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IBM Contract Knowledge: The Difference between a SAM Guru and a SAM Rookie

IBM Contract Knowledge: The Difference between a SAM Guru and a SAM Rookie

Contract details are where the SAM can save their business or make a huge mistake that makes them look like a rookie

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How to Avoid Buying More Software Licenses
Software Contracts - This is What Stockholm Syndrome Feels Like!

Software Contracts - This is What Stockholm Syndrome Feels Like!

Businesses are suffering, conditioned by software contracts vendors to believe they have absolutely no choice but to accept audits, annual charge uplifts.

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How to Reduce IBM Support Costs Using Third-Party Support

How to Reduce IBM Support Costs Using Third-Party Support

Although IT budgets have been increasingly over the past few years, CIOs are expected to make that cash stretch further than ever before.

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5 Reasons Why IBM Clients Switch to Origina

5 Reasons Why IBM Clients Switch to Origina

A big part of what we advocate for Origina is the promotion of choice by campaigning against lock-in practices that dominate the software industry. Read our blog to learn why clients switch to Origina.

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4 Reasons to Review your IBM Legacy Support Contract

4 Reasons to Review your IBM Legacy Support Contract

Cost, reliability, expertise and service are 4 of the main reasons many end-users of IBM hardware/software technology are reviewing IBM Legacy Support contracts. Read our blog to learn more.

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Contract Transparency – It’s Not As Difficult As You Think

Contract Transparency – It’s Not As Difficult As You Think

Software contracts are notoriously hard to understand. But making sense of them is easier than you think. Read our blog & see how easy it is.

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Avoid the Over-Licensing IBM Trap

Avoid the Over-Licensing IBM Trap

The simple solution to licensing coverage is to buy too many licenses. Here are 6 tips for being less wasteful. Read our blog to learn more

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Surviving a Business Software License Audit Failure

Surviving a Business Software License Audit Failure

Eventually your business will fail an IBM audit here's how to survive the fallout

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5 BS 'Facts' About Software Audits Every Thinks Are True
Why Software Audits Are the New Black

Why Software Audits Are the New Black

IBM software audits are not just an exercise in identifying shortfalls as they are also an important source of revenue for Big Blue

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Death, Taxes and Software Audits

Death, Taxes and Software Audits

IBM software audits are inevitable. Eventually a Big Blue bean counter will arrive on site to count your licenses. Be prepared!

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