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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

(TNS) — Fresno County paid IBM almost $2.3 million after a software-licensing audit revealed too many workers were using unlicensed IBM software in county departments. The bill, which was paid in ...

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 ...

Software audits have become so prevalent that companies offering “audit management software” have proliferated in recent years. In their Technology Law column, Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss ...