The issue of compliance is forever on the minds of IT executives, and even more so in the last 10 years, due to increased audit activities by software vendors, complex licensing rules and the ...

Law360 (February 28, 2007, 12:00 AM EST) -- One area where companies can easily get into trouble is having unlicensed software on company computers. Computer software ...

That ticking sound you hear is the time bomb waiting to go off in your company's IT organization, where more likely than not your company is at risk of failing a software audit. According to a new ...

LOS ANGELES and SAN FRANCISCO, May 14, 2020 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- SmartFlow Compliance Solutions and Connor Consulting Corp today inked a strategic partnership to provide software vendors with license ...

Software audits are on the rise, and no matter what data you cite, licensing and tracking compliance stack up as complicated challenges for all but the smallest organizations. More than a third (37%) ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. Remaining in compliance with software license agreements can be a juggling act for many organizations. Many sources ...

IT would be so much easier if it weren’t for end users. They don’t read the manuals, they install applications with carefree abandon, they ignore security vulnerabilities – because that’s IT’s job, ...

Software licensing compliance has become a costly burden for enterprises, with more than a quarter of organizations now spending over $500,000 annually to resolve licensing non-compliance issues, ...

The brand-new CIO of a large financial services organization had been on the job less than a week when a major software vendor handed him a bill for unauthorized usage to the tune of $1 million. By ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--LicenseFortress, the only provider of a 100% guaranteed Oracle software license compliance solution, launched another industry first: The addition of specialized legal ...

Not long ago, software licensing was the quiet part of the business. You picked a model, shipped a product, collected the check, and moved on. Today, licensing is suddenly in the spotlight—not because ...

George Spalding: Usually, the [audited] companies hire a bunch of lawyers, and the lawyers from the software vendors sit down, and, basically, they come to an agreement. They negotiate the fines down.