The issue of compliance is forever on the minds of IT executives, and even more so in the last 10 years, due to increased audit activities by software vendors, complex licensing rules and the ...

ITASCA, IL--(Marketwired - Jun 24, 2014) - Flexera Software, the leading provider of next-generation software licensing, compliance and installation solutions for application producers and enterprises ...

SCHAUMBURG, IL--(Marketwire - Dec 6, 2012) - Software license compliance audits are an established industry practice by which vendors are allowed to investigate customers' actual software usage, and ...

Law360 (February 28, 2007, 12:00 AM EST) -- One area where companies can easily get into trouble is having unlicensed software on company computers. Computer software ...

That ticking sound you hear is the time bomb waiting to go off in your company's IT organization, where more likely than not your company is at risk of failing a software audit. According to a new ...

Software audits are on the rise, and no matter what data you cite, licensing and tracking compliance stack up as complicated challenges for all but the smallest organizations. More than a third (37%) ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. Remaining in compliance with software license agreements can be a juggling act for many organizations. Many sources ...

IT would be so much easier if it weren’t for end users. They don’t read the manuals, they install applications with carefree abandon, they ignore security vulnerabilities – because that’s IT’s job, ...

Not long ago, software licensing was the quiet part of the business. You picked a model, shipped a product, collected the check, and moved on. Today, licensing is suddenly in the spotlight—not because ...

Software is everywhere -- in mobile devices, commercial equipment, desktop applications, network servers and more. It's difficult to find a device that doesn't contain software. But where does that ...

The brand-new CIO of a large financial services organization had been on the job less than a week when a major software vendor handed him a bill for unauthorized usage to the tune of $1 million. By ...

You don’t have to be pirating software to get in trouble during a compliance audit. “Where companies get ensnared is in the deployment phase. It’s not that they are trying to get away without paying, ...