We take the audit finding apart.

One job, done from the buyer's side

An OpenText audit rarely opens as a conversation. It opens as a number, priced at full list, with back maintenance and the cost of the audit stacked on top. The licensee is given seven days notice and told that compliance is its own responsibility. For most companies that letter lands without warning and with no internal playbook to answer it.

We exist to answer it. OpenText Audit Defense was founded in 2020 by former vendor compliance leadership, and since then we have defended more than 200 OpenText and Micro Focus audits. Across that work we have reduced the average initial compliance finding by 68 percent and mitigated more than $90M in cumulative claims against vendor positions. We are buyer side only. We never sit on the vendor's side of the table, and we do not resell the software you are being audited on.

Why an independent defense matters

The Micro Focus acquisition, which closed on January 31 2023, gave OpenText one of the widest software estates in the industry. Security products such as Fortify, ArcSight, Voltage, NetIQ and Sentinel, DevOps tools such as ALM, LoadRunner and UFT, and the COBOL and Enterprise Server lines all arrived under their own metrics and their own Additional License Authorizations. OpenText's original ECM line, including Documentum, Extended ECM, Content Suite, eDOCS and InfoArchive, is governed instead by the OpenText EULA. That breadth is exactly where an opening finding inflates, because overlap and ambiguity work in the vendor's favour until someone reconstructs the position independently.

A reseller cannot do that work without a conflict. A general law firm rarely knows how the measurement scripts are built. We do, because the firm was assembled by people who ran compliance programs of this kind. That is the difference between negotiating a number and disassembling it.

How we work

Every engagement runs on the same four operations, which we call the four Rs: respond, reconstruct, rebut, resolve. We take over first contact inside the seven day window, build your effective license position before any vendor measurement script runs, challenge the finding line by line, and resolve on terms you can live with, usually by converting forward into a clean OpenPass agreement with audit protections written in. You can read the full sequence on our audit defense method, see the product specific work across the eight defense tracks, and review anonymised results in our engagement files.

If you would prefer the long form view, the complete OpenText audit defense playbook for 2026 sets out the whole discipline, from the notice window to the OpenPass conversion.

Independence, stated plainly

We are not affiliated with OpenText Corporation. We hold no reseller status, no partnership, and no endorsement from any vendor. Our only client is the company under audit. That position is the source of our value, and we protect it without exception.