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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

You’ve gotten your letter from the vendor. The audit is coming and you’ve got to balance what licenses you have on your systems versus what you’re licensing contracts allow. The difference could cost ...

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 ...

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 ...

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.

This new generation, the “software licensing troll,” has taken a page out of the patent troll guide and is distorting the state of software license contract safeguards beyond their intended purpose.

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 ...

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 ...