Mining & utilitiesEnergy

$38,000 a year in duplicate licences

An Australian energy company used Subble to check which software accounts belonged to the same employee. In Asana, 60 people had a paid account under both their old and current email addresses. The duplicate licences cost about $38,000 a year across their software subscriptions.

~$00k: annual cost of duplicate licences

60 people, 120 Asana licences

Each of these employees had an Asana account under their old email address and another under their current address. Both accounts had the same Enterprise licence assigned. Subble matched the two accounts to the same employee, identifying 60 duplicate licences.

Current email address

Enterprise licence

Previous email address

Duplicate licence

Both accounts belong to the same employee

The 60 extra licences cost about $19,800 a year.

The duplicates extended beyond Asana

One employee had four Salesforce accounts, with three extra licences costing about $8,800 a year. In Miro, eight people had 18 accounts between them, each with a paid Full licence. The ten extra licences cost about $3,400 a year.

Adobe accounts across several consoles

Some employees appeared in separate Adobe consoles under the same email address. One had accounts on both the company and agency domains. Shared accounts used by field crews had also been duplicated under the new domain. The extra Adobe licences cost about $5,600 a year.

Annual cost of duplicate licences

Product	Annual cost
Asana	$19,800
Salesforce	$8,800
Adobe	$5,600
Miro	$3,400
Lucid Suite	$380
Smartsheet	$320

Subble keeps finding duplicate licences

Subble found about $38,000 a year in duplicate licences. For each duplicate, Subble showed which employee the licence belonged to and the cost of the extra licence. Subble checks for duplicate licences after every sync, so a new duplicate shows up as soon as it appears.