The Licence Optimisation Playbook.

Six learning outcomes from completed optimisations.

1. How role mining drives Professional-to-Limited reclassification. The transaction-level analysis that reduces Professional User counts by twenty to thirty per cent on average, with a defensible audit trail.
2. The eight named-user buckets and the rules that decide each one. Professional, Limited Professional, Employee, Developer, Test, Project, Workflow, and Indirect — and the classification mistakes that produce the largest exposure.
3. Bundle conversion and downgrade mechanics. Conversion ratios, ratchet protection, the conversion window, and the contract clauses that determine whether the buyer has the right to downgrade at all.
4. License harvesting from dormant accounts. The 180-day, 365-day, and 730-day dormancy windows, the SAP-acceptable evidence of dormancy, and the reclamation logic for each named-user category.
5. Engine consumption review and metric reconciliation. The data extraction approach for the most common engine metrics, the reconciliation against contract entitlement, and the negotiation room hidden inside the variance.
6. License pool sharing across subsidiaries and affiliates. The contractual basis, the LAW consolidation mechanics, the multi-system counting traps, and the eight clauses that govern pool flexibility.

Seven chapters. Forty-eight pages.

Four audiences. One reference.