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Software License: Most all software is licensed rather than sold. That means purchasers are never the actual owners of the software, although they may be able to use it without any...; Full Software License Definition >>

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Small School Districts Gain Big Buying Power With School Agreement for Consortium: To train students to achieve technology proficiency, Rhode Island Public Schools must acquire the latest software. In response, smaller school districts in the state formed the Rhode Island Society of Technology Educators (RISTE) and, with the help of TechTeam Government Solutions, set up a School Agreement with Microsoft to qualify...; Tags: Software, Software License, Agreement, Microsoft Corp., Tools & Techniques, Management; Case studies 2008-03-21
Product Key Explorer (exe): Product Key Explorer displays product keys for Windows, MS Office, SQL, Exchange Server and over 500 other software products installed on your network computers. The software retrieves product keys from network computers and allows to protect your company from having pirated software on your network. With this software you will...; Tags: Software, Software Product, Software License, Product Key, Tools & Techniques, Management; Software downloads 2008-01-15
Does the software license Fee Matter?: Recently, I described the need to consider implementation costs when calculating enterprise software ROI. Implementation costs are a major variable in the ROI equation, since service expenses are often unpredictable. Non-license costs almost always represent a substantially larger expense than the initial license, so the impact on ROI can be...; Tags: Peachtree Software, Software License, ROI, So,what, Roi/Tco, Tools & Techniques, Enterprise Software, Finance, Managerial Accounting, Management, Software, Michael Krigsman; Blog posts 2007-07-23
software license Manager (exe): A safe and secure way to store important information about your applications. Information such as serial numbers, software information, vendor information, license information, and billing information. Version 1.1 may include unspecified updates, enhancements, or bug fixes.; Tags: Software, Software License, Information, Tools & Techniques, Management; Software downloads 2007-02-25
Calculating Your Bandwidth and software license Needs for Flash Media Server 2: Flash Media Server 2 provides a very powerful development environment that enables a person to deliver compelling, interactive audio and video applications. These applications can be as simple as a one-to-many streamed video or as complex as a many-to-many video conferencing system. Because of this, determining the number of users...; Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Bandwidth, Media Server, Software License, Video, Flash Media Server 2, Corporate Communications, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management; White papers 2007-01-19

E-Licensing With Adobe License Manager: A Better Way to Manage Tour Adobe software licenses: Managing software licenses is a necessary part of any operation, but organizations lack the breadth of tools to realize this capability. Software Asset Management (SAM) solutions are outstanding for tracking applications, versions, and patches. But they are unable to solve the manual challenge of reconciling the number of users with...; Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., License Management, Software License, Tools & Techniques, Management; White papers 2006-09-01
KeyedAccess for MS Access (zip): KeyedAccess is an add-on module for Microsoft Access that handles product key/unlock code validation, giving developers the ability to create secure trial/shareware versions of their Access applications, or to enforce monthly or yearly software license renewal. Only a key provided by the application developer will fit the unique lock that...; Tags: Microsoft Access, Software License, Microsoft Corp., KeyedAccess, Tools & Techniques, Microsoft Office, Management, Office Suites, Software; Software downloads 2006-07-27
Best Practices for Selecting & Implementing software license Management: To fully realise the benefits gained from implementing a license management solution, careful consideration must be given to the planning, design, fulfilment, use and administration phases of the license lifecycle. This whitepaper from SafeNet outlines the best practices for successfully selecting and implementing a license management solution.; Tags: Software, License Management, Software License, Best Practice, SafeNet Inc.; White papers 2006-07-12
Configuring Intel NetStructure Host Media Processing software licenses: Provisioning resources according to a software model allows far more flexibility than provisioning with hardware boards, each of which has a fixed set of resources. Understanding the types of resources required and the rules for combining them makes configuring licenses for Intel NetStructure Host Media Processing (HMP) Software far less...; Tags: Software, Board, Media, Software License, Intel Corp., Corporate Governance, Tools & Techniques, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management; White papers 2006-06-01
Adaptec Taps Platform Professional Services to Boost Return on IT Assets Through Consolidation: Adaptec is the world's leading provider of data storage access solutions. Adaptec needed to reduce spending on costly software licenses and hardware resources without negatively impacting the productivity of the engineers who used them. The challenge was to spend less on redundant resources without sacrificing service levels or resource availability...; Tags: Adaptec Inc., Platform Computing Inc., software license, hardware, data storage, decision-making, storage, software, information technology; Case studies 2006-05-04
KeyRing (1): KeyRing is a freeware Windows application that manages software licenses for the workplace. KeyRing allows you to add, remove, and trade software licenses among employees and computers, for an unlimited number of software applications. It consists of a stand alone database that will hold all your license keys, and a...; Tags: Software, Software License, KeyRing, Tools & Techniques, Management; Software downloads 2006-03-31
Calculating Tour software license Needs for the Macromedia Flash Media Server 2: Macromedia Flash Media Server provides a powerful development environment that enables a person to deliver compelling, interactive audio and video applications. These applications can be as simple as a one-to-many streamed video or as complex as a many-to-many video conferencing system. Because of this, determining the number of users that...; Tags: Software, Adobe Systems Inc., Software License, Macromedia Inc., Video, Macromedia Flash, Macromedia Flash Media Server, Corporate Communications, Tools & Techniques, Marketing, Management; White papers 2005-11-10
Siebel's software license sales drop: Siebel's software license sales dropSiebelSiebel has had a large problem in utilzation with it's users. It is actually just a CPA number crunchers product. It has little or no facility for salespeople, other than recording where they think they are.Siebel is also inflexible. If a corporation has...; Tags: software, Siebel Systems Inc., software license sale, software license; Discussion threads 2005-07-27
software license Management: Reduce IT Costs With Dynamic License Management, Compliance Tracking, Software Metering, and Usage Analysis: ManageSoft is a dynamic software license management and usage metering solution for fixed and mobile devices anywhere in the world. ManageSoft IT Business Intelligence extends these powerful real-time capabilities to also provide trend analysis over time, cost analysis, and detailed software usage analysis, with graphical reporting, intelligent license utilization forecasts,...; Tags: Software, Information Technology, Compliance, License Management, Software License, ManageSoft Corp., Analysis, ManageSoft IT Business Intelligence, Tools & Techniques, Management; White papers 2005-04-01
Indemnification Becomes Open Source’s Nightmare and Microsoft’s Blessing: Download this free Yankee Group Report to read about software license indemnification and how it can help your company mitigate the threat of lawsuits related to intellectual property rights, copyright infringement, theft of trade secrets, or patent infringement. Discover why organizations using free, open source software are at far greater...; Tags: Software, Indemnification, Software License, Microsoft Corp., Asset Management, Intellectual Property, Open Source, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Research & Development; White papers 2005-04-01
The Importance of Managing software licenses: Software licensing is an often overlooked risk in financial institutions. The financial and reputation risk associated with improper management of software licenses is on par with disclosure of GLBA protected data. With the current regulator focus on Security and GLBA compliance, the actual risk of loss due to inadequate software...; Tags: Software, Software License, Gramm-Leach-Bliley Act, Tools & Techniques, Regulations, Management, Government; White papers 2005-04-01
Renegotiate software license deals now: Research company Gartner is advising businesses to start renegotiating their existing contracts now, as trends in IT hardware could force software licensing costs up by more than 50 percent over the next year. Gartner claims that the move to multicore-chip architectures, virtual machines and utility computing threatens existing capacity-based, or...; Tags: Gartner Inc.; Blog posts 2004-11-23
Gartner: Re-negotiate software license deals now: Gartner: Re-negotiate software license deals nowHmm../me waits for the "Microsloth" comments..This will be a strong argument for free software ...Before long multiprocessor systems and clusters will become common in business. These systems will be designed to reconfigure dynamically on the fly, with resources allocated first to one set of...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, OPEN SOURCE, Operating systems, Microsoft Corp., software, Linux, IBM Corp., Gartner Inc., software license; Discussion threads 2004-11-23
Is the software license dead?: Is the software license dead?This is 100% right on!The software industry has totally forgotten that they wouldn't be here if not for the consumer. Companies like Microsoft, Intuit, etc. act like the consumer exists because of them. Their arrogance has pushed many, with more on the way, to...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, software license, software; Discussion threads 2004-10-19
Microsoft: Can we check your software license?: Microsoft: Can we check your software license?One more method to drivepeople away! Good job!The straw that breaks the camel's back.Speaking from personal experience:My sister bought a second-hand laptop off her boyfriend in good faith because she needed a computer and only had a small budget. The laptop runs W2K and...; Tags: Tools & Techniques, Patches, software, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows 2000, laptop computer, software license; Discussion threads 2004-09-17