Weekly compliance
intelligence.

The Compliance Brief is the internal briefing we used to send to our own consulting team — now opened to a wider audience of CIOs, CFOs, Chief Procurement Officers, IT Asset Managers, and Software Asset Management leads.

What's in every issue

• Vendor moves: pricing changes, packaging shifts, audit patterns we have seen this week across Oracle, Microsoft, SAP, Salesforce, Adobe, ServiceNow, IBM, Cisco, VMware, and the hyperscalers.
• Clause of the week: a specific contract term to look for in your next renewal — what it does, why it matters, and how to negotiate it.
• Benchmark of the week: a single anonymised pricing or discount benchmark from a current engagement.
• Reader question: one anonymised reader question answered by a practice partner.

Who reads it

More than 18,000 subscribers across Fortune 500, FTSE 350, OMX Stockholm 30, and equivalent global enterprises. Distributed only in plain text from a real sender. Unsubscribe in one click. We never sell, share, or rent the list.

Recent issues

• Oracle's new "perpetual extension fee" — what it is, why it appeared in February renewals, and how to push back.
• Microsoft Copilot at $30/user/month — what enterprises are actually paying after negotiation.
• The SAP indirect-access reset — RISE migration as audit amnesty, in practice.
• Broadcom VMware — the four clauses you must add to any new perpetual agreement.