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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

More and more companies are being audited by their software vendors—and the penalties can be costly. This list of to-do’s will help firms avoid such audits. The 80/20 rule applies, especially to ...

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 ...