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 ...

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 ...

There are several types of software license audits, each with their own risks and variables, experts say. Trade groups like the Business Software Alliance often ask companies to conduct “self-audits,” ...

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 ...

Software licensing audits—and any resulting fines—are a key piece of the software delivery model, and most enterprise sites have been subjected to audits by one or more vendors in the past 3 years. It ...

In April 2022, we composed an article titled, “The Weaponization of Software License Audits.” It focused on how software license audits have long been used as a successful, revenue-generating tool for ...