Advice and guidance on how to procure IBM licenses. Including: Enterprise License Agreements (ELA), S&S, negotiations, getting discounts, cancelling S&S and agreement restructuring.
Introduction Managing IBM licensing is a challenge for all organizations. The complexity and financial risks are frequently underestimated until there's a license audit that results in a large unbudgeted compliance [...]
Background To buy IBM licenses you will need to enrol in either the IBM Passport Advantage Express (PAX) or IBM Passport Advantage (PA) programs. The IBM Passport Advantage Express (PAX) [...]
“Take advantage of Supporting Products to reduce IBM license costs” When you buy an IBM product (also know as a Program) you are usually buying a collection of products. [...]
Managing your IBM licensing costs and risks is hard enough without having to spend a lot of time searching the internet for the correct information on agreements, products or supported [...]
“Can we reduce or cancel IBM S&S for this product? These 10 checks should give you the confidence to do it” When the annual IBM Support and Subscription (S&S) renewal [...]
What is IBM Business Critical Service Upgrade? IBM Business Critical Service Upgrades are options to extend your Base support (9x5) to Business Critical (24x7) and usually applies to an Appliance. [...]
FCT mentioned anywhere in your IBM license entitlement? You need to dig deeper #itam tips Flexible Contract Type aka FCT is a special and typically older contract type used by IBM. As [...]
