cloud deployment options, best utilize existing license entitlements, take the best path toward cost savings with workloads such as Windows, and right-size resources on optimized AWS instances.

As one of the few global AWS Migration Consulting Partners, SoftwareOne is your strategic business advisor to accelerate your cloud adoption journey while helping you reduce cost, increase agility, and improve security.

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Use cases | Optimization and Licensing Assessment

We can guide you on your journey to migrate applications and legacy infrastructure to AWS with these common use-case scenarios.

Bring Your Own Licence (BYOL)
Licensing mobility for AWS
Structured Query Language (SQL) Server on AWS
Migrate SQL from On Prem to AWS
Cost Optimization
Lower server costs on AWS compared to on-premise
SQL Server on End of Support
Higher performance and reliability
Windows Server on End of Support
Future-proof your legacy server apps on AWS

OLA Service Framework Overview (4-6 weeks)

SoftwareOne’s service framework for OLAs can help you figure out how to best optimize your existing license entitlements and plan for a cloud future.

Discovery and Data Analysis

Use SoftwareOne’s Gartner-leading software license management (SLM) methodology for data collection
Use AWS proven best practices and tools for right‑sizing analysis
Follow recommended standards for data collection and security
Identify low-use and atrisk devices

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Create Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) Report

For on-premise environment
For AWS right-sized environment
Strategy to consume licenses in AWS
Recommend AWS pricing models and savings options

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Executive Summary

Strategy to consume Microsoft Licenses in AWS
TCO for an on-premise data center in AWS
Directional business case, roadmap, and next steps
SoftwareOne will define and procure AWS funding

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Let SoftwareOne be your trusted AWS advisor

SoftwareOne aims to make it as easy as possible for you to find, test, buy, and deploy software that runs on AWS through one single solution provider. Ease the burden of bringing together different services and speed up your business by channeling your AWS services through SoftwareOne.

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