Most companies treat software licensing as an admin task — something procurement can handle alongside negotiating coffee contracts. It isn't. A single Oracle audit can dwarf a year's procurement savings. A misread IBM contract clause can cost millions. The skills required to optimise software estates and defend audits aren't peripheral to procurement or IT — they are a discipline of their own.
That discipline is what we practice. Proteam Advisory was founded by senior consultants who had spent careers at the Big Four and the world's best-known SAM consultancies — and who saw, repeatedly, that enterprises were being underserved. Generalists were running specialist work. Junior staff were being shipped onto complex audits. Vendor influence was creeping into "independent" advisory.
We built Proteam to fix that. Many of the people on our team joined us early in their careers — and grew into their expertise here. They didn't arrive as fully-formed specialists. They developed depth through real engagements: sitting across the table from Big Four auditors, navigating Oracle's sub-capacity rules with a CTO, rebuilding a client's IBM estate from first principles. That kind of knowledge isn't imported. It's earned.
What makes Proteam distinct isn't a hiring filter — it's the culture. We invest in our people the way we invest in client relationships: for the long term. Senior consultants mentor junior ones. Every engagement is a knowledge transfer internally as much as externally. The result is a team where the most experienced voices are always in the room — and the next generation already knows how to hold the line.
Today we serve over 500 enterprise clients across India, the UK, the US, the Middle East, and continental Europe. We've led more than 4,000 software compliance reviews. Our clients have collectively saved over $1 billion through our work — and we maintain a 100% client satisfaction record across every engagement.
We work inside whatever SAM tooling you've already invested in. We're vendor-agnostic but vendor-fluent. We anchor engagements to outcomes, not hours. And we offer a free, no-obligation SAM consultation to anyone serious about understanding their current risk position — because we'd rather show our work than oversell it.