Reduce IBM licensing cost, ensure subcapacity compliance, and eliminate licensing risk across ILMT, PVU, and Cloud Pak environments.
Regular assessments to identify and eliminate inefficiencies.
Ongoing adjustments to maximize license utilization and prevent waste.
Proactive monitoring and strategic adjustments to reduce overspending.
Discover new savings opportunities with every cycle.
Savings achieved are reinvested into further optimization.
Optimization services become self-funding over time, continuously driving added value.
Customizable service scope, cadence and vendor focus based on evolving business needs.
Dynamic focus to address unexpected events like audits.
Access to licensing expertise and negotiation support.
Stay audit-ready with proactive license management and vendor compliance.
Establish a detailed view of your current IBM license position and potential compliance exposure.
Validate entitlements, reconcile deployments, and ensure accurate usage data across your IBM environment.
Align IBM licensing with actual consumption patterns and evolving business needs to reduce waste.
Receive expert support during IBM audits and drive favorable outcomes in contract negotiations.
Maintain continuous IBM license compliance and preserve optimization gains over time.
Gain clear visibility into your Effective License Position (ELP), highlighting any areas of overuse, under-entitlement, or unlicensed deployments.
This baseline analysis identifies key compliance risks across IBM licensing models (especially PVU, VPC, and Cloud Pak)and flags ILMT gaps or subcapacity misconfigurations before they become audit issues. It also quantifies potential financial exposure, enabling proactive remediation planning.
Deliverable: License Position Risk Assessment Report
Achieve a cleansed and reconciled licensing position by aligning entitlements with actual deployment across your hybrid infrastructure.
This phase resolves discrepancies between procurement records and deployment data, addresses dormant or misused licenses, and ensures ILMT is configured correctly for subcapacity eligibility. The outcome is a legally defensible license position that supports compliance confidence and simplifies audit readiness.
Deliverable: Effective License Position & Remediation Plan
Drive substantial cost savings by identifying opportunities to reallocate licenses, consolidate product usage, and retire shelfware.
This includes analyzing PVU consumption, consolidating Cloud Pak workloads, and optimizing bundling strategies. The outcome is a leaner, rightsized IBM license estate, eliminating waste, maximizing value from existing entitlements, and avoiding future overcommitment.
Deliverable: License Reallocation & Cost Optimization Strategy
Minimize financial and contractual exposure by proactively managing IBM audit engagements. We provide guidance on documentation, tool outputs (ILMT, BigFix), and technical configurations.
During contract renewals, we strengthen your negotiation position with pricing benchmarks, support for Cloud Pak consumption modeling, and legal review of ELA terms. The result: reduced penalties, better pricing, and a contract structure that reflects your true business needs.
Deliverable: Audit Support Playbook & Risk Mitigation Strategy
Sustain compliance and cost control through continuous monitoring, periodic license reviews, and lifecycle governance.
We implement a management framework that includes renewal tracking, ILMT oversight, change control procedures, and license demand forecasting.
This prevents compliance drift, supports audit readiness year-round, and ensures your IBM estate remains aligned to business growth without triggering unexpected costs.
Deliverable: License Management Framework & Optimization Monitoring
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We run successful projects across multiple organizational sizes, industries, and geographies. On average, companies reduce their contract costs by 32% with
2Data regardless of company size.
LSP’s can be helpful for compliance maintenance, but because they resell vendor licenses there’s an obvious conflict of interest. An independent advisor safeguards your best interests by remaining totally vendor and tool agnostic.
Read our success stories An LSP is there to support you with the operational aspects of your contract. Our focus at 2Data is on helping you reduce costs through market insights, benchmark data, and proven tactics to support you in your contract negotiations separate to your LSP.
Read our success stories This depends on your organizational needs. Most once-off optimizations take between 3-6 months, while our Optimization as a Service offering gives you comprehensive coverage over a longer period.
Read our success stories We use an equitable pricing model that accounts for number of devices/users and geographic considerations. We offer the choice between a flat fee, or a success fee tied to the outcomes of the project.
On average, companies make back 15 times the cost of our services through both realized cost savings and cost avoidance.
2Data is an independent software licensing advisory specializing in Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce and IBM optimization. We help companies reduce contract costs, manage risk, and simplify their software licensing.
Regular assessments to identify and eliminate inefficiencies.
Ongoing adjustments to maximize license utilization and prevent waste.
Proactive monitoring and strategic adjustments to reduce overspending.
Discover new savings opportunities with every cycle.
Savings achieved are reinvested into further optimization.
Optimization services become self-funding over time, continuously driving added value.
Customizable service scope, cadence and vendor focus based on evolving business needs.
Dynamic focus to address unexpected events like audits.
Access to licensing expertise and negotiation support.
Stay audit-ready with proactive license management and vendor compliance.