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In a perfect world software licensing wouldn’t top your list of considerations when building and delivering the IT solutions your customers need. Architects and developers would collaborate to [...]

$30 million. That’s the bill that arrived for one organization after a recent SAP audit. Oh, and it only had four weeks to respond to SAP. In the end, SHI helped the customer talk SAP down [...]

Autodesk is about to fundamentally change how it extends capabilities and delivers new functionality. Beginning in June 2017, customers with existing eligible perpetual licenses on active [...]

Some 95 percent of IT professionals have taken to the cloud, according to a recent survey. And if you’re one of them, you might want to check your licensing – you could be breaking your [...]

Adobe’s Creative Cloud for enterprise suite can now be licensed through a Value Incentive Plan (VIP) Agreement. Translation: Organizations are no longer required to license Creative Cloud for [...]

You probably heard Microsoft is buying LinkedIn. But have you heard about MPSA’s evolution and the licensing changes for Windows Server 2016 and Office 365 (O365)? Microsoft announced a [...]

There’s no way around it – your organization will face a software audit at some point. A few years ago, Gartner found that 65 percent of organizations were audited by at least one publisher in [...]

Many organizations struggle to keep up with more than just the owned versus deployed positions of their software licensing; additional entitlements, such as software maintenance, are often [...]

It’s the year of choice for Autodesk customers -- organizations can either license Autodesk software through perpetual rights or Autodesk’s latest subscription licensing model, called Desktop [...]

We’ve said it plenty of times: Licensing is rarely simple. Cisco is trying to change that. Enter Cisco ONE, a suite that bundles all available licensing options for a device or platform [...]