25+ years on both sides of the audit table. We know how publishers calculate, where the gaps live, and how to close them. Give us 30 minutes. Zero upfront. Paid only on results.
Verified, named-client outcomes. No category averages, no rounded composites.
We spent years running audits for software publishers. Now we use that insider knowledge to defend you. That's why the world's largest organizations have trusted us for decades, not months.
Complex licensing, auto-renewals, and vendor-designed opacity extract 20-30% more than you should be paying. For every $10M, $2-3M is invisible waste.
Enterprise licensing is designed to be opaque. Even well-managed IT teams miss savings because vendors profit from that complexity. Wrong SKUs, over-provisioned tiers, and unused subscriptions compound silently every quarter.
They love to give you a 200-page book of recommendations. They don't love staying to do the work. We used to run the audits for publishers. Now we defend you with insider knowledge of every tactic they'll use.
Verified, realized cash savings on your P&L. No cost-avoidance projections, no shelf-ware reports. Shared savings means we only earn when you save. No upfront fees, no retainers, no risk.
Our experts manage the entire process end-to-end, from spend analysis to vendor negotiation to verified implementation. You stay focused on the business; we run the work.
Software, cloud, telecom, and hardware. We find savings everywhere your IT estate is leaking, not just inside one vendor or one renewal cycle.
We identify your biggest savings opportunities at no cost. You'll know exactly where the money is hiding.
Our SAM/ITAM specialists review your contracts, licenses, and usage data against market, vendor, and operating context.
We map waste where it actually lives: unused licenses, over-provisioned cloud, above-market pricing, telecom plans nobody owns, and compliance gaps.
Armed with 25+ years of vendor intelligence, we negotiate directly with Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce, SAP, and 200+ other vendors.
Savings aren't theoretical. We ensure every optimization is implemented, documented, and audit-ready.
Already done internal optimization? We specialize in finding the savings your team can't reach. Our second-pass optimization consistently uncovers more.
Most clients start with shared savings because it carries no upfront risk. Where the work is project-shaped or operational, fixed-fee or staffing fits better. We pick the model that matches the work, not the other way around.
Audit defense, license optimization, renewal negotiation, and contract work where the savings can be measured cleanly against a baseline.
No savings, no fee.
M365 assessments, ServiceNow SAM Pro implementation, M&A due diligence, and SAM/ITAM operating model design.
Predictable scope, predictable cost.
Teams that need experienced SAM, licensing, or vendor-management capacity without expanding headcount.
Run the program with us next to you.
/ Verified client savings to date · $1.3B+ across 2,400+ engagements · $0 upfront on shared-savings work
Specialized expertise across software, vendor, and facilities spend.
Oracle, Microsoft, Salesforce, and more. We know every licensing loophole and contract pitfall. Get fair terms and pricing.
Facing a Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, or SAP audit? We've reduced audit claims by up to 78%. Deep licensing expertise and aggressive negotiation protect your position.
Microsoft audit defense for EA, M365, SQL Server, Windows Server, SPLA, and true-up pressure. Control data, validate entitlement, and negotiate from evidence.
Oracle audit defense for Java, database, middleware, and infrastructure estates. Reduce exposure, control the data flow, and negotiate from a defensible position.
IBM audit defense for PVU, sub-capacity, middleware, and enterprise software estates. Validate entitlements, fix measurement gaps, and negotiate the outcome.
ServiceNow SAM Pro implementation, rescue, and optimization for teams that need normalized data, useful workflows, reclamation, and reporting that actually runs.
Quick wins in as little as 2-3 weeks. Free initial assessment to identify immediate savings opportunities across your Microsoft estate.
Enterprise Agreement renewal support for Microsoft estates. Right-size licenses, model true-up exposure, and negotiate from a fact base instead of a vendor quote.
Software license optimization for Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, VMware, and SaaS estates. Right-size entitlements, eliminate waste, and improve vendor leverage.
Managed SAM and ITAM execution for teams that need more than dashboards. We help you prioritize renewals, defend audits, right-size licensing, and run the program.
Right-size, renegotiate, and eliminate redundant services. Azure and AWS optimization that delivers real savings.
Azure cost optimization for reservations, hybrid benefit, right-sizing, and workload cleanup. Cut waste, tighten governance, and improve renewal leverage.
AWS cost optimization for Savings Plans, Reserved Instances, right-sizing, and waste cleanup. Reduce spend without degrading workload performance.
We've stopped deals over $10M exposures. We've also saved them. Know exactly what you're acquiring before you close.
Line-by-line telecom audits, mobility and wireless savings, Teams/Zoom/Webex integration, and legacy service elimination. Find waste hiding in your telecom spend.
Broadcom's acquisition of VMware is driving 2-10x cost increases. We help you evaluate alternatives, negotiate renewals, and migrate to cost-effective platforms.
Lease renegotiation, vendor optimization, and energy savings for facilities portfolios. Zero upfront fees, paid only on results.
UMS has been an invaluable partner in managing our software costs - across multiple administrations, multiple agencies, and over $800M in cumulative savings.
We thought our Microsoft estate was optimized. UMS found over $5M in savings across 16,000 users - and completed the assessment in under two weeks. No disruption, no drama, just results.
A hardware upgrade created a hidden $7.11M SQL Server licensing exposure. UMS reduced the final cost to $1.44M - zero re-deployment effort, zero downtime.
During a critical acquisition, UMS uncovered software liabilities that would have been a disaster post-close. As we scaled from 2,000 to 30,000 employees, they kept optimizing at every stage.
Got questions? We've got answers. Here's what to know about working with UMS.
If we don't find savings, you don't pay. For shared-savings engagements, the fee is tied to documented savings - if the agreed savings outcome is not produced, the shared-savings fee does not apply.
Large consulting firms can be useful for broad strategy and transformation work. UMS focuses on a narrower operating problem: turning software, cloud, telecom, contract, and usage data into savings, renewal leverage, audit defense, and an ongoing cost-control cadence.
We can quantify savings potential in as little as 2 weeks. M365 assessments in 2-3 weeks. Full SAM programs in 90-180 days depending on complexity. We work at your pace and prioritize quick wins.
City of New York ($800M+ saved over 25 years), Fortune 500 enterprises, federal agencies, international retailers, and mid-market companies across 25+ years of experience.
We cover 200+ software publishers and cloud/technology providers including Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce, ServiceNow, VMware, SAP, Adobe, IBM, AWS, Cisco, and many more. If it's enterprise software, we know it inside and out.
No. UMS works with enterprise, government, public-sector, private-equity-backed, and mid-market organizations. The right fit depends less on company size and more on whether software, cloud, telecom, renewal, audit, or asset-management costs are material enough to justify action.
When a project fits the shared-savings model, UMS documents a baseline, executes the savings work, and is paid from a pre-agreed share of verified savings. Some work is better handled through fixed-fee, hourly, staffing, or mixed delivery models.
Audit defense is one of our core specialties. We've reduced audit claims from $35M+ down to $7.5M for enterprise clients. We protect you during audits, challenge inflated claims, and negotiate from deep technical expertise.
We offer shared savings where the outcome can be measured cleanly, plus fixed-fee projects, hourly support, staffing, and mixed models for point-of-pain work such as M365 assessments, publisher audits, ServiceNow implementation, and SAM/ITAM operations.
Cost avoidance is a theoretical projection - 'you might have spent X.' Realized savings is verified cash impact - money that stays in your budget or comes off your invoice. UMS delivers realized savings: documented, auditable reductions in what you actually pay. We don't pad our numbers with soft estimates. Every dollar we claim is a dollar you can see on your P&L.
The opposite - it makes your team look like heroes. Every enterprise has licensing waste; it's a function of publisher complexity, not IT competence. CIOs who partner with us get credit for proactively finding savings and reducing audit risk. We work collaboratively with your team, not around them, and position all findings as opportunities rather than failures.
A real million dollars. The same way we've saved $800M+ for the City of New York. If we can't show you where the savings are, we won't waste your time.
/ We only win when you win
Shared savings, paid only on results. No upfront cost. No retainers. No risk.
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