This article has been contributed by Eric Chiu of FisherITS Customers can still be fined for violating IBM’s Sub-Capacity licensing terms even after deploying the ILMT tool. This article takes a look at the areas on which organisations must ...
Firstly, apologies for not writing an article in so long; we’ve been extremely busy dealing with a recent IBM ‘review’. We learnt an awful lot during and post review, and I wanted to share my experiences ...
One striking trend we see in modern audit activity is that software audits are NOT about reducing non-compliance. It is right and proper that a company should protect their intellectual property and prevent exploitation. But it ...
This story of an audit that found its way into court last year is, originally, from 2013 but only recently came to light…and it’s a doozy! What happened? According to a whistle-blower (a former IBM employee), ...
Ahead of our Australian conference in a couple of weeks time I spoke with Eric Chiu of HW Fisher and Glynn Thomas of Software Sense on IBM Licensing and IBM’s current approach to audits (Meet both ...
Eric Chiu is our go to guy on IBM licensing. In this video I picked his brains on IBM software audits. Subjects covered. Who starts an IBM audit? IBM audit activity levels and key targets IBM ...
I recently interviewed Alan Swahn, VP of Product Management at Flexera Software. We discussed IBM Licensing and the IBM audit program. Q. Why IBM? Shouldn’t companies spend more time focusing on Microsoft, Adobe or Oracle audit compliance? ...
What are the most pertinent software vendor results from Q1 2023? Each quarter we are going to give you an overview of the financial results of key software publishers – including the “Big 4” Tier 1 ...
IBM drops a licensing bombshell with major reporting changes coming to IBM Passport Advantage from May 1 2023 Hot on the heels of Oracle’s change to Java licensing IBM have published an update to the Passport ...
Over the next 12 days, the ITAM Review is going to treat you to some daily ITAM insights to carry you through the festive season. Our very own “12 days of ITAM” kicks off with everyone’s ...