Understanding your organization’s software license compliance standing is a key part of managing your routine business risks. To mitigate the risk of an external license audit or noncompliance fines, you have to be in a position to easily view your company’s compliance status at any time and take any required action to get back on track. To analyze your company’s license compliance status you have to reconcile your organization’s software licenses (“what you own”) with [...]

In a recent King Research survey, approximately two-thirds of the more than 340 IT professionals from mid-market companies polled claimed they were not properly addressing license compliance, with unlicensed software existing somewhere within their organization. An even higher number – more than 70 percent – state that they are unprepared for a vendor audit and the potential fines that could result from lack of license compliance. These results demonstrate the enormous risk that IT departments [...]

Achieving and maintaining software license compliance is a challenging task in today’s ever evolving business environment, yet organizations must be in a position to control the business risks associated with failing to comply with license terms and risks derived from using unauthorized software. As new computers are deployed and software gets installed, auditing changes to your assets and comparing these changes against your software license repository can be complex and cumbersome considering the variety of [...]