Livingstone Group's Software Asset Management and Licensing specialists provide insights and experiences through our monthly Industry Highlights. These insights area compilation of news and press releases that may impact your business’s upcoming software renewals and software 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.
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Monthly Vendor News and Press Releases:
Financial year 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:
Industry News
- Broadcom in talks to acquire VMware: Read More
- Microsoft makes changes to licensing policies for EU Cloud Provider: Read More
- Microsoft to retire 24x7 Problem Solution Support: Read More
- IBM sign deal with Amazon Web Services to deliver IBM SaaS: Read More
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