Seeing the wood through the trees!
I work with lots of Vendors, LSP's, Consultants and Partners and every one has their own idea of the panacea which is obtaining compliance prior to that fateful day that the letter arrives requesting an audit.
Sadly as I recruiter in this space, even I can see the smoke and mirrors that certain tools and service providers state is their key offering to prevent what the Vendors are honing in on ie non compliance.
I read with interest that one of the Enterprise tools has been approved by IBM; rather than focusing on the potential issue, this means that IBM Enterprise users should massively prefer Flexera over Snow and Aspera to ensure they stay ahead of the game - in my view that is a decent bit of one-upmanship in the quest for utopia. I do not blame the Vendor for wanting to ensure that users pay for what they use and reading some of the comments above are almost tantamount to people screaming "that is not fair" - it is quite simple, you committed to the purchase, now comply with the terms!
Biting the hand that feeds IT
