Perhaps nothing is as heart-stopping as when the IRS auditors come a knockin', but the arrival of software vendors-with their audit checklists and licensing agreements in hand-isn't for the faint of ...

Facing a trying economy and decreasing new license revenue, enterprise software vendors are turning to more frequent license audits to turn up missing revenue. A Gartner survey revealed increasing ...

Given the depredations that software publishers visit on us little guys in the name of license compliance -- with Microsoft's WGA shenanigans just the most recent prime example -- you might assume ...

You’ve gotten your letter from the vendor. The audit is coming and you’ve got to balance what licenses you have on your systems versus what you’re licensing contracts allow. The difference could cost ...

VMware is taking Allstate to federal court, accusing the insurer of obstructing a software licensing audit and ignoring key ...

LOS ANGELES, January 22, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A recent study conducted by Unisphere Research, and sponsored by LicenseFortress, reveals that software audits are becoming increasingly frequent and ...

Data-integration vendor Informatica and a customer are embroiled in a legal dispute over US$6.3 million in license fees that Informatica says it is owed due to noncompliance. Hospital Corporation of ...

(MENAFN- ForPressRelease) The high-stakes world of IT management just got a whole lot more intimidating with the arrival of a software license audit letter. Such pressure to prove compliance, document ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In the city of Dallas, Interim CIO Brian Gardner needs to manage ...