Software Licensing Optimization & Cloud Cost Control

Microsoft Licensing Optimization & Software Spend Visibility

We build independent, vendor-proof license positions so CFOs, CIOs, and Procurement leaders negotiate renewals, audits, and cloud commitments from strength — not assumption.

Start With a SAM HealthCheck

See Your Entire Software Estate — Not Just What Vendors Show You.

MetrixData 360's analysis goes deeper across all major software publishers to expose waste, inefficiencies, and risk — so you can make confident decisions across renewals, audits, and ongoing spend.

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May 27, 2026

Mike Austin

When Your SAM Lead Is Out, Is Your Team Ready?

Vacation season exposes a SAM risk most enterprises never plan for. A vendor sent a True-Up request on a Tuesday. Moderate ask, tight window. The person who owned the software asset manageme

May 15, 2026

MetrixData 360

Microsoft Copilot ROI Reality Check: Why Enterprises Are Backing Out.

Over the past several months, I’ve had the same conversation with multiple large organizations. They adopted Microsoft Copilot with genuine enthusiasm, assigned licenses, ran internal

MetrixData 360 helps organizations build defensible Estimated License Positions (ELPs), validated entitlement baselines, and executive-ready renewal playbooks across Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, IBM, and complex SaaS portfolios.

The result: reduced audit exposure, improved forecast accuracy, and negotiation leverage vendors cannot dismiss.

Enterprise Software Contracts Negotiated

$ 5 B

Validated Data Accuracy

85 %

Microsoft 365 Licenses Validated & Optimized

1 M+

SAM Health Check Blueprint™

The SAM Health Check Blueprint™ is our proprietary 30-day diagnostic that establishes a defensible baseline across Microsoft and multi-vendor environments (IBM, Oracle, and more).

We validate your Estimated License Position (ELP), surface compliance exposure, and quantify optimization ranges — delivering an executive-ready view of renewal risk and negotiation leverage.

Before you commit, negotiate, or respond — know your position.

When we signed the EA, we listened to what our Microsoft and reseller reps told us. We never should have and overpaid for 3 years. It's money we will never get back. It was shocking. Almost 400 users that never used Office 365 at all. We thought everyone used email until MetrixData 360 investigated and showed us actual data. Our field service reps never used a single Office 365 service. We were able to change the license we bought for them and save significant amounts of money.”

CIO of Fortune 500 Company

Amazing is all I can say. With a few minutes’ effort to download reports out of our tenant, we received useful data that helped us find waste and reduced our costs by over $2M annually. We couldn’t have done this by ourselves. Thanks MetrixData 360!”

VP of Infrastructure