2020 IBM Licensing Training Course – Florida, US (March)

Tuesday 17th March 2020
USF St. Petersburg 200 6th Ave South St. Petersburg, FL 33701

Tuesday 17 March 2020

About this event

Come and spend a day learning about what’s new in the world of IBM licensing at our IBM Licensing Training Course.

IBM licensing complexity has always topped vendor charts. With many large businesses still heavily dependant on IBM datacentre software technology, it is essential that its licensing can be clearly understood, tracked and controlled.

This full-day course covers all aspects of IBM licensing with a focus on compliance and contract optimisation. The foundation part of the course provide a comprehensive introduction to the key IBM licensing concepts and mechanisms, while the Practitioner part of the course allows participants to gain hands-on experience in tackling some of the real world challenges in IBM license management.

Topics will include:

IBM Agreements and Contracts
Proof of Entitlement Records
License Entitlement Metrics
Processor Value Unit Licensing
Sub-Capacity Licensing and ILMT
User-based Licensing
Resource Value Unit Licensing
Baseline Effective License Positions for IBM software
Managing IBM License Compliance Audits
Enterprise Agreement (ESSO/NGSA) Negotiations

Price:

Full Price: $849 +VAT per delegate

Early Bird Rate : $649 + VAT per delegate (valid until 31st January 2020)

IBM Licensing & 2020 US Wisdom Ticket Bundle Price: $749.00

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More than 3 delegates? Contact us to discuss group booking discounts.

Who should attend

Software Asset Manager’s
Procurement professionals responsible of managing IBM agreements
Technology professionals responsible of managing IBM License Metric Tool
IBM solution architects who wants to optimise licensing cost in his/her design

Agenda

TIME	ACTIVITY
08.30 – 09.00	Registration
09.00 – 11.00	IBM Licensing Foundation Part I
11.00 – 11.15	Refreshment Break
11.15 – 12.30	IBM Licensing Foundation Part II
12.30 – 13.30	Lunch
13.30 – 15.00	Practitioner: Baselining IBM ELP
15.00 – 15.15	Refreshment Break
15.15 – 16.00	Practitioner: Managing IBM Audit
16:00 – 16:30	Practitioner: Managing ESSO/Sapphire negotations

Speakers

Eric Chiu, Managing Director, FisherITS

Eric Chiu leads HW Fisher’s IT Asset Consulting practice (FisherITS) and shares his expertise in software licensing with his clients through various consulting and services engagements.

As a veteran of software licence compliance, Eric has experience in the design and management of Software Licence Compliance Programmes for many of the top-10 software publishers and has led hundreds of enterprise-level licence audits on their behalf. In recent years his focus has been on advising enterprises over strategic and tactical matters in establishing and operating Software Asset Management (SAM) and has provided services to a wide-range of clients from SMEs to substantial enterprise clients.

Katerina Motlova, Manager, FisherITS

Katerina Motlova is a Manager at FisherITS. She manages a team that specialised in delivering IBM licensing related professional services such as IBM licence compliance internal audit, audit defence as well as ILMT implementation and health-checks. Since her start at FisherITS in 2017, she has led projects that have collectively saved IBM clients from audit penalties in excess of £150 million. Prior to joining FisherITS, Katerina was a team leader in the Software Asset Management services team as part of IBM Global Services based in Czech Republic.

Why you should attend

Identify immediate areas of non-compliance and the “easy wins” in addressing them
Learn real-world IBM cost optimisation from case studies
De-mystify complex IBM ESSO/SSSO/Sapphire agreements
Gain readiness and confidence against IBM audits

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