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 ...

LicenseFortress®, the leading independent software licensing advisory firm, is warning organizations about the accelerating rise of what it calls Ambush Audits™—vendor-initiated information-gathering ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A New York manufacturer is suing ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor following a dispute over whether it should have to pay nearly US$150,000 in additional license fees. BMP America, maker ...