olemus
kattuvate või alakasutatud tarkvaralitsentside rohkus,
enamasti allüksuste koordineerimata hangete tulemusena
= an ever-growing number of licenses for software that either overlap or are underused

ülevaateid
https://d1.awsstatic.com/events/Summits/reinvent2022/PRT032_Taming-software-sprawl-and-demystifying-your-distributed-architecture-sponsored-by-Atlassian.pdf

https://iaitam.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/The-Real-Cost-of-Unused-Software.pdf

tõrje
https://biztechmagazine.com/article/2018/05/how-conquer-software-sprawl-your-business

https://itbrief.com.au/story/how-to-defeat-software-sprawl-with-efficient-document-management-tech