Livingstone Group's Software Asset Management and Licensing specialists provide insights and experiences through our monthly Industry Highlights. These insights are a compilation of news and press releases that may impact your business’s upcoming software renewals and estate.
Financial Year Ends:
Financial year end occurs over the next few months for several major software publishers. Business’s should review any non-compliance and risk factors as they may be able to exploit the software publisher year end for better than average pricing as sales teams chase their year-end targets.
Monthly News and Press Releases:
Financial Q4 2021 results:
Financial results published by major software publishers may be useful to indicate the approach of a software publisher towards any renewals your company has with them:
Acquisitions:
Acquisitions of a software publisher may impact your ongoing relationship with them and renewals. This may also imply there could be a change in the licensing of any acquired products in the foreseeable future.
- Microsoft acquires Ally.io: >> Read more <<
- Ericsson to acquire Vonage: >> Read more <<
- McAfee acquired by an investor group: >> Read more <<
Industry News:
- IBM completes separation from Kyndryl: >> Read more <<
- Microsoft and Kyndryl establish global strategic partnership: >> Read more <<
- IBM unveils 127-Qubit Quantum Processor: >> Read more <<
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