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Reduce the administrative burden and costs of contract management

The Insight Software Licensing Team Helps You Focus on Your Core Business
Keeping track of your organization's software technology presents a unique set of challenges. In contrast to hardware, software is difficult to pin down and control. Often, software licenses speak primarily to a legal audience, not the average IT manager. If your goal is to effectively manage your organization's software assets, you either need a thorough understanding of software licensing or a partnership with someone who has one.

Insight's Software Licensing team works with your sales representative to cut through the complexities of the many agreements offered by the software manufacturers we represent. We help you choose the right agreement and maintain a grip on your software assets and costs. With Insight on your side, you can reduce the burden of contract management and be assured you've made the right decision regarding any licensing agreement you enter into.

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Dedicated Teams With Focused Competency
Insight's Centers of Excellence are dedicated teams with focused competency in specific emerging and complex technologies. Regardless of its area of expertise, each center subscribes to the same code of excellence in continually refreshing its knowledge and expertise; educating customers about future opportunities and challenges; analyzing, evaluating and refining processes to establish new best practices; and fostering creativity among our team of experts, manufacturers and alliance partners to develop new ideas that will advance technology use and delivery.

Our Software Licensing Programs support our sales representatives with in-depth knowledge and expertise in the software licensing programs that govern the use of your valuable software technology investments. Our licensing experts are well versed in all of the agreements of our many manufacturers, so they can identify the best arrangements for your specific business situation.

Software Licensing Made Simple
The software you "buy" isn't really traditional property, it's intellectual property. So while some uses may be included in the purchase price, others may be highly restricted and require express permission. In either case, your license will dictate the appropriate use of the software and the restrictions that apply.
This can include an array of issues, such as how (or if) the software can be copied, modified, distributed and used. As a result, there are an infinite number of variables that can affect software licensing and, in turn, your usage restrictions and costs. Understanding them all can be time consuming and difficult.

Insight software licensing experts work with your Insight sales representative to ensure that you are operating under the kind of agreement that fits your usage and budgetary requirements.

A Complete Range of Software Contract Support Services
At Insight, we can help you with all the issues that impact your software licensing agreements before, during and after your purchase. We offer a complete range of support services throughout the life of your agreement:

Baseline Inventory
Insight can provide you with a purchase history as a baseline hardware inventory to help you complete software publisher licensing qualifications.

Cost Analysis
We prepare a cost analysis and model for comparing volume-licensing agreements to other options. This gives you a detailed cost-benefit analysis that compares applicable volume licensing, OEM and shrink wrap options.

Contract and License Rights Consulting
We offer guidance and understanding of contracts and assist in completing and reviewing your contracts. We help you understand the publisher contract requirements and minimize the costs of compliance.

Financing
Insight provides financing terms to assist you in procuring the software you need with flexible payment options.

Implementation Plan
We help you implement new contracts within your organization so you can maximize the effectiveness of your volume-licensing agreement.

Software Deployment and Migration
We support you in your software deployment and migration strategies. For example, we can tell you which versions you can upgrade from/to and suggest competitive upgrades when they are available.
Software Tracking
We provide reports that help you with license compliance and forecast commitments. This information helps you comply with contract terms and legal obligations and includes valuable purchasing trend information.

Advanced Integration Lab
Our integration lab can preinstall software that you intend to deploy and use. This ensures consistent and complete configuration of your systems and helps you stay focused on core business activities.

License/Contract Administration
We report all software consumption on your behalf to software publishers with whom you have software licensing agreements. This helps reduce volume- license administrative costs.

Avoid Liabilities
Whatever your type of license agreement, it carries with it a legal obligation to abide by its terms. Violate those terms and you could be exposing your business to liabilities.

For example, the most common type of license, an end-user license agreement (EULA), may allow installation on multiple computers as long as only one is running at a time, or it may allow only one copy to be loaded on only one computer. Site-license agreements may grant your organization the permission to copy and distribute a software product internally, but with a complex range of restrictions and specific limits on the number of user "seats."

Insight software licensing experts understand the intricacies of all types of agreements, from the most simple to the most complex. They help ensure you only enter an agreement that allows you the types of access and usage your business requires.
Insight Software Licensing Process:

Phase 1-
With our assistance, your Insight sales representative helps you determine the type of licensing that is appropriate for your particular needs and budget.

Phase 2-
We work behind the scenes to report all software consumption on your behalf to software publishers and protect you from liability.

Phase 3-
During the life of your agreement, we keep you informed of licensing changes, new upgrades and compliance and renewal issues.

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