IBM has initiated an audit or compliance review? Our team of former IBM licensing specialists manages the entire process — protecting your rights, challenging inflated claims, and preventing IBM from converting an audit into a forced sales event.
Don't respond to IBM without independent representation. We manage all communications, control the scope, protect your data, and ensure IBM follows its own contractual audit rights — nothing more.
If your IBM License Metric Tool isn't properly configured or reporting accurately, an audit could expose significant liabilities. We assess your ILMT setup independently and fix gaps before IBM finds them.
IBM often uses audits to drive sales. If you're being told you need to buy your way out of a compliance issue, we challenge the findings, validate entitlements, and negotiate from a position of knowledge rather than fear.
We take over all communications with IBM's audit team — BigFix, ILMT, or third-party auditors. We control timelines, challenge scope creep, and ensure you share only what's contractually required.
Before IBM analyzes your data, we conduct our own assessment. We identify real compliance gaps vs. IBM's inflated claims, giving you a defensible position from day one.
IBM audit claims are routinely inflated by 50-80%. We challenge every finding — PVU calculations, subcapacity eligibility, virtualization rules, and entitlement interpretations — and negotiate claims down dramatically.
After the audit, we help you implement robust compliance processes — ILMT optimization, entitlement tracking, and ongoing monitoring — so you're never caught off guard again.
IBM's initial audit claim was $12.4M. Redress Compliance challenged the PVU calculations, identified misapplied virtualization rules, and proved several entitlements IBM had overlooked. Final settlement: $1.8M. They saved us over $10 million.
We don't partner with IBM, sell licenses, or take vendor incentives. Our advice is built entirely around your interests.
Our team includes former IBM licensing specialists who know the tactics, tools, and technicalities from the inside.
500+ enterprise clients across 50+ countries trust us to protect their interests in the most complex licensing environments.
Our engagements typically deliver 10-30x return on investment. We save you more — significantly more — than we cost.
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