The Blue-LM SaaS subscription is for experienced SAM professionals who perform IBM license compliance activities on a regular basis. We provide this subscription either as a standalone service or in conjunction with other IBM license compliance services.
Blue-LM
The indispensable tool for IBM license compliance MVPs
Implementation stages
Initial setup
Import your IBM entitlements data and ILMT audit snapshot report to unlock valuable insights into your IBM licensing estate.
Generate reports
Take an in-depth look at detailed software and licensing information across all of IBM’s commercial offerings. Our data repository is refreshed on a weekly basis.
Monitor compliance status
Monitor your IBM license compliance position based on current entitlements data, ILMT audit snapshot reports and non-ILMT deployment quantities from our automatically generated audit templates.
Third party support
Blue-LM is the tool of choice for SAM consultants to provide efficient and comprehensive IBM license compliance advice to your customers.
Key benefits
One-stop shop
Find all key IBM licensing information within a single web portal, including LI documents, announcements letters, pricing, audit templates, support information, bundling relationships and part number replacements.
Automation
Save time on repetitive tasks such as processing entitlements data, analyzing ILMT reports, researching software bundling, finding part number evolutions and creating Excel templates for non-PVU license metrics.
Results
Consulting
Boutique consulting firm uses Blue-LM support customers on IBM compliance issues with increased efficiency and accuracy.
Health
Blue-LM subscription used to improve customer implementation of FlexNet Manager Suite (FNMS) sub capacity reporting configuration (including product bundling).
Consulting
International consulting firm uses Blue-LM as repository to retrieve IBM software pricing information for IBM customer benchmark projects.
