An IBM audit letter arrives. The team pulls the ILMT reports to prove sub-capacity licensing held up all along and finds two quarters missing from last year. Nobody remembers why. Someone installed the tool. Someone was supposed to check it. Under…
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As a customer, when you are looking to buy software, you want to get the best possible deal and build a strong relationship with the software provider. However, this can be difficult to achieve if a bad sales rep is working…
Why Keeping a Bad Sales Rep Could Cost You: How to Get a Great Software Deal and Strengthen Relationships
As a customer, when you are looking to buy software, you want to get the best possible deal and build a strong relationship with the software provider. However, this can be difficult to achieve if a bad sales rep is working…
IBM Licensing Costs Tips – Reduce Expenses, Maximize ROI
IBM Licensing Costs: Tips for Lowering Costs and Maximizing ROI Software solutions have become vital for modern businesses to stay competitive as technology evolves. However, software licensing costs have become significant, especially for IT and procurement stakeholders. The challenge has…
IBM Announces New Requirements for License Compliance
IBM Announces New Requirement for Effective License Positions: IBM Passport Advantage Customers Impacted As an IBM Passport Advantage customer, maintaining compliance with your IBM software license agreements is paramount. Recently, IBM announced a new requirement for Effective License Positions (ELP),…
Four Secrets of A Champion CIO
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IBM licensing can easily overwhelm you, with so many different definitions and rules, it’s like learning a more complicated and even nerdier version of Klingon. Where do you even begin? At MetrixData 360 , we pride ourselves in diving deep into…
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With a constantly growing IT infrastructure, it is important to know how your company plans on managing data storage and data management. At MetrixData 360, our customers are taking an interest in IBM’s DB2 and Oracle’s Database, although there seems to…