IBM audit defense, built on your side first.

An IBM audit opens with a request for deployment data, almost always before you have validated your own position. Hand it over raw and you let IBM frame the findings: full-capacity charging where sub-capacity should apply, PVU values counted against peak cores, and entitlement offsets quietly left out. The deployment data collection tool reports what is installed, not what you are entitled to run, and the gap between those two numbers is where the exposure is manufactured.

• Contain the request. Nothing reaches IBM until it is scoped, curated and defensible. We manage the clock and the channel.
• Reconcile the estate. We run an independent PVU and RVU recalculation for every product in scope and validate sub-capacity eligibility against your ILMT data.
• Apply the rules by hypervisor. Virtualization counting is applied correctly by technology, so you are not defaulted to full capacity by assumption.
• Build the position. We assemble entitlement evidence, Proof of Entitlement records and offsets into a defensible compliance picture before IBM presents its draft.
• Hand off to negotiation. The defense work becomes the evidence base for challenging findings line by line.

• An independent effective license position you can defend
• A curated, scoped data response to the IBM request
• Sub-capacity eligibility validated against ILMT evidence
• An entitlement and offset ledger ready for the challenge phase