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Licensing Solutions
Respecting intellectual property rights laws benefits everyone. It strengthens economies, creates job opportunities, protects honest workers from losing their jobs to criminals, stimulates technological progress, and gives customers the genuine software experience they deserve while protecting them from becoming victims.
It's our role to understand your business and creating a plan that ensures you remain compliant with licensing law at a minimum cost and avoid the over-licensing trap.
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License Types
There are a number of ways of buying software applications, for Microsoft products these are:
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Software that comes with new hardware benefits from reduced prices as the license is tied to the hardware it is supplied with. So if you buy OEM Microsoft Office and you redelpoy the computer you are NOT permitted to reinstall the software on your new PC.
OEM - Original Equipment Manufacturer
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| Retail or FPP |
Software in retail packs is more expensive than the same software in an OEM offering, you do benefit by being able to install the software on a new computer, this does require that you aren't still using it on the old computer.
FPP - Fully Packaged Product
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| OPEN |
There are a number of different schemes under the OPEN umbrella, offering range of features, benefits and payment options.
With price advantages for volume purchasing, these Microsoft Volume Licensing programs provide convenience and flexibility for small organizations:
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Open Value: Optimal for organizations that want to standardize their IT infrastructure and maximize their investment with Software Assurance. You can also upgrade at any time—no need to track versions or open new agreements.
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Open Value Subscription: Get the benefits of Open Value with lower up-front costs and the ability to increase or decrease license count on an annual basis to accommodate changes in desktop PC count.
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Open License: Entry-level program that allows you to start using software immediately and pay as you go.
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Some business are tempted to use acamdemic licenses, after all the software is exactly the same and is only a fraction of the cost, this of course is illegal
Academic Licensing
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Vendor Licensing Schemes
We are able to offer licensing for sofware from all the leading vendors, including
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Recent Cases
From The Register: "Sheffield Teaching Hospitals are to pay £13,000 for inadequate software licensing, after an ex-staff member reported them to the Federation Against Software Theft." 
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