One of the most common questions enterprises ask about software spend is whether they should benchmark the discounts they receive from software publishers.

​Since the advent of Microsoft Online Services commercial offering, one of the benefits marketed by the software giant was an improvement in the way customers could pay for the service.

Did you know most major software publishers actually have revenue targets directly tied to auditing their own customers?

If you are like most large Microsoft customers, you have either started or completed your journey to the Office 365 platform.

Over the past three years, Microsoft has been stealthily transitioning its product support model from its legacy Premiere Support to a new “modern” support model called Unified Support.

Microsoft, in recent years, has transformed itself from a software publisher to a software-as-a-service (SaaS) provider, leaving its enterprise customers uncertain about product licensing and the company’s commercial sales model.

As we enter the fourth quarter, many IT organizations are facing the end of one budget year and planning for the next.

Organizations often switch to default mode when selecting their cloud platform, basing their decision on familiarity

Now that Microsoft has crossed over the $100 billion annual sales threshold, it feels confident enough to say goodbye to the stratum of enterprise customers that license 500-2,500 users.

At Sapphire 2018, SAP unveiled how it has woven blockchain – along with analytics, artificial intelligence (AI) and the internet of things (IoT) – into its “intelligent enterprise” concept.

It will be important for each organization that uses SAP to embark on a careful strategy review – including discovery, scenario modeling, financial analysis and risk/reward decisioning – before determining its licensing path.

The backbone of the Microsoft machine, PC-based Windows, is entering the twilight of its existence.

You must have noticed that most, if not all, of your enterprise software suppliers have moved aggressively away from traditional software licensing models to hosted, service-based subscriptions.

Join ISG’s Bill Huber to explore how today’s leading enterprises are enhancing their software licensing to drive digital transformation at substantially lower cost.