Vendor licensing audits are profit centers for vendors, not compliance mechanisms. We defend your interests, expose inflated findings, and convert audits into renegotiation opportunities. We've helped clients recover $100M+ in overcharges identified in vendor audits.
Vendor licensing audits come with aggressive discovery requests, inflated compliance findings, and settlement pressure. Most organizations lack the sophistication to challenge audit findings or understand licensing interpretation disputes.
We bring former vendor audit leadership to the defense table. We understand how auditors calculate compliance penalties, where their methodologies are flawed, and which findings can be successfully disputed. We've defended against Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Adobe, and IBM audits.
We don't just defend—we counter-audit vendor conduct, expose licensing misinterpretation, and renegotiate unfavorable terms while you're already in the negotiation room.
We conduct an independent analysis of audit findings to identify overstatement, methodology errors, and contract interpretation disputes. We determine what findings are defensible.
We manage audit discovery requests to provide what's legally required while protecting privileged information. We limit the scope of vendor investigations and challenge unreasonable requests.
We negotiate settlement terms to minimize true-up obligations, challenge penalty calculations, and secure future compliance frameworks that reduce audit risk.
Oracle audit methodology challenges, database licensing interpretation, applications licensing disputes, ULA audit defense, settlement negotiation.
Enterprise Agreement audit defense, Office 365 compliance interpretation, server/CAL licensing challenges, compliance remediation planning.
Named user licensing disputes, usage-based licensing interpretation, support contract audits, compliance remediation and true-up negotiation.
We've defended against hundreds of vendor audits and recovered millions for clients through dispute resolution, settlement negotiation, and post-audit renegotiation. You don't have to accept audit findings—you can challenge them.