Hindsight Solutions represents Customers utilizing FileNet-IBM Enterprise Content Management (ECM) software. With over eleven (11) years of hands-on experience and having conducted over 250 FileNet-IBM ECM specific reviews, we are the ECM Industry’s foremost software license and contract knowledge experts who specialize in helping companies:
- Immediately reduce current annual maintenance cost
- Optimize current ECM software investments, while positioning for future growth
- Mitigate the risk and exposure related to software and contract non-compliance (if applicable)
As a part of Hindsight Solutions unique services, we analyze companies overall software license structure, annual maintenance, systems deployments and contracts in an effort to immediately reduce a company’s total cost of ownership while maintaining compliance. Typical customer benefits should result in an immediate 20-30% annual cost reduction above and beyond previously negotiated terms structured by ECM vendors, partners, and in-house staff.
Experience and Credibility
- Proven results in license compliance - Created all policy and procedures for the FileNet-IBM ECM software license compliance program from October 2003 – July 2007
- In-depth product and industry knowledge accompanied by 31 years of assessment and senior management experience
- Conducted over 250 software license reviews in the following industries: Financial, Insurance, Federal, State and local Government, Transportation and Manufacturing
- Experience handling customer and vendor objections – Possess unprecedented understanding of FileNet-IBM ECM customer deployments and how they pertain to FileNet-IBM contracts as well as the current and legacy licensing models in place
- Know how to identify any and all loop holes which may exist
Potential Return on Customer Investment
- Institutional customers audited over the last 24 months could have avoided the $130M collected by the vendor in associated software penalties and costs
- Corporate officers could have confidently validated that their company was in compliance with SOX and SEC requirements
- Customers could have negotiated more favorable license terms and reduced annual software costs going forward