Enterprise software licensing creates significant economic obligations that are often difficult to see, interpret, or control. Product deployments, infrastructure changes, virtualization, cloud migration, contract terms, licensing metrics, and incomplete records can combine to create material cost and compliance exposures.

Piaras MacDonnell brings specialist expertise in IBM licensing, software asset management, audit defence, enterprise agreement renewal, and licence optimization. His analysis helps organizations establish what they own, understand what they use, test vendor assertions, evaluate commercial alternatives, and make decisions grounded in evidence rather than assumption.

As a Senior Analyst with Alescent, Piaras contributes this expertise to engagements in which software expenditure, contractual commitments, technology consumption, and risk must be connected to measurable business value. His work supports both immediate commercial decisions and the continuing capabilities required to govern software investments more effectively.