In today’s market where revenue on new licenses is hard to come by, software vendors seem to lean more on license compliance audits to squeeze money out of users misusing or abusing their products. Industry analysts estimate that a software licensee can expect an audit from their vendors every three to five years. These software…
Introduction As businesses and corporations scale in this technological era, their adoption rate of enterprise software is also on the rise. And as software assets grow, their management turns complex. In addition, the growth of software assets results in their interdependence which requires a thought out plan for their management. This calls for the development…
Thanks to the software market and the rise of remote working, the IT industry is booming. To be precise, it grew by 8.6% in 2017 and is still peaking due to the unconventional market conditions brought about by the pandemic in 2020. In these times, companies are heavily relying on software more than ever. A…
This may be the shortest guide to Oracle licensing policy for Oracle Database and other technology products (eg Weblogic and other middleware products). You may treat this as an introduction to Oracle licensing. A. Editions: Oracle Database is sold in different editions: Enterprise Edition, Standard Edition 2 & Personal Edition. Weblogic is also sold in…
Answer a YES or a NO to each of the questions below. Then tally the numbers to check your Oracle Audit Temperature. Have you undergone a hardware consolidation or infrastructure modernisation in the last 18 months? Are you using virtualisation software such as VMware in your Oracle data centres? Do you have multiple production…
What is an incident? An incident is defined as “An unplanned interruption that causes, may cause, or reduces the quality of an IT Service. What is Incident Management? Incident Management is defined as “The process that aims to restore normal service operation as fast as possible, minimizing the impact on the business and end user….
Is cloud going to kill the necessity for Software Asset Management? Well, cloud computing is definitely going to change the playfield for Software Asset Management (SAM). But instead of killing the necessity it rather provides more opportunities. Software Asset Management is all about the interaction between technology, policies and humans. This interaction stays the same,…
Add the following bullet points to your risk register and diarise to check every quarter : Do you have plans to roll out a new data centre? Have you made a large hardware purchase or are refreshing server and storage hardware in any of your data centres? Are you implementing or thinking about a…
Similarities between Oracle and IBM CPU-based licensing By Sharon Trembley, Miro Consulting Blogs (link to original post at the end of this article, posted here through WordPress share) IBM earnings missed their quarter. IBM’s CEO, Virginia Rometty, had an internal IBM session asking employees to ‘step up’ and ‘work faster’. I read about it online from…
It’s no secret that Microsoft is a hotbed of change right now. As the company transitions from a traditional software provider to a device and services company, the impacts can be felt in virtually every aspect of its business, including the Enterprise Agreement (EA) renewal process. Those customers that anticipate a run-of-the-mill EA renewal in…