The judges for the 2016 Technology Innovator Awards have selected Rentsoft Meter™ from The Business Software Centre as the Best Software Licensing Intelligence Solution. The 2016 Technology Innovator Awards only reward the very best from across the industry and highlight the individuals behind these ongoing and world-changing developments. The judging Read more
Today there are millions of people working in jobs developing, marketing and using computer software. However, few people realise the whole software industry can be traced back to a female US Navy reservist who learnt computer programming in World War II. US Navy Reservist Grace M. Hopper was part of Read more
Have you had any plan for this New Year Resolution? Will we start with your software licensing to turn it a dream? Over £1.7 billion is wasted every year in the UK on unused software and associated services. And this is primarily due to organisations paying for things they are Read more
Last December was a bad month for local government. The Chancellor grabbed another £1.9bn from council budgets, at a time when they needed more money, not less. So what can public-sector IT departments do to help? It’s time for them to discover IT asset, understand more about their IT assets Read more
The Business Software Centre (TBSC) recently conducted research with 160 local government organizations across the UK. The results reveal that a majority of organizations (78%) are using a SAM tool. However, on average, the councils that use SAM tools spend 23% more on Microsoft software licenses than those who have Read more
If you go into a negotiation with software vendor with no knowledge of what you are actually using, then you could end up buying software you don’t need. Yet 70% of IT professionals find themselves in this position when they negotiate their software agreements. The data that software buyers should Read more
ICT Managers must Adopt Professional Standards to take their rightful place at the heart of organisational strategy says UKCHIP Chairman. UK ICT Management now has a big opportunity to raise its profile and enhance its reputation and professional standing says Gwyn Thomas, Chairman of UKCHIP (The UK Council for Health Read more
Quite simply, for government entities affiliated with creating and enforcing laws, failure to comply with license requirements would result in a public relations nightmare. The very thought of software representatives appearing at the public agency’s door, and possibly finding that not all of the entity’s software is fully licensed, is Read more
According to the latest report delivered by United States Government Accountability Office in May 2014, all of twenty four assessed federal agencies are not adequately managing their software licenses because they generally do not follow leading practices in this area with software metering. The potential savings could be significant considering Read more
In the DCLG document “50 ways to save – Examples of sensible savings in local government”, Eric Pickles suggests that councils can save money by conducting a review of software licenses across the authority. Many organizations purchase more software licenses than they need because they have no way of knowing Read more