Five Best Practices for Streamlining Electronic Licensing Operations
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(Source: Macrovision)  There is a significant increase in electronic licensing among software publishers. In this paper, Macrovision outlines the business processes that make up the license lifecycle. The paper concludes with a brief description of how Nokia successfully anticipated and addressed operational issues prior to launching electronic licensing in their products.
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An investor's guide to service-oriented architecture
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New dual-core processors will make conventional software licensing models obsolete. What's next?
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(Source: Oracle) John Laughhunn, CTO of A.T. Kearney, and Amin Negandhi, CEO of Echelon Consulting, explain how A.T. Kearney consultants worldwide can securely search for information across multiple applications using IC Tracker, an internal knowledgebase. In this engaging 30 minute session, they discuss the requirements, selection process, implementation and roll-out of their system, and how it has enabled secure access to intellectual property to become a competitive differentiator.
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Documents recommended configurations and platforms, pre-installation tasks, recommended procedures, known issues and workarounds, and more.
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(InfoWorld) - At its partner conference this week MicrosoftÂ released new tools to help partners navigate two of the company's more complicated offerings: product licensing and the Windows Vista client OS. The licensing tool, called Microsoft LicenseWise, builds upon a previously released tool for Microsoft customers, Product License Advisor. Product License Advisor helps customers configure an IT environment and generate a report online that would tell them what licenses they would need and the cost, Mike Oldham, general manager for Microsoft's worldwide licensing and pricing, said in an interview at the Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference in Denver. LicenseWise picks up for Microsoft's business partners where that tool leaves off, he said. It allows a partner to access a quote a customer generated in Product License Advisor, build its own pricing into it, and then generate a proposal back to the customer for how much it would cost to license those products through the partner. Microsoft's complicated licensing schemes have long been a headache for partners and customers, but the company has made a concerted effort in the past several years to simplify the process, Oldham said. For instance, just two years ago, Microsoft had 74 licensing models customers could choose from; now they have nine, he said. More information about LicenseWise can be found on Microsoft's partner Web site. The new Vista tool also is an extension of software that is already available, called Windows Vista Hardware Assessment, said Mike Sievert, corporate vice president of the Windows business group. That application helps business users see how much effort it will take to migrate desktops in a company to Vista by testing the hardware and device-driver capability of PCs against the OS and issuing reports about those results The new tool, Windows Vista Business Value Assessment, allows partners to sit down with customers to not only assess how Vista will impact their network, but also figure out how to improve the TCO (total cost of ownership) of the installation, Sievert said. TCO is "front and center on the minds of our customers" when it comes to Vista, he said. Sievert acknowledged that business customers are still in the early stages of deploying the OS, which was released to business customers last November, so it's important Microsoft articulate how to upgrade to Vista in the most cost-effective way possible.
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Safend, an international provider of endpoint i
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The ground rules of the tests of Cisco and Avaya systems.
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Many organizations allocate large resources to implement and deploy packaged ERP, CRM and SCM applications. Now these organizations need to move away from operational efficiency gains achieved and into leveraging their data for performance management and business intelligence.
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David Wheeler presents an introduction to the Bricolage content management system (CMS).
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This article provides an overview of ITIL, a management-level set of best practices and guidelines for an integrated and process-based approach to IT and security.
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(Source: HP)  This paper offers a structured approach to planning and implementing HP Quality Center software, an integrated, web-based suite of tools and best practices for automated software quality testing.
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Faced with an explosion of communications tools such as wikis, blogs and instant messaging, companies continue to wrestle with the logistics of compliance and control. Some enterprises, however, are finding a positive path.
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Restrictive hardware and convoluted rights management crimp consumer choices.
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A Forrester study finds that corporate users are becoming increasingly frustrated with the license and maintenance costs of enterprise applications.
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It appears software vendors and their customers are at opposite ends of the spectrum when it comes to newfangled licensing techniques.
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Software publishers and users are at odds about software licensing, according a study released Monday.