If Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, Adobe, or Broadcom has initiated an audit, the next few steps matter more than the next few weeks. Do not ship data. Do not accept the scope. Get an independent read first.
Verified NYC savings across licensing, negotiations, and audit defense.
Documented reduction range across named public UMS audit-defense proof points.
Shared-savings engagements available when the situation fits.
Send the basics. UMS will route this as an urgent audit-defense inquiry.
The dangerous instinct is to be cooperative before the facts are stable. UMS helps clients slow the process down, rebuild the evidence, and challenge the assumptions driving the initial number.
The first data package shapes the rest of the negotiation. Once you disclose the wrong facts, you spend the rest of the process trying to claw back leverage.
Publishers routinely frame the review in a way that maximizes modeled exposure. UMS rebuilds the fact base before that framing becomes the commercial outcome.
We need the paper trail: agreements, order history, true-ups, prior correspondence, virtualization assumptions, and any usage extracts already shared internally.
UMS can tell you in one call what should not be said, what evidence matters, and where the likely pressure points will be for Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP, Adobe, or Broadcom.
UMS has spent decades reducing claims, narrowing modeled exposure, and helping clients avoid the worst-case purchase strategy publishers want them to accept.
The commercial wrapper changes by vendor. The underlying work does not: reconstruct the license position, challenge the assumptions, control disclosure, and negotiate from validated facts.
Call anyway. UMS is often brought in after the first response, after the scope call, or even after a settlement number has been floated. The position is usually still recoverable if the facts are rebuilt fast.
Yes. Legal counsel covers legal risk. UMS covers licensing facts, deployment assumptions, entitlement reconstruction, and the technical argument that changes the number on the table.
No. Microsoft is common, but UMS also handles Oracle, IBM, SAP, Adobe, VMware / Broadcom, OpenText, and multi-publisher situations where the commercial pressure is just as high.
Immediately. This page is built for active situations where the buyer already has an audit notice, settlement pressure, or an upcoming scoping call and needs a fast response.
Use the intake form above or go straight to the main contact page if you need a longer brief. Either path reaches the same UMS team.
