Software licensing advisory across APAC and the Middle East, served from our Dubai office. We negotiate renewals and defend audits across 11 vendor practices, paid only by you.
Redress Compliance provides software licensing advisory across APAC and the Middle East from our Dubai office, which serves the Middle East and Asia. We negotiate renewals and defend audits across 11 vendor practices, 100 percent buyer side, for a fixed fee or 25 percent of savings. Expect a verified baseline first, then a lower price or a smaller claim.
We advise CIOs, CFOs, procurement leaders, and IT asset managers before and during renewals, audits, and migrations. Engagements are led from Dubai, with the Fort Lauderdale headquarters and the Dublin office adding coverage where contracts or teams sit elsewhere.
The senior people on your engagement are named up front, and the partner who scopes the work is the partner who runs it. See the full management team.
Enterprises in Asia Pacific and the Middle East bring us in at three moments: when an audit letter arrives, when a major renewal or certification is on the calendar, and when a vendor changes the terms. Earlier is better in every case.
An engagement runs in four steps, from a scoping call to a reviewed contract. For an audit, the first step also sets a communication protocol, so no data reaches the vendor before it has been reviewed.
You receive six working documents, each written for your team to use with the vendor. They stay yours after the engagement ends.
Three published outcomes for enterprises in Asia and the Middle East, each with the number stated on the case study page and each linked to it.
More outcomes, across every vendor practice, are on the case studies page.
Engagements in the Middle East and Asia are served from our Dubai office. Fort Lauderdale is the group headquarters, and Dublin covers our clients across Europe.
See all three offices on the locations page, or contact us with the vendor and the deadline.
We charge a fixed fee, scoped to the work and agreed up front, or a success fee (gainshare) on negotiation engagements of 25 percent of what we save you. You keep 75 percent, and if we save nothing, you pay nothing. We never bill by the hour.
For standing coverage between major events, Vendor Shield is an annual subscription quoted on estate size. It keeps benchmarking, renewal preparation, and audit defense running across the year.
An independent advisor is paid only by you, which matters most when the job is price, terms, or an audit settlement. A Big Four firm, a reseller, and your own team each fit other jobs well.
Four ways to get licensing help, compared
| Question | Redress (independent) | Big Four consultancy | Reseller or vendor partner | In house team |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Independence | Paid only by the buyer | Paid by the buyer, often alongside vendor alliances | Paid partly through the vendor relationship | Fully aligned with the business |
| Conflicts of interest | No vendor affiliations, resale, or referral fees | Possible where the firm implements or audits the same products | Margin grows with the deal | None, though budgets and politics apply |
| Vendor specific experience | Partners from inside the vendors, across 11 practices | Broad, strongest on implementation | Strong on products and ordering | Strong on your estate, narrow view of other deals |
| How fees work | Fixed fee, or 25 percent of savings, never hourly | Often time and materials | Built into the product price | Salaries and tooling |
For a deeper look, read the independent licensing advisor vs Big Four comparison and the guide to choosing a software licensing advisor.
Four vendor changes from 2025 and 2026 reach most enterprise estates at the next renewal. Each one is covered in depth in our research.
Every vendor practice has its own page, with the named lead, the process, and the published outcomes for that vendor.
By vendor: Oracle license management and negotiation services, Microsoft licensing services, SAP licensing services, IBM licensing services, Broadcom VMware negotiation services, Salesforce negotiation services, ServiceNow negotiation services, Workday negotiation services, Cisco negotiation services, AWS negotiation services, Google Cloud negotiation services, GenAI contract negotiation advisory.
By service: Software licensing consultants, Software contract negotiation services, Software license audit defense, Enterprise software renewal services, Software asset management consulting.
Other regions: Software licensing advisory in the United States and Software licensing advisory in the UK.
Yes. Redress Compliance provides software licensing advisory to enterprises in Asia Pacific and the Middle East from our Dubai office. We cover 11 vendor practices, including Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, and IBM, and we are paid only by our clients.
Our Dubai office at Seven Palms Hotels, Palm Jumeirah, Dubai serves our clients across the Middle East and Asia. Group headquarters is in Fort Lauderdale, reachable on +1 (239) 402 7397.
We charge a fixed fee, scoped and agreed up front, or a success fee on negotiation work of 25 percent of what we save you. You keep 75 percent, and if we save nothing you pay nothing. We never bill by the hour.
Yes. Redress Compliance is 100 percent buyer side: zero vendor affiliations, no reseller agreements, and no referral fees. We are paid only by our clients, so the advice is never shaped by a vendor's commercial interest.
Every inquiry gets a reply within one business day, routed to the partner whose region and practice fit. Once scope is agreed and data arrives, the first deliverable typically lands within 10 business days of complete data.
Yes. We build one baseline across the entities that hold the contracts, then negotiate against the vendor's regional and global commercial structure. Offices in Dubai, Dublin, and Fort Lauderdale cover the time zones involved.
We need your contracts and order forms, entitlement records, deployment or usage data, renewal and audit dates, and the vendor's latest proposal or letter. We send a data request list after the first call, and gaps are normal.
No. Your team keeps the chair and every vendor communication. We prepare each exchange, assess every proposal in writing, and review the final contract before signature.
Audit letter, renewal quote, or ULA certification on the desk. Send it to us for a second opinion. We start where you are.
One letter a month. Negotiation moves, audit signals, and price book shifts.