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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

VMware is taking Allstate to federal court, accusing the insurer of obstructing a software licensing audit and ignoring key ...

Shrinking IT budgets, fierce competition, and a mature software market have increased the motivation for software publishers (e.g., Microsoft Corp., Adobe Systems Inc., Oracle) to conduct software ...

This vendor-written tech primer has been edited by to eliminate product promotion, but readers should note it will likely favor the submitter’s approach. Open source software is probably the most ...

Louisville Metro Government violated open records laws by improperly using a "preliminary" exemption on a 2017 software licensing audit in response to a Courier Journal open records request, the ...