Friday, 26 February 2010 16:24 | 
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| | A Practical Guide to Surviving a Software Audit
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Don’t wait until you are audited to experience the common audit response pitfalls and vendor practices designed to ensure you are found out of compliance.
In the current economic climate, software vendor audits are a new reality as vendors seek every opportunity to mitigate tumbling revenue streams.
As an executive, there are few situations that are more concerning, frustrating, and costly then going through a software audit. Many organizations find themselves at the mercy of the vendor and feel powerless to effectively respond to their demands.
While some vendors preparations and data collection activities begin up to a year in advance; companies seldom have more than days or weeks to respond. The result; most companies are routinely and often unnecessarily manipulated into paying more money to software vendors than they should.
Scott Fuzer and Mark Miller will walk you through how to organize your team and what you need know in order to successfully respond to and remain in control of the audit outcome. Additionally, they will provide real world case studies; including one organization that recently paid almost $400k in true-up costs when found out of compliance, but really were not. Unfortunately, this company contacted us after settling with the vendor; don’t let this happen to you!
This webinar draws on the many years of experience of West Monroe Partners, a leading business and IT management consulting organization, in preparing companies for software audits.
With software audits now an inevitable part of daily life of IT, can you afford not to attend this brief and free, educational webinar?
As an executive, there are few situations that are more concerning, frustrating, and costly then going through a software audit. Many organizations find themselves at the mercy of the vendor and feel powerless to effectively respond to their demands.
While some vendors preparations and data collection activities begin up to a year in advance; companies seldom have more than days or weeks to respond. The result; most companies are routinely and often unnecessarily manipulated into paying more money to software vendors than they should.
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| Scott Fuzer ITAM Practice Lead West Monroe Partners | Mark Miller VP Operations Scalable |
Scott Fuzer and Mark Miller will walk you through how to organize your team and what you need know in order to successfully respond to and remain in control of the audit outcome. Additionally, they will provide real world case studies; including one organization that recently paid almost $400k in true-up costs when found out of compliance, but really were not. Unfortunately, this company contacted us after settling with the vendor; don’t let this happen to you!
This webinar draws on the many years of experience of West Monroe Partners, a leading business and IT management consulting organization, in preparing companies for software audits.
With software audits now an inevitable part of daily life of IT, can you afford not to attend this brief and free, educational webinar?
Learn what you need to know as an executive so your team can effectively respond to an audit and ensure you are in a position to eliminate the wasted funds paid to software vendors in the form of penalties, true-ups, and ongoing maintenance fees.
West Monroe Partners and Scalable software are partnering to help you efficiently and successfully prepare for these audits.
West Monroe Partners and Scalable software are partnering to help you efficiently and successfully prepare for these audits.