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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...

EU Ruling: Software Publishers Can’t Oppose Resale of Used Licenses

Posted on Thursday, July 12th, 2012 1 comment
A recent ruling by European courts sets an important precedent for the growing software resale industry, affirming that the resale of used software is permissible within the European Union, and that software publishers have no grounds to bring charges against such resellers. The defendant in this case, UsedSoft GmbH, is a German company that purchases and resells used Oracle client-server software, transferring license keys that allow customers to download the program directly from...

Announcing Express Software Manager® for Citrix

Posted on Thursday, June 7th, 2012
We are very excited to announce the release of a new addition to the Express Metrix family of software license management products:  Express Software Manager for Citrix. With so many companies delivering software to their users via Citrix technologies, we are proud to count ourselves among one of only a handful (if that!) of software asset management vendors that provide comprehensive support for management of applications running on the Citrix platform. Here’s what Express Software...

June Report of the Month: Activity Log

Posted on Thursday, June 2nd, 2011
Activity Log (Click to Enlarge)One of the reports I suspect few people know about is the Activity Log.  It’s actually one of the oldest reports found within Express Software Manager, dating back to version 3.0, when it was still a pure software metering tool!  Little known to many of our customers, the Activity Log is a fantastic troubleshooting tool that can be used in any number of situations (some of which are described below).  The Activity Log summarizes application usage based on license unit(s), machine(s),...

April Report of the Month: Suite Application Report

Posted on Friday, April 1st, 2011
suite11_FNLOur featured Express Software Manager report this month is a software inventory report called “Suite Application” report.  At its highest level, this report helps you determine what components of suite products are actually being utilized, so you can ensure your software budget is being wisely spent. Here’s a real-life example of how this information can be useful.  Let’s say that your company has 1000 employees, each of whom has a license for Microsoft Office 2007...
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