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From a Mess to a Model Program: Asset Tracking Serves Up Savings and Security for Healthcare Insurance Company (Part I)

Posted on Friday, January 11th, 2013
Note: The identity of the company featured in this customer snapshot has been concealed to protect the non-compliant. Part 1:  Sorting Out a Software Compliance Tangle Searching for software purchasing records, an IT manager at a well-established health insurance provider found herself face to face with a compliance nightmare of colossal proportions. What began as a filing exercise became a scavenger hunt where all the clues added up to potentially huge license...

Microsoft SCCM Users Report Significant Challenges with Software License Management

Posted on Tuesday, December 4th, 2012
SCCM2012A couple weeks ago we hosted a webinar related to Express Software Manager for SCCM, our asset management offering that turns SCCM’s software inventory data into reliable, license-centric reports. When the webinar drew to a close, we asked attendees to participate in a survey designed to gauge their degree of success using SCCM to manage their software licenses.  The results closely mirror what we consistently hear from our existing and prospective customers; so much so that I thought...

Wow, I just read the Microsoft Product Use Rights Document…

Posted on Thursday, November 15th, 2012
microsoftsurfacetabletSince the release of Windows 8 RT, a number of articles and discussions have “Surfaced” (sorry, couldn’t resist!) related to Microsoft’s introduction of licensing rules that make it less expensive to run Windows 8 RT on Windows “companion” devices versus non-Windows devices such as iPads, iPhones, Androids, etc.  As a result, I set off to read the Microsoft Licensing information. If you think the US Tax Code is confusing, you should read the Microsoft Product Use Rights.  After...

Customer Snapshot: York County School Division

Posted on Wednesday, September 12th, 2012
(Note: This case study is the final topic in our blog series, “Managing Software Licenses in a Citrix Environment.”) Fast Track to License Compliance, Cost Containment and Purchasing Alignment in a Citrix Environment York County School Division (YCSD) was an early mover to a virtualized software environment. With over 800 software titles being utilized across nineteen schools, more than 6,000 computers, and some 14,000 students, YCSD chose Citrix XenApp to stream software packages...

Few Technology Options for License Management in Citrix Environments

Posted on Monday, August 27th, 2012
In the most recent post in our blog series, “Managing Licenses in a Citrix Environment,” our marketing director, Debra Brandt, discussed the challenges related to antiquated per-device license models that don’t map logically to a user-centric application delivery approach made possible via Citrix implementations.  Using the Citrix software delivery model, applications are installed on one or more Citrix servers, then published or streamed to endpoints such as traditional...

Archaic EULAs Create a Licensing Quagmire for Citrix Shops

Posted on Wednesday, August 15th, 2012
PDHeadInSandIn my introduction to this article series, I discussed the challenges related to managing software licenses within a Citrix environment.  Let’s start with the primary reason for the difficulties in the first place: Most software publishers are clinging to a per-device license model that doesn’t translate into an environment in which application delivery is user-centric. This is especially baffling in a world in which mobile devices are quickly being added to the...
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