License Compliance Management — Are You Prepared for a Software Audit?

Increasingly, software vendors are stepping up efforts to identify, audit and prosecute organizations that are not compliant with their software licensing agreements. In fact, a 2006 survey conducted by Gartner Research revealed that 35% of companies had experienced an on-site software audit from a major software vendor. Copyright infringement is serious business, the consequences of which can range anywhere from a chaotic scramble to regain compliance, to piracy penalties of up to $150,000 per infringed-upon title (not including legal fees), to demands that a company cease operations until corrective action is taken. But it's not just money on the line — your company's reputation and goodwill are also at stake.

With Express Software Manager^®, you can prepare for software audits and monitor ongoing license compliance by tracking your software license inventory and quickly generating comprehensive, detailed compliance reports. Express Software Manager automatically discovers the software installed across your network, reconciles those applications against imported purchasing data, and pinpoints exactly which computers have unlicensed software installed.