One side of the table. Yours.
IBM Audit is an independent audit defense and negotiation firm that works for the company under audit, never for the vendor. Established in 2019, we exist for a single moment: the IBM software audit, and the settlement that follows. We are not affiliated with IBM Corporation.
Most firms that touch IBM licensing also resell IBM, partner with IBM, or hope to. That alignment quietly bends every recommendation toward the vendor. We took the opposite position. We do not resell IBM, we do not partner with IBM, and we are not affiliated with IBM Corporation. Our only client is the company facing the audit.
That matters because an IBM software audit is not a neutral fact-finding exercise. It is a commercial motion run by a counterparty with an incentive to maximize the finding. The PVU math, the sub-capacity denial, the bundling interpretation: each is presented as settled, and each is contestable. A firm that needs to stay friendly with IBM will not contest them the way a buyer side firm will.
We sit on your side of the table from the first letter to the signed settlement, and we keep that position even when it is uncomfortable for the vendor.
Four steps, every engagement: Contain. Reconcile. Challenge. Settle.
"They built our compliance position before IBM finished theirs, then challenged the findings line by line. The exposure dropped by over seventy percent."
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