Software licensing costs are set to fall over the next decade as IT industry trends converge to give buyers more bargaining power. Analyst Gartner predicts vendors will find themselves increasingly ...

Open source software (OSS) has become an indispensable element of modern technological ecosystems, enabling global collaboration, rapid innovation and widespread access to cutting‐edge tools. Central ...

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Many organisations can cut spending on software by as much as 30% by implementing three software licence optimisation best practices, according to Gartner. The keys to reducing software licence ...

The district court of Hamburg has ruled against SAP, over its case against a German second-user software license reseller. The court’s decision builds on a 2012 European Court of Justice landmark ...

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This is a guide to how to license research software. It collects together the advice we give to researchers on how to license research software. It is not exhaustive. Please get in touch if you think ...

Research software, whether it be a few lines of code or a full library, is a key element of the research process and making sure it is openly available allows others to correctly analyse your data, ...

Software licences can easily trip up organisations, putting them at risk of compliance action. Speaking to Computer Weekly, senior software asset management consultant Rory Canavan warned that, in ...

We list the best software asset management (SAM) tools, to make it simple and easy to better organize and control your software licenses and your spend on them. Software is a vital part of every ...