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The licence half is the visible half. The labour line is the one that does not appear on any invoice.
Integration labour is costed at £35 an hour loaded, which is deliberately conservative — the person doing it is usually more expensive than that.
It totals your per-seat software costs and adds the parts usually left out: integration maintenance, the reconciliation time between systems, and duplicated admin.
The licence total is the easy figure and rarely the largest one.
List each tool with its per-seat cost and seat count. Then estimate hours per month spent moving data between them, reconciling systems, or doing the same admin twice.
That second list is where the real cost is, and it takes an honest conversation with the people doing it.
It will not tell you whether consolidating is right. Fewer tools is not automatically better, and a specialist tool that does one job well is often worth keeping.
It also cannot price the cost of a migration, which is real.
Compare cost per person per year across the two categories. If integration and reconciliation exceed licences, the stack is costing more in people than in software.
Also count the tools nobody uses. Every stack has at least one, and it renews automatically.
Yes — it is usually the larger figure.
No. It gives you the numbers to decide with.
No.
Half an hour on your own figures, and an honest answer about the parts Treepie does not improve.