Software vendors don't audit you by accident. They track your downloads, your deployments and your renewals — and they send the letter when they know what they'll find. Kontribute gives you that same intelligence, on your side, before it's too late.
Enterprise software vendors run audit programmes engineered to generate revenue. Their compliance teams track your environment, monitor your downloads, and flag your account long before you receive a letter. Kontribute has operated inside those programmes. We use that knowledge — and it now works entirely in your favour.
Up to 75% of Oracle customers are non-compliant when they first engage an adviser.
Oracle's LMS team doesn't audit randomly — it targets organisations where the data already suggests exposure. A hardware refresh, a cloud migration, a new virtualisation layer: each can silently generate a six or seven-figure obligation. Our advisors have operated inside Oracle's audit and compliance programmes. We know how LMS builds its case — and we use that to dismantle it, before the audit starts or after the letter lands.
7 in 10 IFS customers are non-compliant — and most have no idea.
IFS audits are methodical, metric-driven, and built on contractual clauses most customers have never read closely enough. Our advisors have designed and executed IFS compliance programmes from the inside. We know exactly what triggers an audit, how usage is measured, and where the exposure hides — and we use that knowledge to put you in control before the letter arrives.
Microsoft true-ups routinely run into the hundreds of thousands — often entirely unbudgeted.
Microsoft calls them Licence Compliance Verifications. They routinely run into the hundreds of thousands — sometimes millions — in unbudgeted costs. And your Licence Service Provider, who earns more when you buy more, is rarely the right person to lead your response. We are.
Renewal quotes landed at 150% to over 1,000% higher than the prior bill.
When Broadcom acquired VMware in November 2023, they eliminated perpetual licences overnight and moved every customer to subscription-only. Customers who went in unprepared signed deals they didn't need to. Those who understood their position negotiated. We make sure you're in the second group.
A 12,000-person enterprise now faces a Java bill of over £1M per year.
In January 2023, Oracle scrapped per-processor Java pricing and replaced it with per-employee billing — including every employee who has never touched Java. For most enterprises, that's a cost increase of 3x to 10x. Most still don't know it's coming.
Organisations waste an average of 32% of their cloud spend every year.
That figure has held steady since 2019 — not because the tools aren't there, but because no one with the right commercial lens is looking. We review your cloud licensing consumption across AWS, Azure and GCP: what you're contracted for, what you're actually using, and where the savings are.
Our advisors have operated within vendor licensing, audit and compliance programmes at IFS, Oracle, Microsoft and others. We don't speculate about methodology — we've applied it.
We know what vendors look for, how they score it, and exactly where their claims fall apart. That intelligence now works entirely in your favour.
No resale agreements. No vendor referral fees. No financial relationship — direct or indirect — with the software companies we advise against. We earn nothing from your vendor relationships. Only from improving them.
Engagements close with executed agreements, negotiated settlements and contract language you can rely on — not a report filed and forgotten.
Kontribute has been protecting enterprises from software licence overexposure since 2017. We began as a specialist Oracle audit and asset management practice and now cover IFS, Oracle, Microsoft, VMware, Java and cloud licensing — with the same founding principle: your entitlements, properly understood and aggressively defended, are worth considerably more than most organisations realise.
Our clients span the UK, Europe and beyond. They came to us facing audit notices, surprise renewal demands, and licence positions they didn't fully understand. They left with clarity, savings, and agreements that finally worked in their favour.
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