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,” ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

Contrary to what you may believe, purchasing software rarely means you own it. In reality, the software most often still belongs to the company or developer and what you purchase is a software license ...

Jeff VanBemmel, director of end user operations at VA’s Office of Information and Technology, told lawmakers that the department’s total inventory of software licenses includes 4,433 commercial ...

Phil Bertolini, CIO of Oakland County, Mich., doesn’t have time to market his Web hosting services to neighboring cities — but he wouldn’t mind if his vendors did it for him. In fact, Bertolini wants ...

Business licenses are essential formalities that legally permit the operation of businesses within a specific jurisdiction. They are the government’s way of ensuring that companies abide by the ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In their work discussing the history of software licensing, intellectual property scholars Michael L. Rustad and Maria Vittoria Onufrio ...