You don’t have to be pirating software to get in trouble during a compliance audit. “Where companies get ensnared is in the deployment phase. It’s not that they are trying to get away without paying, ...

Facing a trying economy and decreasing new license revenue, enterprise software vendors are turning to more frequent license audits to turn up missing revenue. A Gartner survey revealed increasing ...

It was hard enough to manage IT infrastructures when everything was on-premise only. But today, with combined on-premise and multi-cloud deployments, say Michael Corey, co-founder, LicenseFortress, ...

Perhaps nothing is as heart-stopping as when the IRS auditors come a knockin', but the arrival of software vendors-with their audit checklists and licensing agreements in hand-isn't for the faint of ...

(TNS) — Fresno County paid IBM almost $2.3 million after a software-licensing audit revealed too many workers were using unlicensed IBM software in county departments. The bill, which was paid in ...

LicenseFortress®, the leading independent software licensing advisory firm, is warning organizations about the accelerating rise of what it calls Ambush Audits™—vendor-initiated information-gathering ...

Data-integration vendor Informatica and a customer are embroiled in a legal dispute over US$6.3 million in license fees that Informatica says it is owed due to noncompliance. Hospital Corporation of ...