IBM Audit Defense
Stay one step ahead of IBM and its license compliance audit firms.
High impact audit expertise
IBM periodically audits its customers through third parties such as KPMG and Deloitte. These audits can be disruptive and sometimes lead to significant license compliance exposure. We provide immediate support, helping you to navigate the audit process to ensure optimal results, whichever audit phase you are in.
Many organizations unknowingly face license compliance risks far exceeding their annual spend. We can help reduce any license shortfall value by more than 90%, even when the audit firm has already shared the draft audit report.
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The Benefits of IBM Audit Defense
Manage the timeline
During our IBM audit support process, we do whatever we can to take the pressure off your organization by pushing back the audit dates where needed, so you have the time and peace of mind to make well-considered decisions.
Streamlined audit process
IBM audits can often take up to two years. Our extensive technical audit experience reduces the effort required to navigate the audit process.
Avoid future non-compliance
If your organization does need to pay a settlement, we strive to tailor this investment to your future IT environment, by ensuring it fits within your medium-term IT strategy, helping to avoid future non-compliance.
Risk mitigation
We align each recommendation with Microsoft’s licensing requirements, giving organizations confidence in their compliance position.
See the results for yourself
We work with a variety of IBM customers, across a wide range of industries and specialisms.
By relying on our vast experience, our clients achieve tangible cost savings and real results, every time.
Energy & utility
This project started by coordinating audit information collection from 50+ stakeholders in a large and complex organization. We mitigated ILMT deficiencies during their audit and collected evidence to support the client during their audit report negotiations.
We reduced the client’s risk from $140M to $8M in the final settlement.
Retail & trade
In this pre-audit support + audit support project, our experts conducted an initial risk assessment that conducted that the client’s full capacity risk was $38M. By helping them to implement ILMT and audit support, we brought their final settlement down to $400k (a 99% risk reduction).
Financial services
We performed a second-opinion review of a KPMG audit report, and supported with the client’s subsequent negotiations with IBM.
Through this process we fully mitigated $3.1m in fees that were incorrectly claimed by IBM, resulting in 100% risk mitigation.
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