Roba Metals also benefits from Q-Advise expertise

‘Thanks to Q-Advise we were able to sell many surplus Microsoft licenses and achieve significant savings’

Erik de Jong, ICT manager at Roba Metals, is very pleased with the collaboration his company entered into with Q-Advise. “The people at Q-Advise are very well informed about all the possibilities in the field of software licenses. This has led to us being able to sell many surplus licenses and realizing a nice saving. We did not expect that beforehand,” says De Jong.

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Q-Advise is an independent organization specialized in licensing advice regarding contracts of Microsoft, IBM, Oracle & SAP. They do this for commercial enterprises, healthcare institutions and (semi) government institutions. Roba Metals recently switched to working in the Cloud . Reason to optimize the license position. De Jong explains: “We had reviewed our license position, which made it clear that we had too many software licenses under management.

‘Used licenses are worth money’

Q-Advise was then called in to sell the surplus licenses. They did this to our complete satisfaction, with a nice return and savings as a result,” De Jong explains. “It is nice to be able to fall back on a party like Q-Advise, which actively thought along about the sale of licenses. We work with expensive Microsoft products, such as SQL and Dynamics. If you set up your license position incorrectly for those products, you pay a lot for it. Now we have been able to earn back a huge amount of money on our used licenses thanks to Q-Advise.”

‘Coercion to invest’

Q-Advise has years of experience in the field of license management, optimizing contracts and buying and selling second-hand licenses. Companies are often ‘forced’ by Microsoft, Oracle SAP and other large software manufacturers (whether or not via a reseller) to invest first before better commercial advantages can be realized. The commercial advantages are then often a taste of their own medicine.

‘DNA software giants’

It is not in the DNA of software giants to help customers optimize and improve contracts in a transparent way, as Q-Advise does. “Many organizations do not understand the pressure that software manufacturers put on customers. We can offer companies and organizations customized solutions and optimize their license position to such an extent that they save a lot on their software contracts. Erik de Jong of Roba Metals took a critical look at his license position and then saw a lot of redundant software licenses, which we were able to sell for a very good price and which resulted in considerable savings for them.”

Are you curious about how much you can save on your software licenses, do you also want to buy or sell second-hand licenses? Or do you want independent advice on a contract extension? We are happy to make your savings clear. Feel free to contact us!

 

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