Whether you are facing an audit, navigating an ELA renewal, optimising PVU costs, or cleaning up sub-capacity compliance — our team of former IBM insiders fights for your bottom line. No IBM partnerships. No reseller conflicts. Every recommendation is built to protect your budget and your leverage.
From licensing assessment and audit defence to ELA renewal, contract negotiation, PVU optimisation, and Cloud Pak advisory — we cover every dimension of IBM commercial complexity.
Comprehensive analysis of your IBM software usage, entitlements, and compliance exposure. We review PVU, RVU, user metrics, ILMT data, and virtualisation configurations to uncover shelfware and over-licensing — delivering a complete picture of your IBM position before any negotiation begins.
Identified $6M in shelfware and PVU over-deployment for a major US financial institution — remediation roadmap reduced annual Software & Support costs by 35%.
We manage every phase of the IBM audit — from initial notification to final settlement. We challenge deployment assumptions, validate ILMT data, and negotiate inflated claims down to real exposure. IBM identifies $82M in licensing exposure. We reduce it to $600K. That is the difference our expertise makes.
Reduced an $82M IBM audit exposure to $600K for a US technology firm by challenging deployment assumptions and validating ILMT data throughout the settlement process.
Do not auto-renew your IBM ELA. We evaluate whether to renew, restructure, or exit — with pricing benchmarks, usage analysis, and a clear commercial strategy. IBM ELAs contain renewal traps, escalation clauses, and commitment structures designed to grow IBM's revenue. We know every one of them.
Saved a global bank $23M by restructuring their IBM ELA and eliminating unused product entitlements across global operations through internal assessment and renegotiation.
IBM wants growth. We want fairness. We benchmark pricing, challenge bundling, negotiate flexibility clauses, and secure terms that protect your budget across Passport Advantage, ELAs, and cloud agreements. Our team includes former IBM employees who know how IBM structures deals, runs negotiations, and prices renewals from the inside.
Delivered $8M in savings on an IBM Passport Advantage renewal by renegotiating PVU rates and eliminating unnecessary Software & Support obligations across the estate.
Align your IBM licence usage with actual business needs. We review PVU configurations, virtualisation settings, Cloud Pak deployments, and sub-capacity reporting to reduce costs without operational disruption. Most IBM customers are significantly over-licensed — our assessments consistently identify 20 to 40 percent in optimisation potential.
Optimised IBM mainframe licensing for Mizuho Financial Group through capacity model restructuring and usage analysis, delivering $71M in savings for one of Japan's largest financial institutions.
IBM's Cloud Paks and hybrid cloud licensing add new layers of commercial complexity. We assess container licensing, IBM License Service data, and Red Hat entitlements to ensure you are not over-provisioned or misaligned with your actual workload deployment. As IBM shifts to subscription and SaaS models, independent advisory is more critical than ever.
Identified $1.8M in over-provisioned Cloud Pak entitlements for a European telco migrating to OpenShift — preventing unnecessary commitment before the migration was complete.
IBM audits are designed to generate revenue. ELA renewals are structured to grow IBM's contract value. Independent advisory consistently reduces exposure by 70 to 90 percent. Tell us your situation.
Real results across audit defence, ELA restructuring, licensing optimisation, and shelfware elimination.
IBM identified $198.8M in licensing exposure. Our team of former IBM specialists dismantled the claim through ILMT data validation and deployment analysis — avoiding the full exposure and settling at a fraction of IBM's demand.
Optimised IBM mainframe licensing through capacity model restructuring and usage analysis, delivering $71M in savings for one of Japan's largest financial institutions through a structured internal assessment programme.
Restructured IBM ELA and identified unused product entitlements across global operations, delivering $23M in savings for Samsung through independent assessment and a targeted renegotiation strategy.
IBM identified $82M in licensing exposure across mainframe and distributed environments. Our team challenged deployment assumptions and ILMT data throughout the audit process, reducing the final settlement to $600K.
Comprehensive assessment identified $6M in IBM shelfware and over-licensed PVU deployments, with a remediation roadmap that reduced annual Software & Support costs by 35% going forward.
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No IBM partnerships. No reseller conflicts. Every recommendation is built to protect your budget and your leverage — not IBM's revenue targets or IASP programme goals.
Our team includes former IBM employees with over 200 years of collective experience. We know how IBM structures deals, runs audits, and prices ELAs — and we know how to counter every tactic.
PVU, RVU, ILMT, sub-capacity, Cloud Paks, Passport Advantage, ELAs, mainframe licensing — we know every IBM licensing model and how to optimise each one for maximum savings.
From licensing assessment and compliance review to audit defence, ELA renewal, contract negotiation, and Cloud Pak advisory — we cover every phase of the IBM commercial relationship.
Fixed-fee retainer or Pay When We Save contingency. Under contingency, we are paid only on verified savings. Our commercial interest and yours are identical from the first conversation.
$198.8M avoided. $71M saved for Mizuho. $23M saved for Samsung. $82M audit reduced to $600K. These are not typical outcomes — they are representative of what independent expertise consistently delivers against IBM.
Guides, playbooks, and tools for procurement and IT teams managing IBM commercial complexity.
Every IBM licensing guide, audit defence playbook, ELA renewal strategy, and ILMT resource in one place — organized by product line and licensing model.
Explore the Hub →A step-by-step guide to managing an IBM software audit — from the first notification letter through ILMT validation, claim challenge, and final settlement negotiation.
Download the Playbook →Estimate your IBM licensing exposure and optimisation potential before the engagement begins. Our free tools cover PVU assessment, sub-capacity compliance review, and shelfware identification.
Run a Free Assessment →Whether you are facing an IBM audit, approaching an ELA renewal, or looking to reduce your IBM cost baseline — we work on a fixed fee or contingency basis. Under contingency, you pay only when we deliver verified savings.