Secondary Software Market – Guide and Commentary
The Secondary Software Market, created by an EU-ruling in 2012, is not just about sourcing second-hand copies of old licenses, or getting some money back for your now redundant Office licenses. In preparing a guide to this market I interviewed David Chamberlain, General Manager of License Dashboard, and Chris Morgan, CEO of Astute Licensing. Chris and David have recently assisted clients transacting...
How pre-owned software reduces the impact of Microsoft price increases
This article was co-authored with Michael Vilain, Director of International Sales at CapeFoxx AG.
Microsoft price increases
Microsoft is increasing Office/Microsoft 365 prices in March 2022, with several products seeing double-digit rises:
Office 365 E1 – 25% up
Office 365 E3 – 15% up
Office 365 E5 – 8.6% up
Microsoft 365 E3 – 12.5% up
There are several options for an asset manager to mitigate...
What is Secondary Software?
Whiteboard Wednesday Episode 25: What is the secondary software?
Welcome to Whiteboard Wednesday, this week, what is the secondary software market?
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Quest software audit goes to court
In December 2019, Fairview Health Services, a non-profit organisation, informed Quest that they wouldn’t be renewing support for their “Active Roles” licenses; this move seemingly prompted Quest to launch an audit.
The reconciliation summary from Quest found the customer to be under-licensed…by 69,064 licenses, with an audit total came to $4,183,178.85. The available court documents state...
Brexit & Secondary Software: What’s the impact?
This article was written by Rich Gibbons, ITAM Review, and Noel Unwin, Discount Licensing.
Following the decision made by the United Kingdom (UK) to leave the European Union (EU) on 31st January 2020, negotiations between the UK Government and the EU continue.
The ‘transitional’ period is currently due to end on 31st December 2020 and whilst there is still uncertainty from the UK Government and...
Second-hand Software: Legalities & Business Models
This article was written by Rich Gibbons of ITAM Review and Noel Unwin of Discount Licensing.
In July 2012, the second-hand software market received a definitive answer from the European Court of Justice (ECJ) when it ruled that reselling intangible software was legal. The rights of the software vendor to control the resale of the software copy is ‘exhausted’ after the first sale of the copy (Exhaustion...
Market Guide – Secure Hard Drive Erasure
This month’s Market Guide looks at options for managing assets at the end of the ITAM lifecycle. A vital part of Retire is ensuring that all data has been removed from assets prior to disposal. This is a wide-ranging area (for example, you may be surprised to hear that printers can store vast amounts of confidential data) but this guide looks at options for secure hard drive erasure.
A growing...
ITAM Process Automation Tools – Market Guide
January’s Market Guide looks at tools for ITAM Process Automation. As our roles as IT Asset Managers mature there is a need to deal efficiently with day-to-day operational demands on our time, and automation is a way of doing this whilst still retaining oversight & control. For many organisations, ITAM Process Automation will be an extension of existing IT Service Management processes, ensuring...
Introducing – ITAM Review SaaS Market Guide
The ITAM Review are delighted to announce the publication of a Market Guide for SaaS Optimisation & Subscription Management tools. This is the first in a series of Market Guides, to be published monthly, looking at various aspects of the ITAM tools and services market.
Future guides will include;
IaaS Optimisation
ITAM Operations Automation
Risk Management
Secondary Software Market
We’ll also...
Second hand software licensing market finally gaining traction, large European corporates saving millions
A market surplus of perpetual Microsoft Office licenses provides significant savings for organizations looking to address compliance shortfalls or growth capacity for legacy versions of Office.
European SAM teams have been able to buy and sell software licensing on the secondary market since the EU ruling in 2012, but it seems that only now is the market beginning to gain significant traction.
I recently...