There are several types of software license audits, each with their own risks and variables, experts say. Trade groups like the Business Software Alliance often ask companies to conduct “self-audits,” ...

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, ...

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 ...

Virtually every organization has some form of IT infrastructure and software licensing. For many, the cost to license software is in the tens of millions of dollars, and it’s obviously a vital part of ...

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 ...

Coming out of the pandemic, and faced with an uncertain economy, many software vendors have been looking for sources of additional revenue, and they have found it—through customer software audits.

With software licence audits on the up, analysts have revealed the pitfalls that businesses need to be aware of and how to avoid them. Software audits involve vendors requiring their customers to ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mid-sized companies were more frequently subjected to software license audits in the past three years, and more than half of audited companies paid up to $1 million in ...

Oracle licensing consultant Eliot Arlo Colon still remembers the enormous global publishing company that was “so darn confident” it would breeze through an upcoming software license audit unscathed.

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 ...