DRM for Contract Management
Contract Clarity. Cost Control. Compliance Confidence.
Data Risk Monitor maps every commercial data set against its licence terms as it moves through a firm — so you catch costly breaches before a vendor audit does, and stop paying for data nobody uses.
The challenge
Contracts, usage and cost live in separate silos
Firms license large volumes of market data, reference data, benchmarks and analytics. Every data set comes with a contract defining who may use it, for what purpose and at what cost.
But contracts sit with legal, usage sits in technology and cost sits in finance. Feeds get repurposed, teams change and projects end — while the data keeps flowing and the invoices keep arriving.
“Can you show me every system and report that consumes this data set, and confirm it is covered by the licence?”
Very few firms can answer with confidence.
How DRM helps
Lineage, overlaid with your contract terms
DRM maps the journey of each contracted data set, from the vendor source through every system, process and report that consumes it. It then overlays each contract's terms — licensed users, systems, permitted use and distribution rights — onto that map.
Where a flow has no matching entitlement, DRM flags a coverage gap before it becomes an audit finding. Where an entitlement exists but the flow has quietly stopped, it flags a cancellation candidate before the next renewal invoice goes out.
You can also model the impact of renegotiating, replacing or cancelling a contract before you make the change.
Key benefits
Cost recovery
Find data sets that are contracted and paid for but no longer used, and cancel them with confidence.
Breach avoidance
Spot unlicensed or out-of-scope usage before a vendor audit does, avoiding back-billing and penalties.
Contract visibility
See, for any feed, which systems, teams and reports rely on it and under what terms.
Renewal leverage
Negotiate from real usage evidence rather than vendor assertions.
Cross-functional collaboration
Procurement, legal, compliance and technology work from one shared, current picture.
Audit readiness
Produce evidence of usage against contracted rights, on demand.
Who it is for
Procurement & vendor managers
Renew and cancel from an evidence base.
Legal & compliance
Keep usage within licensed terms.
System owners
Know which feeds your systems depend on.
Data officers
One firm-wide inventory of contracted data.
Senior management
Spend, risk and savings at a glance.
Stop paying for data nobody uses
Talk to us about mapping your data contracts against real usage.
