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With 160 hospitals and healthcare facilities and more than 47,000 employees, Asklepio’s size requires modern solutions for all workstations, whilst avoiding unnecessary costs at the same time. The group was able to save more than 50 percent in costs with used licences from PREO.

After the merger of the two insitutes Fiducia in Karlsruhe and GAD in Münster to Atruvia, the IT service provider went into the cloud. PREO supported Atruvia in merging two extensive licence histories and legal matters. With the help of PREO, over 150,000 licences became legally tradable.

“Together with PREO Software AG, we were able to support Sparkasse in using cheap software, tailored to our requirements.”

ALEXANDER WOLETZ | IT STRATEGY | DSGV

“Collaboration and order handling with PREO Software AG when acquiring used licences were both easy, quick, and conducted in a very professional manner. Highly recommended!”

FRANK RÖDEL | TECHNICAL DIVISION MANAGER | ZEITVERLAG GERD BUCERIUS GMBH & CO. KG

Dorint is a leading 4-star hotel chain in Germany. IT solutions for the hotels, which now total more than 60, are centrally organised by the group’s own service company. Used licences have been growing in importance for years in terms of cost strategy.

“When we buy business software, PREO is our first port of call.”

LOTHAR KERESTEDJIAN | CHAIRMAN OF PRODUCT & BUSINESS DEVELOPMENT | ENTERACTIVE GMBH

Huf is a global automotive supplier with the highest requirements for stability, security and transparency in IT. Following significant price increases at Broadcom, the company made a conscious decision to return to an on-premise solution – and thus to maximum control and self-management of its entire software landscape. ‘We appreciate the structured approach and the high quality of the results. The collaboration was transparent and on equal terms at all times.’

Kreiskrankenhaus Demmin has backed used software since 2015. But there was a little surprise during a licence audit by Microsoft. While 100 percent of licences acquired from PREO were classified as ‘no fault found’, this was not the case for used licences from other sources...

„The unbroken traceability of the chain of title back to the initial acquirer is absolutely essential for us in the context of an audit or a potential onward sale.“
STEFAN BACH | HEAD OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY | ANDERNACH REGIONAL HOSPITAL

The LMT Group manufactures special machines and precision tools with 2,300 employees across 20 locations. Following a big software asset review, the IT department developed a hybrid software landscape for over 2,000 workstations. Integrating used software meant a saving of almost one million euros.

“Magna is involved in licence management on a global level across the group. As part of various merger & acquisition projects, we heavily focus on the recapitalisation of IT product resources. We have found the perfect partner for this in PREO.”

MAG. (FH) PETRA MELBINGER | MBA | GLOBAL LICENSING CONTRACTS (EUROPE) | MAGNA AUTOMOTIVE HOLDING AG

Medius Kliniken is an association with over 3,000 employees at 3 locations. Every year, the company from Baden Württemberg treats more than 46,000 inpatients and 125,000 outpatients. "If I compare the costs of the current purchase with those we would have incurred for the cloud, we have made enormous savings."

DIETMAR ZELINSKI | HEAD OF IT | MEDIUS KLINIKEN

Nehlsen is one of the biggest German waste disposal companies. A few years ago, the task was to harmonise software on 500 workstations at the level of older releases. This is where PREO came onto the scene. There were savings of 265,000 euros in the first step alone.

With almost 5,000 employees, Schüco is a global market leader in windows and facade systems. Before buying used software, the company had lawyers analyse the quality of providers. PREO was awarded the contract as the most secure and transparent provider. Since then, we have provided Schüco with over 2,000 audit-secure licences.

“Dealing with PREO was quick and easy.”

ULRICH BUTZER | IT MANAGER | SÜDDEUTSCHE KRANKENVERSICHERUNG

“Despite our already favourable purchasing conditions, we were able to save nearly 30 percent due to the approach chosen by PREO.”

HUBERT RAUSCH | MANAGER OF CORPORATE IT SERVICES AND EMEA SERVICE COORDINATION | SIEGWERK DRUCKFARBEN AG & CO.

“Stadtwerke Steinfurt GmbH was looking for an experienced partner to acquire used Office licences and found this in PREO Software AG. Including the manufacturer in the licence transfer process was the deciding factor when choosing them as a partner.”

STEPHAN LEBEMANN | IT MANAGER | STADTWERKE STEINFURT

swedex had a cost problem with rental software. Cloud rental software costs would have increased to another 400,000 euros within the following 3 years – with just 280 employees. Thanks to PREO’s services, we were able to bring costs under control.