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Microsoft SPE helps joined-up thinking

We assess how Microsoft’s secure productive enterprise licence can help enterprises coordinate their digital transformation. The Microsoft product portfolio can enable digital transformations, but there is no reason to wait three years for your next enterprise agreement (EA) renewal before performing a thorough review of Microsoft’s role in your business technology strategy. Microsoft Secure Productive … Read more

The high price of not understanding how automation works with existing software licences

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Businesses must check their software licences before they introduce robotic process automation or they risk breaking the rules. This article mostly refers to the UK market. However, the principles discussed apply to any market. Robotic process automation has the potential to deliver significant cost efficiencies to many businesses, but those efficiencies could be wiped out … Read more

Critical software licensing pitfalls to avoid when moving to the cloud

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Thinking about moving to the cloud? We found an article to help you cope with the software licensing challenges and avoid paying more than you should.\ Enterprise IT data center managers have moved past a good number of obstacles and fears in order to begin running production workloads in the public cloud. Lifting and shifting … Read more

What the new era in software licensing could look like

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We found this article and thought it might be interesting for any enterprise that wants to plan software spend for the long haul. For most of the history of enterprise software, the model for how organisations have purchased applications has largely been the same. The perpetual license has dominated, whereby companies pay the full price of … Read more

How to minimise risk during Microsoft’s software licensing reviews

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If you have invested a lot in Microsoft software, this article will help you prepare for a licensing review and ensure that you don’t lose any money. If you need more info or help on this topic, reach out to one of our consultants.  As with any organisation, as Microsoft approaches the end of its … Read more