We know how frustrating it is to go through a software True-Up.
Relieve Budget Anxiety
Get a visual of your SQL Server environment before they do.
Discover, trend, and analyze the cost drivers of SQL Server licenses.
We’re just like you: protecting your data’s security.
Reduce Security Concerns
Regularly perform on-premise, agentless audits to proactively uncover vulnerabilities and security gaps in both known and unknown instances.
Enhancing your competitive edge is our focus.
Unlock Modernization
Focus on the future through the lens of SQL Server license optimization.
Understand your organization’s needs – not just today – but also in the future.
“UpSearch’s assessment delivers tangible results for our organization each quarter. It helps us unlock significant cost savings, over $335,000 last year alone, and operational efficiencies in our SQL Server environment. The assessment helps us do more and spend less, maximizing the value of our SQL Server investments.”
“The Data Estate Assessment plays a crucial role in enhancing the security of our SQL Server environment. I use the assessment quarterly to uncover vulnerabilities and keep track of SQL Server installations across our company. It saves me time, helps strengthen our security, and mitigate risks.”
Introducing FinOps for SQL Server Licenses with NO Telemetry
Designed for professionals involved in the procurement, maintenance, strategic planning, or oversight of SQL Server operations.
An unparalleled license and risk management solution, the Data Estate Assessment is the World’s Most Useful SQL Server Assessment. With its security-first approach and client-driven features, it sets a new Financial Operations (FinOps) standard for SQL Server Licenses. Powered by modern and proprietary technology, this assessment offers unmatched effectiveness in eliminating uncertainty surrounding SQL Server license usage.
Discovery
Identify all instances of SQL Server within your organization’s environment.
Trend Analysis
Track cost drivers over time to identify patterns and plan for future needs.
License Compliance
Ensure alignment with licensing agreements and identify any potential compliance issues.
Risk Assessment
Identify vulnerabilities, potential security risks, and areas for improvement.
No Telemetry
On-premises, agentless desktop application does not transmit data.
User-friendly
The installation setup wizard makes the entire process easy.
Safe
Application is digitally signed, and antivirus whitelisted with small installation footprint.
Encrypted
To protect the confidentiality of your data, the results are encrypted for security.
Confidential Report
Intuitive usage report elevates budget, security compliance, and modernization narratives.
3 Easy Steps to …
Download and Run
Run agentless desktop application to find, verify, and collect information about each known and unknown SQL Server instance.
Analyze Results
We reconcile your results against every known SQL Server build, pricing guide, and proprietary libraries to create an intuitive usage report.
Get Enterprise-wide Clarity
Know for certain what they’ll find, protect sensitive data with regular audits, and focus on the future through lens of license optimization.
Get Enterprise-wide Clarity into Your SQL Server License Usage
(at an affordable price)
Quarterly Plan
This flexible plan requires no long-term commitment and includes unlimited assessments. Ideal for preparing your organization’s software True-Up, the Quarterly Plan enables informed decision-making about your SQL Server environment for only $4,000.
Annual Subscription
For organizations with ongoing compliance needs or expansive SQL Server environments, our Annual Subscription is the ideal choice. For $12,000, you receive unlimited assessments, allowing you to conduct audits at your own pace.
Join the Priority Wait List
Before public availability slated for Q3 2024
Since 2019, UpSearch’s Data Estate Advisory Service has provided clients with enterprise-wide clarity into their Microsoft SQL Server license usage. We’re excited to make this service available as a standalone offering, extending its benefits to organizations like yours. Join our priority waitlist for exclusive early access.
3 Easy Steps to …
Download and Run
Run agentless desktop application to find, verify, and collect information about each known and unknown SQL Server instance.
Analyze Results
We reconcile your results against every known SQL Server build, pricing guide, and proprietary libraries to create an intuitive usage report.
Get Enterprise-wide Clarity
Know for certain what they’ll find, protect sensitive data with regular audits, and focus on the future through lens of license optimization.
Get Enterprise-wide Clarity into Your SQL Server License Usage
(at an affordable price)
90-Day Access
This option includes unlimited assessments for up to 90-days, which is typically ample time to prepare your organization for its software True-Up. The investment for this truly distinctive perspective about your unique SQL Server environment is only $4,000.
Annual Subscription
For organizations with ongoing compliance responsibilities and/or sprawling SQL Server environments, our annual subscription is the ideal choice. This $12,000 investment includes unlimited assessments so you can continually audit at your pace.
Quick Start Guide
The Data Estate Assessment relies on UpSearch’s proprietary SQL Server inventory tool (“Tool” or “Application”). The Tool is an on-premises, agentless desktop Application with a small installation footprint. The digitally signed and antivirus whitelisted Tool finds, verifies, and securely collects information about each Microsoft SQL Server instance and the underlying Windows Operating System. This includes VM-hosted cloud platform assets, if joined to a domain.
Browse related knowledge base articles for Version History, Setup Guide, Discovery Methods, and Resource Requirements.
What’s the True Cost of Uncertainty?
Operating without a complete understanding of your SQL Server license usage can come at a steep price. It leads to heightened risks, inefficiencies, and the potential for costly software True-Up events. Additionally, it can manifest as inadequate security measures, regulatory compliance challenges, unnecessary resource duplication, and missed opportunities for optimization. And don’t forget the competitive disadvantage you could find yourself in because you didn’t know what was in your SQL Server environment.
Invest in Enterprise-wide Clarity
The Data Estate Assessment provides the clarity you need to be financially responsible and strategic about your SQL Server licenses. Our flexible pricing options align perfectly with your organization’s needs and budget, empowering you to manage the financial aspects of SQL Server licensing affordably.
Quarterly Plan
This flexible plan requires no long-term commitment and includes unlimited assessments for up to 90 days. Ideal for preparing your organization’s software True-Up, this option provides key insights for informed decision-making about your SQL Server environment for only $4,000.
Annual Subscription
For organizations with ongoing compliance needs or expansive SQL Server environments, our Annual Subscription is the optimal solution. For $12,000, you receive unlimited assessments, allowing you to conduct audits at your own pace.
Advisory Services
UpSearch offers the Data Estate Assessment as both a stand-alone service and as a foundation for its Data Estate Advisory Services.
Every Advisory Services Client gets unlimited assessments.
Committed to Your Success
You get ample time for a specific reason: SQL Server license optimization follows an iterative process. You’ll need time after each assessment to implement changes and re-run the Data Estate Assessment.
With each iteration of the Data Estate Assessment, you unlock new insights about your environment. These insights include changes since your last assessment, such as the discovery of new SQL Server Instances and the absence of SQL Server Instances that were previously present. Additionally, you’ll gain valuable insights into two key trends: Total SQL Server Instances and Total Cores by SQL Server Edition.
What’s in The Data Estate Assessment?
The Assessment goes well beyond typical SQL Server inventory tools that only discover instances in your environment. It stands out by uniquely identifying physical and virtual cores, total cores versus paid cores, estimated retail prices, new instances discovered, and instances no longer present since the last assessment. Unlike standard SQL Server inventory tools, it evaluates support eligibility and trends SQL Server instances and cores by edition over time.
Get Enterprise-wide Clarity in 3 Easy Steps
Download and Run
Run agentless desktop application to find, verify, and collect information about each known and unknown SQL Server instance.
Analyze Results
We reconcile your results against every known SQL Server build, pricing guide, and proprietary libraries to create an intuitive usage report.
The Longest Explanation Ever
Or: Why We Made the Data Estate Assessment.
We wanted to help clients be more financially responsible and strategic about managing SQL Server licenses, while ensuring their safety.
The needs of our clients—ranging from preparing for software True-Up events to identifying security vulnerabilities—extended well beyond what standard SQL Server inventory tools offer.
We believe clients deserved an independent and private way to self-audit their license usage, enabling them to manage data sprawl. The process had to be safe, which is why we ensure there is no telemetry involved. The process also had to be accurate, because wherever there is a SQL Server instance, there is likely to be organizational data. And finally, the process had to save them time.
By integrating FinOps principles into SQL Server License and Risk Management, we developed what we consider to be The World’s Most Useful SQL Server Assessment.
As a result, professionals involved in the procurement, maintenance, strategic planning, and oversight of SQL Server operations—including IT leaders, engineers, and administrators—are now better equipped to make informed decisions and maximize their investments.
Relieve Budget Anxiety
The Data Estate Assessment uncovers, tracks, and analyzes the factors influencing the cost of SQL Server licenses.
It surpasses typical SQL Server inventory tools, which often focus solely on software instances. Our assessment adopts an enterprise-wide approach, meticulously examining cost components like physical and virtual cores, total versus paid cores, and support eligibility. Through this assessment, crucial insights are revealed. It also tracks the total instances and cores based on editions over time, providing unmatched clarity for software True-Up decisions.
You can confidently rely on the findings of the Data Estate Assessment as you prepare for your next software True-Up. Armed with both certainty and a deep understanding of the cost drivers associated with your SQL Server license usage, you’ll be well-equipped to make informed decisions.
Reduce Security Concerns
Elevate your organization’s narrative concerning security and compliance with a Data Estate Assessment. Whether influenced by internal best practices or external mandates, our assessment stands as a pivotal instrument in shaping an organization-wide discourse about security and compliance.
While assessing vulnerabilities in known SQL Server instances is crucial, what about the unknown ones? Regular security updates fortify SQL Server’s security. Yet, how frequently are these updates prioritized? Often, they are neglected due to competing priorities.
Furthermore, both internal and external auditors seek certainty that your structured and controlled environment aligns with compliance standards. In the eyes of an auditor, meticulous documentation of compliance processes holds immense significance.
This is where the Data Estate Assessment comes into play. This detective control enhances your internal processes through a lens of SQL Server license optimization. Our comprehensive analysis exposes intricate aspects of each SQL Server deployment – from the installed version to the latest one, while also identifying gaps.
Our Assessment provides a unique enterprise-wide perspective. It reinforces internal control structures, offers an independent accountability layer, and promotes growth through compliance. The Data Estate Assessment is an unbiased third-party SQL Server license usage assessment, further cementing your compliance and security position.
Unlock Modernization
A hallmark of the Data Estate Assessment is its ability to enhance your organization’s security story and unleash its full potential for modernization. Our assessment goes well beyond basic SQL Server discovery tools, diving deep into your SQL Server environment to uncover unique insights about license usage. Whether you’re navigating the realities of support eligibility, optimizing through right-sizing efforts, leveraging the benefits of new SQL Server versions, or smoothly transitioning to the cloud, we provide clear insights for your crucial choices. Count on our expertise as we guide you to embrace modernization with complete confidence and clarity.
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