Stretching the Software Budget: A Practical Guide to Enterprise License Optimization

Organizations can get much greater business value from their software budgets by eliminating waste, more intelligently allocating entitlements, and negotiating more effectively with vendors. These Enterprise License Optimization (ELO) strategies pay particularly big dividends when applied to high-value applications. This white paper explains how ELO works—and offers practical advice about how to implement ELO in the real world.

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Best practices for software license management

Software license management is the process that ensures that the legal agreements that come with procured software licenses are adhered to.In a basic sense, it ensures that only legally procured licenses are deployed on systems.

Organizations spend a fortune on licenses every year, and a lack of management around it can result in heavy fines. In some cases, CIOs of certain organizations have been taken into custody for violating norms.

This article, provides the basic concept of how software license management works along with a process map.

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