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Fredrik Filipsson

Co-Founder & Principal Advisor. Twenty years across enterprise IT and the mainframe world, now on the buyer side of mainframe software licensing.

Fredrik has spent twenty years in enterprise IT and the mainframe world, working across the licensing, contracts, and capacity decisions that sit behind every major renewal. He co-founded Mainframe Licensing Experts to put that experience where it is scarce: on the buyer side of the table. He works on audit defense and license negotiation across the seven publishers, and writes here on the renewal mechanics, contract clauses, and pricing models buyers actually face.

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When to Bring In Outside Help, and When Not To The Audit Clause You Signed and Forgot Syncsort (Precisely) Contract Traps to Avoid Software AG Contract Traps to Avoid Outsourcers and Your Licenses: The Control Question Mainframe Skills Shortage and Its Licensing Side Effects MICS Resource Management Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number IBM Tailored Fit Pricing Adoption: What Buyers Report From MIPS to MSU: Migration Stories From the Table Broadcom (CA) Contract Traps to Avoid Benchmarking Software AG Mainframe Spend Benchmarking IBM Mainframe Spend Benchmarking Broadcom (CA) Mainframe Spend BMC Contract Traps to Avoid zSecure Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number z/OS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Why Mainframe Software Audits Are Rising Again What the z17 Cycle Means for Software Costs What Good Mainframe License Governance Looks Like VM:Manager Suite Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Top Secret Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Tivoli Workload Scheduler for z/OS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number The True Cost of Doing Nothing at Renewal The Renewal Uplift Letter, Decoded The Quiet Rise of Third Party Mainframe Support The Mainframe Software Stack Audit You Should Run Yearly The Mainframe Exit Studies That Never Ship Syncsort (Precisely) Support Cost Escalation: The Quiet Compounder Syncsort (Precisely) Renewal Trends: Patterns From the Table Sub-Capacity Discipline: The Cheapest Insurance on the Frame Software AG Support Cost Escalation: The Quiet Compounder Software AG Renewal Trends: Patterns From the Table Soft Capping Wins: Three Patterns That Cut Peaks SYSVIEW Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Rocket Terminal Emulation (BlueZone) Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Rocket Software Roadmap Moves and Their License Impact Rocket Software Price Increase Patterns and How to Counter Them Rocket Software Audit Activity: What We Are Seeing Reading Vendor Earnings Calls for Renewal Leverage OMEGAMON Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number NetMaster Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Negotiating With Syncsort (Precisely): The Five Levers That Work Negotiating With Rocket Software: The Five Levers That Work Negotiating With Compuware (BMC): The Five Levers That Work Negotiating With BMC: The Five Levers That Work Multi Year Terms: When Locking In Beats Flexibility MainView Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number MQ for z/OS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Log Master for Db2 Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number License Records: The Hygiene That Wins Audits InterTest Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number IDMS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number IBM Roadmap Moves and Their License Impact IBM Price Increase Patterns and How to Counter Them IBM Audit Activity: What We Are Seeing How Vendors Time Renewal Pressure to Your Budget Cycle Enterprise COBOL Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Endevor Estates: Modernize, Renew, or Replace Dev Test Licensing: The Discount Most Buyers Never Claim Datacom Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number DFSORT Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Control-M for z/OS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Compuware (BMC) Roadmap Moves and Their License Impact Compuware (BMC) Price Increase Patterns and How to Counter Them Compuware (BMC) Audit Activity: What We Are Seeing Capacity on Demand: Flexibility With a Price Tag CICS Transaction Server Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number CA Spool Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number CA Librarian Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number CA Dispatch Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number CA 7 Workload Automation Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number CA 1 Tape Management Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number Broadcom (CA) Support Cost Escalation: The Quiet Compounder Broadcom (CA) Renewal Trends: Patterns From the Table Benchmarks: What Enterprises Pay per MSU in 2026 BMC Support Cost Escalation: The Quiet Compounder BMC Renewal Trends: Patterns From the Table Audit Defense Outcomes: What 30 to 92 Percent Reduction Looks Like AMI Ops Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number AMI Data for IMS Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number AMI Cloud Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number ACF2 Renewal Negotiation: What Moves the Number

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