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Software Asset Management: Potent Antidote for License Audits

Our recent posts have focused on the increasing frequency of software license audits, and steps organizations can take to make an audit less of a hassle. Vendors such as Oracle are using audits to uncover software that isn’t properly licensed. If an organization has unlicensed software installed, the vendor will demand that the organization purchase additional licenses (often at full retail value) and often pay penalties as well. These so-called “true-up costs” reach six or seven figures in many cases.

By Technologent on December 26, 2016