Whether public or private sector, small, medium and large companies will have to deal with audits.

The most common audit is the annual audit, a light version of an audit also known as a "True-up", usually covering only a small area of your software investment.

The annual audit leaves a window open for software publishers or their external auditors to return to you with a request of an audit on a specific focus area or a full blown audit.

Apart from the annual audit is friendly audits, aggressive audits, merger/de-merger audits and moving to cloud audits.

  

Whereas audits used to be about 10-15% of a software publisher’s revenue, for many of them this is now 45% and more.

If the quarterly, semi-annual or annual figures are low, the publishers audit is quickly intensified.

Further, companies acquire a vast majority of consulting services from software publishers or their resellers which opens the door for them to collect extensive information about their customers including how likely it is they have compliance issue somewhere.

 

Audits are staff and time-consuming, difficult to manage, and often very costly. This is in addition to a higher risk of being audited by other software publishers and a potential damage to your reputation.

Swaacs Audit Support covers the process from A-Z and helps rebalance the shift of power to put you in a position of strength.

We help you communicate with the software publisher to ensure a fair timeline is set and all requirements set out for the audit is met.

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Our Audit Support include:

• A clear overview of your current contract & licensing position

• Compliance analysis

• Risk & mitigation assessment

• Highlights of duplicated license and usage coverage

• Recommended actions for reducing/removing of discovered compliance risks

• Communication, defense and data sharing strategy

• Audit negotiation support

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Via our Audit Support we help you apply the rules in your interest. Ensuring you pay no more than you need to.

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Through our many years of experience, licensing expertise and understanding of the software publishers and auditors, we know their key motivators, we know how they think and what they are looking for, we know the common mistakes and assumptions they make.

This enables Swaacs to deliver best in class audit support.