IBM® Pricing Audit
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Service Description
Our IBM Software Pricing Audit is an easy and risk-free way to analyze and restructure your IBM software costs to assure that you pay only what is necessary to meet your needs. ISAM studies your IBM software and invoices to determine the most advantageous pricing metrics and product bundling options to minimize cost and maximize overall value. ISAM clients save an average of 10 percent on their total IBM software invoices after implementing our recommendation.
Key Benefits
- The IBM Software Pricing Audit costs nothing unless we deliver savings.
- This service is simple to initiate by sending ISAM your IBM invoice.
- This service helps you identify critical measures for controlling IBM software costs.
- The IBM Software Pricing Audit helps you license your IBM software in the most cost-effective manner.
- Our service helps you understand and implement SAM best practices.
- Our IBM Software Pricing Audit elevates your company to “best in class” status among data centers of similar size for software pricing.
Collecting Your Data for Analysis
We begin by helping you collect software pricing data and loading it into our Software Intelligence Database. We collect your IBM software data quickly and efficiently from your IBM software invoice. Specific company information is kept in the strictest confidence. ISAM’s Software Intelligence Database has software pricing data from data centers of various sizes (total MIPS) and representing all industries. Our database is the largest and most comprehensive in the software asset management industry and we have developed multiple applications to help clients reduce expenses and manage software assets.
Our Process
- IBM Software Pricing Audits begin with a review of your IBM software invoice.
- We review product lists for functional redundancy.
- We propose a variety of cost-saving scenarios to suggest specific cost savings.
- Scenarios include pricing options based on over 127,000 published prices.
Service Deliverables
- ISAM identifies cost savings within multiple scenarios in the IBM Software Pricing Audit report.
- Our report offers tips for immediate savings.
- ISAM will meet with IBM on your behalf, at your choosing.
- The IBM Software Pricing Audit report offers a functionality duplication list.
- Our report also offers suggestions for SAM best practices and long-term savings strategies.
- Tools to raise your company to “Best in Class” status for IBM software pricing.
Project Timeline
Once the data is received, it generally takes about two weeks (less if requested), to produce the IBM Pricing Audit.
Our Experts
The ISAM team is made up of professionals with unique expertise in software asset management. Our team members have financial expertise, software pricing expertise, database expertise, data center management expertise and they all provide excellent customer service.
Additional Information
Our clients realize the greatest savings when their SAM teams openly share information with ISAM about other changes planned to their environment. For example, when we are made aware of upcoming changes to a hardware configuration, we are often able to make suggestions for additional savings. Check out the IBM Software Pricing Audit case study on our Web site to see a specific example on how we helped a client produce additional savings based on the information they provided us during the analysis stage of our service.