itootechnologies

Welcome to Itootechnologies
  • Doha – Qatar
  • info@itootechnologies.com
  • +974 4432 3214

Software Licensing Advisory, Empower Informed Decisions Through Expert Guidance

Our Services

We offer comprehensive software licensing advisory services focused on compliance, cost efficiency, and strategic alignment. Our expertise enables organizations to optimize their licensing portfolios, streamline contract management, and align software investments with long-term business objectives.

Services We Offered

  • Evaluation of Existing Licensing Portfolio
  • Licensing Transparency and Cost Reduction
  • Contract Evaluation & Optimization Servic
  • Alignment of Software Spend with IT Roadmap
  • Benchmarking RFP and Negotiation Support

Concept Behind The Advocacy Demystifying & Enabling

  • Structuring of Global Software Licensing Contracts
  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
  • Cost Optimization
  • Independent Advisory on Technology Evangelization
  • Governance, Compliance, and Control on Software Licenses
  • Licensing Training

Empower your enterprise with transparent, optimized, and compliant software licensing frameworks aligned with your IT and business goals.

We Are Uniquely Positioned for the Advocacy

Empowering organizations to manage complex software licensing with clarity, confidence, and control.

Holistic Advocacy

Across Multiple OEM/Publisher software licensing contracts that impacts the client budgets significantly

Guaranteed Savings

Guaranteed Savings on Existing/Planned Spends with an Outcome Based Service Fee Model option assuring Full Compliance & Risk mitigation

Unbiased AdvocacyHolistic Advocacy

Delivery approach with total isolation from the OEM/Publisher or the Channel involved

Flexible

Can be engaged at any Stage of the Lifecycle of the Licensing Contract

Knowledge Base

Post delivery, Managed Services through Global Center of Knowledge

Highly Experienced

The Perfect Subject Matter experts with decades of experience serving the finest names in the industry

Need For Licencing Advisory And Cost Optimization Advisory Services

  • Cost Optimization
  • Growing Number of Software OEMs
  • Legal Uncertainty
  • Company Growth
  • Tax Optimized Purchasing
  • Shrinking IT budgets
  • Quick Technology Changes
  • Increasing Client Expectations
  • Process Efficiency and Governance
  • Real Time Compliance across proprietory and open source

Licensing Contract Renewals

  • The earlier the better
  • Engagement Can Also Be Mid-Term Of The Software Licensing Contract
  • Ideally 3-4 months before the renewal (expiry date of the current contract)

One Time New Order

  • M&A
  • Divestitures
  • Adhoc Ordert
  • Upcoming True Ups

Upcoming / Deciding New Contracts

  • Evaluation of Procurement under a New Long Term Contract

Restructuring Of Contracts

  • While planning to restructure existing perpetual licensing contracts to cloud based licensing contracts/models
  • To Incorporate Cloud Based Licensing Models

Dimensions Of Cost Optimizaton

Contract Evaluation

  • Evaluating the type of customer contract & the SKUs in the agreement
  • Licensing Model evangelization – Perpetual vs Subscription vs Cloud

BOM Optimization

  • This includes decision required around products as per various user profiles
  • Workload & Deployment Assessment Reports
  • Aligning the Customer Technology Roadmap to the OEM Licensing Roadmap of 3/5 year

Licensing Exceptions

  • Discount offered
  • Contract term
  • Maximizing Grants
  • Custom profiles
  • Consumption & User Rights

Restructuring Of Contracts

  • Bundling & Un-bundling of Products
  • Evaluation of Alternate technologies to keep the OEM team fair
  • To Incorporate Cloud Based Licensing Models

Price Benchmarking & Negotiations

  • Benchmark discounting against revenue
  • Back-end Rebates transparency
  • Local Accelerators
  • Negotiating on the final BOM for prices & discounts

Price Arbitrage

  • Leveraging massive price differential in base prices in emerging vs developed markets
  • Tax Optimization & Price Arbitrage are other important levers

We Are Uniquely Positioned for the Advocacy

Business Discovery Workshop IT Discovery Workshop – Environment Purchase History and Entitlements (SAM Checkup)

Publisher License Analysis – Product Licensing Specific Workload Optimization Assessment Workload Optimization Assessment

Agreements Discussion – Options, Exceptions, & Scenarios Pricing & Goal Variance Agreement on Final Construct & Commercial Goals

Build Negotiation Strategy & Roles Role plays & Rehearse the Strategy Tax & Price Arbitrage

Contract Closure & Sign off Follow the Sun Global Licensing Helpdesk Managed Services & Asset Management

What We Stay Away From

We do not indulge in becoming just another transaction partner, leaving this to the customer

We ensure Full Compliance while bringing the best out of a contract/deal for you

We respect the authority of the Customer’s SCM / Procurement offices & duly understand their wide experience in engaging with large contracts

We strategically don’t have agreed partnership contracts with any of the OEMs which asks us to drive revenue numbers for them

Offer On The Table

Reduction of Cash Outflow; Guaranteed Savings

Global Software Licensing Contracts Structuring through Scientific model

Alternative Technology Evaluation and Solution Pricing

Build transparency around discounts, negotiations, and exceptions

Build Right Licensing model

Develop flexibility to reduce dependency on contract/lock in

Mergers, Acquisitions, and Divestitures

BOM Optimization (Mid-term / Renewal time)

Compliance and Audit Protection

How We Are Different ? Market Competition

  • Due to their sales targets, they are not able to provide unbiased decisions
  • Mergers, Acquisitions & Divestitures
  • Cost Optimization
  • Independent Advisory on Technology Evangelization
  • Governance, Compliance, and Control on Software Licenses
  • Licensing Training