‘Software Development Times’ is not a journal I normally read, but I was fortunate to be alerted to this article which provides more useful contribution to the debate and increasing awareness of the pressures for licensing options from software vendors. The article contains some useful information from IDC’s Amy Konary (follow her on Twitter at @mizkonary) about specific instances of the financial impact for organizations moving … Continue reading The drive for software licensing flexibility
I’ve just read through an article on this topic posted today by Tony Lock of Freeform Dynamics. It does a good job of highlighting areas that need to be considered by anyone already involved in, or contemplating, moving ahead with either server or desktop virtualization. In particular he points to the ease with which VMs … Continue reading Software Licensing and Virtualization
I’ve been exploring a very informative article on IT Audit techniques by Robert E Davis. It dives into a level of sophistication around the choices of testing methodologies that I am naive in, so kept me occupied for more than the regulation one mug of coffee per blog read. It also gave me a link … Continue reading Software License Compliance – is it part of IT GRC?
In a new blog post , Randy Littleson, a Senior VP at Flexera (Accresso Software until renamed a few weeks ago) refers to survey findings around the growth of usage-based licensing. There are some interesting figures in here, such as the very low percentage of organizations that have robust application usage measurement tools in place. … Continue reading Usage-based licensing survey
Sometimes you come across some commentary that feels truly in tune with the challenges of the time, and R “Ray” Wang offers some stimulating thoughts in a brief post on his Software Insider blog. Every one of his five propositions applies – I believe – to both vendors like us and to organizations using IT. … Continue reading Learning from the decade?
Just a quick note to encourage anyone who has had an unfortunate experience with a software license compliance audit in the last two years to complete the online survey posted by Forrester. They promise to share their results, which will include measures taken to deal with out-of-compliance situations. I hope they’ll make it available to a larger … Continue reading Forrester Survey on Software License Audits
Excuse me publicising a product capability, but I’ve realized we do not do this topic justice on the Web site yet. Many organizations now use VoIP to relay phone calls to their help desk analysts. Great value can be gained by providing the analyst with instant access to key data about the person or organization … Continue reading Integrating Issue Tracking with your VoIP Phone System
Following commentary on cloud computing and related topics such as data security in the cloud is a fairly thankless activity, given the amount of unsubstantiated views and commentary from non-practioners. But I recently turned up one sober, cool-headed analysis of the relevance of cloud computing in different scenarios; the article highlighted areas in which cloud would … Continue reading Keeping a cool head in the clouds
It’s been my pleasure today to be talking with Jeff Gordon who runs a Web site dedicated to helping organizations understand the licenses to the software that they use, and encouraging them to take a more pro-active stance in negotiating with their software suppliers. I must be nuts to be publicising this, because the thought of … Continue reading Licensing: a nightmare for customers only?
Just a brief note to report the feedback from the Vector Issue Tracker implementation team that we have successfully concluded another application of Issue Tracker’s power and flexibility in facilitating new business processes. The key factor in many projects recently has been real-time access to data held in the customer’s Great Plains database. It appears that … Continue reading Business Process Automation success with Great Plains
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