Contributing Expert

Morten Andersen

Senior Licensing Advisor & Partner · Enterprise Software Specialist

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25+

Years Experience

400+

Audits Defended

Core Vendors

Global

Client Base

About Morten

Morten Andersen is a senior enterprise software licensing advisor with over 25 years of experience across Oracle, SAP, Broadcom/VMware, Cisco, Workday, and IBM. He is one of the most recognised specialists in software audit defence and licensing compliance in Northern Europe, with a track record of defending some of the largest Oracle and SAP audit claims in the region.

Morten's expertise spans the full licensing lifecycle: from initial contract negotiation and licence position management through to audit response, settlement negotiation, and post-audit remediation. His deep technical knowledge of Oracle's LMS methodology, SAP's indirect access rules, and Broadcom's post-acquisition VMware licensing changes makes him a trusted advisor to CTOs, CFOs, and legal teams managing high-stakes software disputes.

He has led engagements for global financial institutions, energy companies, manufacturing groups, and public-sector organisations — consistently achieving outcomes that reduce audit exposure by 60–90% versus the vendor's opening claim.

Areas of Expertise

Oracle

LMS Audit Defence, Database, Java, ELA/ULA

SAP

Indirect Access, USMM, RISE, S/4HANA Migration

Broadcom / VMware

VCF/VVF Transition, Core Licensing, Alternatives

Cisco

EA Negotiation, Smart Licensing, Renewal Strategy

IBM

Passport Advantage, ILMT, Sub-capacity Licensing

Workday

HCM, Finance Cloud, Subscription Negotiation

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How Morten researches and writes

Morten covers the SAP, cloud-infrastructure and FinOps beats on this site, and his method starts with numbers rather than narratives. Each quarter he rebuilds a benchmark set from anonymised enterprise agreements — RISE subscriptions, AWS EDP and Azure MACC commitments, GCP CUDs and the renewal quotes that preceded them — and every price or discount range quoted in his articles traces back to that set. Where the sample is thin, the article says so; where a vendor's list price moved, the piece is re-dated and re-benchmarked rather than quietly edited.

His background is fifteen years in enterprise IT sourcing and cloud economics: he led ERP and infrastructure categories for two Nordic multinationals, negotiated three S/4HANA transitions from the customer chair, and built the FinOps function that took one of them from reactive true-ups to unit-cost forecasting the CFO would sign off on. The recurring theme in his writing — that commitment shape matters more than headline discount — comes directly from watching well-discounted contracts fail on drawdown mechanics, and it is the lens he applies to every cloud and SAP negotiation he reviews.

Morten's reviews of consulting firms follow the same evidence rule as the rest of the site: claimed savings are only cited when supported by documentation or corroborated client interviews, and firms he has worked alongside in past engagements are flagged as such in the review. He accepts no compensation from any ranked firm. Methodology questions and correction requests reach him at the editorial contact, and material corrections are logged on the editorial disclosure page.

Current coverage focus for 2026: RISE with SAP renewal economics as first-generation contracts hit their reset points, hyperscaler commitment sizing in the AI-spend era, egress-fee waiver mechanics, and Broadcom VCF renewal benchmarks. Morten re-runs his cloud pricing benchmark set quarterly and updates affected articles with dated revision notes.