Know your real position before Microsoft does.
ELP and Exposure Modeling rebuilds your Effective License Position across the whole estate and models your exposure against the rules Microsoft will use. You walk into any SAM engagement, self verification, or formal audit knowing the number, not guessing at it.
Why a model beats a guess
Most organizations only learn their exposure when an auditor tells them. By then the number is on Microsoft's terms, built with Microsoft's counting methodology and Microsoft's data from Azure, Microsoft 365, and management tooling. A SAM tool export does not match that calculation, and Microsoft's calculation governs.
We build the position the way the auditor will, then we stress it. We reconcile deployment against entitlement, credit every right you actually hold, and locate your unlicensed share against the 5 percent clause that adds licenses at 125 percent of price when use crosses the line. The result is a model you can act on, quarter by quarter, instead of a surprise.
How the engagement runs
Rebuild deployment
We reconstruct what is actually deployed from the same sources Microsoft reads, not from a single inventory tool.
Reconcile entitlement
We assemble the full entitlement record, including downgrade rights, transfers, and prior agreements that the draft would miss.
Model the exposure
We calculate your unlicensed share, locate it against the 5 percent line, and price the gap under standard and 125 percent terms.
Set the defense
We hand you a documented position and a response plan so any audit or true up starts from your evidence, not theirs.
A worked exposure model
The table below shows how rebuilding a position can move an estate across the 5 percent line, which is the difference between a standard purchase and a penalized one.
| Line | Before modeling | After modeling |
|---|---|---|
| Total licensable use | 10,000 | 10,000 |
| Entitlement evidenced | 9,150 | 9,680 |
| Unlicensed share | 8.5% | 3.2% |
| 5 percent clause | Triggered, 125% price | Not triggered |
Figures are indicative and chosen to show the mechanism. Real estates vary. The gain comes from crediting rights the customer already holds but had not evidenced.
We reduce your exposure, or you pay us nothing.
The opening position almost always overstates what you owe. If our work does not reduce your modeled Microsoft exposure, we reimburse our service fee in full.
- No reduction, no fee, we pay our service fee back
- Gainshare means you pay only from verified savings
- We never take vendor money, only your side of the table
Two ways to engage, no downside
Fixed Fee
- One agreed number, no surprises
- Best when the estate scope is known
- Reimbursed if we do not reduce exposure
Gainshare
- You pay only from what we remove
- Reduce nothing, owe nothing
- No risk to you, by design
Model the exposure before the auditor does.
We sit between you and Microsoft and its appointed auditor, and we never take vendor money. Start with a clear picture of your real position.
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