ZDNET's key takeaways Per-seat software licenses may soon be obsolete.Most software will soon be purchased by agents.Prepare ...

Contrary to what you may believe, purchasing software rarely means you own it. In reality, the software most often still belongs to the company or developer and what you purchase is a software license ...

In a statement released today, CEO Dan Herbatschek emphasized that organizations must quickly adapt their digital strategies, procurement practices, and data architecture to remain competitive.

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 ...

Value stream management involves people in the organization to examine workflows and other processes to ensure they are deriving the maximum value from their efforts while eliminating waste — of ...

The federal government spends approximately $19 billion per year on software. And mounting evidence from government watchdog groups reveals that much of this strategic expenditure is being needlessly ...

A study has found that companies are finding software licensing a problem to manage in the Sarbanes-Oxley era, where 72 percent of those surveyed still do not monitor their licenses or are only doing ...

A Coalition for Fair Software Licensing lobbying group has launched, aiming to remedy "anticompetitive software licensing practices." The group, consisting of "more than a dozen companies," was ...

Brien M. Posey is a freelance technical writer who has contributed to dozens of books and is a six-time Microsoft MVP award winner. With public-sector budgets being notoriously tight, it is more ...