Overview
Redress Compliance is an independent software licensing and vendor negotiation firm founded in 2018 by Fredrik Filipsson and Morten Andersen. Both founders held senior commercial roles at Oracle, IBM, and SAP before moving to the buyer side. The firm operates from London with delivery resources in the Nordics and the United States, and reports more than 500 client engagements across Europe, the Middle East, North America, and Asia-Pacific. Redress Compliance does not resell software, take vendor referral fees, or run audits for vendors, which keeps the firm's recommendations free of revenue conflicts.
The practice covers the full enterprise software vendor stack — Oracle (Database, EBS, Fusion Cloud, Java SE), SAP (ECC, S/4HANA, RISE, BTP), IBM (Db2, Cognos, Maximo, Passport Advantage), Microsoft (M365, Azure, Dynamics 365), Salesforce, ServiceNow, Workday, and OpenAI enterprise agreements. Engagements typically blend audit defence, contract negotiation, deployment optimisation, and cloud subscription right-sizing. The firm publishes more than 600 long-form research articles on Oracle, SAP, and Microsoft licensing rules, which functions as both lead generation and a public knowledge base.
Redress Compliance is a fit for procurement, legal, and ITAM teams that need vendor-neutral counsel on a defined renewal, audit, or cost-reduction event, rather than a long-running outsourced SAM function. The firm is a small team and is rarely the right choice for buyers that want a single global SAM tower combining tool deployment, day-to-day licence administration, and audit response across hundreds of publishers. Pricing is project-based or retained on a monthly basis, with no contingency or commission components.
Services Offered
- Oracle licence advisory and audit defence
- SAP licence optimisation and S/4HANA conversion advisory
- IBM Passport Advantage and PVU/RVU optimisation
- Microsoft EA, MCA, and Azure commitment negotiation
- Salesforce, ServiceNow, and Workday renewal negotiation
- Oracle Java SE subscription audit defence
- OpenAI and generative AI enterprise contract review
- Cloud subscription right-sizing and FinOps advisory
- ERP cost reduction and shelfware reclamation
- ITAM programme design and tool-vendor selection
Typical Engagement
| Engagement Type | Model | Typical Range |
|---|---|---|
| Effective Licence Position (Oracle/SAP) | Fixed-fee project | $25K–$80K (4–8 weeks) |
| Audit defence engagement | Fixed-fee or T&M | $40K–$200K per audit |
| Renewal negotiation support | Fixed-fee or success-share | $30K–$250K per event |
| Retained advisory | Monthly retainer | $6K–$25K per month |
| Senior advisor hourly | Hourly bill rate | $350–$550/hour |
Pricing verified May 2026 from buyer references and published case studies. Redress Compliance does not accept contingency-fee work and does not resell vendor software.
Strengths
- Founders held senior licensing roles inside Oracle, IBM, and SAP before crossing to the buyer side, giving direct insight into vendor commercial playbooks
- True independence — no software resale, no vendor referral fees, no audit-partner relationships with publishers
- Strong public-facing research library on Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, and Java licensing rules, used as a knowledge base by procurement teams
- Fixed-fee engagement model with defined deliverables suits buyers that want predictable cost rather than open-ended advisory burn
- Specialist Java SE audit defence practice covering Oracle's per-employee subscription model
Limitations
- Small team (~11 advisors) — limited capacity for concurrent large global engagements or 24x7 SAM operations
- No SAM tool implementation services — clients must engage Flexera, Snow, or USU partners separately for tooling rollouts
- Limited managed-services bench, so buyers seeking a fully outsourced ongoing SAM tower will need a different partner
- Heaviest expertise concentrated in Oracle, SAP, Microsoft, and Java; coverage of niche publishers is shallower
- Most senior advisors are EMEA-based; engagements requiring continuous US Pacific Time on-site presence may need scheduling adjustments