Deal type

Adobe wants you on named user. Make it pay on your side.

Adobe is pushing every enterprise off device and serial licensing onto named user entitlements. The migration is presented as housekeeping, but it resets your baseline, your counting model, and your leverage. Run it from the buyer side and it becomes a chance to cut cost, not absorb it.

35%
average Adobe cost reduction achieved for clients
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What this agreement is

What a Named User migration really is

A named user migration moves your Adobe licensing from device based or serialized deployment to entitlements tied to individual identities, usually through Adobe admin and your single sign on. Adobe frames it as a compliance and security upgrade, and the technical case is real.

The commercial case is the part Adobe does not volunteer. Migration is the moment your seat count, your product mix, and your discount baseline all get rewritten. If you let Adobe drive it, the new baseline tends to lock in seats you do not use and an uplift you did not need.

Handled from the buyer side, the same migration is the cleanest opportunity you will get to remove shelfware, true down the count, and reset pricing before the new term is signed.

The leverage points

Where the deal moves

i

The baseline reset

Migration rewrites the seat baseline. Set it to real usage and the saving is locked in for the term.

Baseline
ii

Product right mix

All apps seats handed to single app users are the first cost to strip out during the move.

Mix
iii

Discount continuity

Your existing discount does not have to reset upward. We hold the floor through the migration.

Pricing
iv

Timing as leverage

Adobe wants the migration done on its clock. Controlling the timeline keeps the leverage with you.

Timing
Our approach

How we run it on your terms

i

Map the estate

We reconcile entitlements against active identities and usage before a single seat is moved.

Evidence
ii

Right size the move

We migrate only what is used, stripping dormant seats and over rich plans on the way.

Plan
iii

Hold the pricing

We carry your discount floor and benchmark the new baseline against comparable deals.

Leverage
iv

Close it clean

We document the new entitlement, cap the uplift, and secure swap rights for the term.

Close
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Where this connects

Global team planning a software licensing migration in a meeting room
Technology

Global firm migrates to named user without a budget rise

0%net cost increase on a full named user migration
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Being moved to named user on Adobe's terms?

Book a Negotiation Review before you sign the migration. We reset the baseline to real usage and hold your pricing through the move.

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