Third-Party License Management: A Path to Lower Costs and Higher Returns
Published 13th Apr 2009 | Source - Applications | Pages - 4For several years, IDC has observed trends related to the tracking and management of customers' software license assets. The benefits to software vendors and customers of license management technologies include improved compliance with software license contracts, reduced administration time for customers that must report their software utilization to vendors or other parties, increased efficiency for customers in the purchase and deployment of software licenses, and increased viability and attractiveness of software license models that align closely with usage, such as utility pricing. Awareness of these benefits has spread throughout communities of software vendors, third-party providers of license management technologies, and software customers. As a result, IDC has seen increased adoption of tools that assist in the management and tracking of software license assets.
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