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SPLA to CSP Migration

Moving off SPLA changes how you license, report, and prove compliance. Done well it lowers your audit profile and protects margin. Done badly it leaves a trail of unreconciled months that an auditor can still reach back into.

We reduce your exposure, or we reimburse our service fee
Hosting provider data center under SPLA audit
We sit on your side of the table, never the vendor's.
95 to 100%
Of penalty exposure defended
$500M+
Microsoft exposure defended
300+
Microsoft and SPLA audits
20+
Years combined

Why the exit itself carries risk

A SPLA wind down does not erase the 36 month lookback. The months you reported under SPLA remain auditable after you move to the Cloud Solution Provider program. That means the migration has to be sequenced as a compliance event, not just a procurement change. The goal is to leave with a clean, documented position for every month you were under SPLA, and to enter CSP with licensing and reporting that match how you actually run.

The trap. Hosters often treat the switch as purely commercial and stop maintaining SPLA reporting discipline during the transition. Those final months are exactly where unsupported figures creep in, and they are still inside the lookback if an audit lands later.

How we sequence it

  1. We reconstruct and lock your SPLA position month by month up to the exit, so the lookback is fully supported before you leave.
  2. We map each customer and workload to its correct CSP licensing, so nothing is double counted or left unlicensed in the cutover.
  3. We keep your reporting discipline running through the final SPLA cycles, so the wind down months are as clean as the rest.
  4. We document the migration itself, so any later question about the transition is answered by evidence, not memory.

Keeping your leverage

A migration is also a negotiation moment. The commitment you are about to make under CSP is leverage, and it should not be spent settling a SPLA question on the vendor's terms. We keep the audit track and the commercial track separate, so you move clouds on your timeline and your numbers.

How we are paid

Two models, both backed by our guarantee. Fixed Fee from $18,000, a scoped number agreed up front. Or Gainshare, a share of verified savings or avoided penalty, with zero retainer and no risk to you. We never take vendor money. We only ever sit on your side of the table.

Related
Sequencing a SPLA to CSP migration The SPLA wind down checklist Compliance continuity during a SPLA exit SPLA Audit Defense

The opening number is not the real number.

Fixed fee or gainshare, both backed by our guarantee. We sit between you and Microsoft and we never take vendor money.

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