As large firms place ever more critical reliance on software apps and tools, restructure through mergers and acquisitions, and outsource elements of software development and delivery, they face challenges in ensuring that they neither overprovision nor risk failure to comply with the ever more complex software license and entitlement terms of increasingly vigilant software vendors. Following a few simple steps, they can radically reduce risk and simplify processes to pool license entitlements among authorized users, ensuring compliance at all times with their contractual obligations and a more effective return on software investments.