Avoid the headache of licensing
There are two major concerns for any IT Director, with regards to licensing:
Inefficient management of licensing, particularly when managing hundreds of users within an environment. This can lead to human errors and can be heavily time consuming. This is predominantly inefficient within organizations with high staff turnover, or those with varying operations that require numerous software packages.
More importantly, legal issues and pitfalls. Legalities surround both the purchase and utilization of the correct number of licenses per user and also regarding copyright.
Managing software licenses can be difficult enough within a small business, but when tasked with managing an ever expanding and varied workforce of hundreds, you may find yourself faced with a mire of legal worries.
Businesses often require to purchase new licenses as new staff are employed, however, these amendments to the workforce are often overlooked by in-house teams. Our network management software, Velocity, generates reports & manages your license requirements, detailing licensed users and outstanding requirements.
Some crucial factors to abide include:
- A software licensee never takes ownership of the copyright in the software; he merely purchases a license to use the protected software under the terms and conditions set by the copyright owner and the law
- Copyright exists in a work from the moment it is recorded
- Criminal penalties can include unlimited fines and up to ten years in prison
- Buy from reputable dealers
- Obtain a written quotation listing hardware/software specification and version.
If in doubt, ask an expert. If you find yourself outside of the terms of the license of software, you and/or your organization may be subject to significant fines and even imprisonment for more serious infringements.
Included as part of our complete managed service package (as an option), license management takes another mundane, repetitive, yet vital task out of the hands of your IT team. It gives them more time to focus on strategy and enables your technology to automatically manage itself.