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MetrixData 360 A passionate group of software licensing experts who assist companies to optimize software both on-premise and in the cloud.

The combined experience of more than 80 years optimizing software licensing from Microsoft, IBM, SAP, Oracle, and many more.

Eleven CSP promotions expired on September 30 and a 5% cost-of-capital uplift began on October 1, both limited to the Cl...
10/09/2026

Eleven CSP promotions expired on September 30 and a 5% cost-of-capital uplift began on October 1, both limited to the Cloud Solution Provider channel.

Five Microsoft lifecycle clocks stop together on October 13.

Full coverage: https://hubs.li/Q04zL6W70

If an IBM audit letter landed tomorrow, could you hand over eight quarters of ILMT snapshots?This quarter is easy. The o...
10/08/2026

If an IBM audit letter landed tomorrow, could you hand over eight quarters of ILMT snapshots?
This quarter is easy. The older ones are where programs come apart: generated once, saved to someone's drive, gone when that person moved on.
That history is the price of the sub-capacity discount.

IBM lets you license a 4-core VM instead of its 32-core host, as long as you can prove it with quarterly snapshots kept for two years. Without the proof, you're licensing the host at eight times the quantity.
https://hubs.li/Q04zBTt50

Two spreadsheets walk into a software audit.One is yours. The other is the vendor's.Guess whose numbers the True-Up bill...
10/06/2026

Two spreadsheets walk into a software audit.
One is yours. The other is the vendor's.
Guess whose numbers the True-Up bill is based on?

One team that used our checklist before a vendor review told us they "quickly realized our internal data didn't align with what the vendor was using." That's a much better time to find out than halfway through the negotiation.

The Software Audit Risk Checklist covers the usual weak spots:
→ Overstated baselines
→ Entitlements nobody has checked
→ Data gaps that weaken your negotiating position

It takes a few minutes and could save you a lot of money. Get it here: https://hubs.li/Q04zh7Vr0

The hardest part of Oracle licensing isn't the processor math. It's everything that gets switched on by accident.On one ...
10/02/2026

The hardest part of Oracle licensing isn't the processor math. It's everything that gets switched on by accident.

On one estate we work on there's a flag from 2022 for an option nobody bought, and everyone who would have known why has left. No way to tell an auditor whether that was a DBA clicking around during an upgrade or three years of production monitoring.

Enterprise Edition arrives with the paid options installed and allowed. We used to tell clients there were no restrictions at all, which turned out to be wrong in a fairly annoying way. There is one. It covers two packs out of dozens, and it ships set to allow them.

Run Oracle's own usage script this quarter, then write down the context while the people who remember are still here. The script is the easy half.

Sharon Idaraji wrote it up: https://hubs.li/Q04yZk7F0

10/01/2026

Where does Microsoft hide costs that end up costing the organizations big money?
- Learn what Microsoft's dependency stack is, and how bundling various dependencies catches most organizations off guard.
Want to see where your Microsoft dependencies hide? Reach out: https://hubs.li/Q04yTBMz0

09/30/2026

Is it ever too early or late to think about your Microsoft EA renewal? Here is what organizations need to be doing ahead of their renewal time: https://hubs.li/Q04yL4h_0

Adobe licensing risk is no longer static. Here is what it means for enterprise governance: https://hubs.li/Q04yBfBg0 ...
09/29/2026

Adobe licensing risk is no longer static.

Here is what it means for enterprise governance: https://hubs.li/Q04yBfBg0

Microsoft has removed Teams Events from Teams Premium. If you bought it for events, your renewal will be a downgrade.Thi...
09/28/2026

Microsoft has removed Teams Events from Teams Premium. If you bought it for events, your renewal will be a downgrade.

This week, MC1479512 was made available worldwide. The Teams Events features are now divided into two categories:

1. The Foundational category includes the Business, Frontline and student Education plans.
2. The Advanced category requires Teams Enterprise, that is, Office 365 E1, E3, E5 or Microsoft 365 E3, E5, E7.

The new Teams Premium licence sits in neither category. Most event features moved to Teams Enterprise in April, so the Premium licence you buy today includes none of them. If you bought before 1 April, you're covered until your term ends. The change takes effect at renewal, not rollout.

Capacity has changed: Foundational plans allow 1,000 registered attendees, Advanced plans 3,000. For more, you'll need an Attendee Capacity Pack (5,000-100,000, one per organizer).

The key question is whether the people organizing your all-hands and customer webinars have the right licence, and whether anyone has checked the size of the events already scheduled for Q1.

Two buckets, one expiry date, and no warning at the door.

Compare your organizers with the new tiers before someone finds out in front of 4,000 people: https://hubs.li/Q04yqQFJ0

Microsoft is about to offer 50% off Copilot. You need to commit to 10,000 seats to qualify.Per The Information, Microsof...
09/24/2026

Microsoft is about to offer 50% off Copilot. You need to commit to 10,000 seats to qualify.
Per The Information, Microsoft told its sales teams this week that enterprise discounts start as early as October. Roughly 30% for commitments over 1,000 seats. Up to 50% over 10,000. None of it is published on Microsoft's own price list.

👉Two things worth noticing before anyone gets excited.

1. The 30% tier isn't new. Microsoft has been running a 30% discount for 1,000 to 9,999 seat buys, and that offer expires September 30th. (What's actually new is the 50% tier, and the ceiling it puts on the conversation. The only lever that moves your number is buying more of a product your people may not have opened yet.)

2. The second thing sits underneath the discount. Microsoft's own spokesperson confirmed the model is expanding to combine seat subscriptions with usage-based revenue. Some features in the new Copilot app carry consumption charges on top of the seat price. You get a discount on the line item you can forecast. You pick up a line item you can't.

Under 1,000 seats, none of this reaches you anyway. Your base M365 licenses still went up on July 1st.

Cheaper seats. Metered features. Same invoice trajectory.

If your renewal lands this October, the number that protects you isn't the discount Microsoft offers. It's how many of your seats anyone is actually using: https://hubs.li/Q04ycSwk0

09/23/2026

Microsoft is moving fast from selling seat licenses to aggressive consumption billing. That means enterprises are already being billed for actual consumption and real-time usage metering.

And this isn't just a Microsoft thing. The same push comes from many vendors. Everybody is pushing AI into their products and platforms, and the vendors are all trying to monetize it through token usage or consumption-based usage.

Get full insight here: https://hubs.li/Q04y6-sQ0

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