While many software vendors run software license audits on customers, there are some key differences customers should be mindful of when it comes to IBM, according to a new report from advisory firm ...

Facing a trying economy and decreasing new license revenue, enterprise software vendors are turning to more frequent license audits to turn up missing revenue. A Gartner survey revealed increasing ...

Given the depredations that software publishers visit on us little guys in the name of license compliance -- with Microsoft's WGA shenanigans just the most recent prime example -- you might assume ...

Perhaps nothing is as heart-stopping as when the IRS auditors come a knockin', but the arrival of software vendors-with their audit checklists and licensing agreements in hand-isn't for the faint of ...

It was hard enough to manage IT infrastructures when everything was on-premise only. But today, with combined on-premise and multi-cloud deployments, say Michael Corey, co-founder, LicenseFortress, ...

Aspera GmbH – Microsoft’s Global Anti-Piracy Day operation spans 49 countries and has kicked off educational programs as well as legal actions. According to reports, Microsoft is set to announce ...

Many organizations still remember the sting of being a victim of the dreaded patent trolls. Patents were granted to encourage, recognize, and reward innovation. Awarding the inventors with a ...

For IT professionals, software license optimization and compliance have been an ongoing dilemma – purchase too many licenses and money is wasted on unused seats or buy too few and risk audits, legal ...

A New York manufacturer is suing ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor following a dispute over whether it should have to pay nearly US$150,000 in additional license fees. BMP America, maker ...

BOSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Today UpperEdge, LLC., a provider of IT Sourcing & Negotiation Services, announced the formation of an SAP Software Audit Advisory Practice, providing market intelligence and ...

Data-integration vendor Informatica and a customer are embroiled in a legal dispute over US$6.3 million in license fees that Informatica says it is owed due to noncompliance. Hospital Corporation of ...

You don’t have to be pirating software to get in trouble during a compliance audit. “Where companies get ensnared is in the deployment phase. It’s not that they are trying to get away without paying, ...