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Microsoft Customer Agreement: The way forward?
Earlier in 2019, we saw the introduction of the “Microsoft Customer Agreement” (MCA) – a new agreement aimed at customers buying Azure directly from Microsoft, but that also featured a new type and style of agreement. ... -
Dear Microsoft, please stop abusing the word “SAM”
I met with Patama Chantaruck back in 2017, former global Microsoft SAM lead, who was honest enough to admit that Microsoft had confused their customers and partners, using the word SAM to represent soft audits and ... -
SAP's Digital Access Adoption Programme (DAAP) aims to kickstart indirect licensing decisions
SAP’s Digital Access Adoption Programme (DAAP) is an attempt to kickstart conversations about indirect access licensing, according to SAP expert Sebastian Schoofs at Voquz. In this podcast, Sebastian shares his insights from attending SAP’s annual user ... -
Microsoft and Oracle = Frenemies, Flexera's RISCy business, plus Salesforce & Google want a piece of the BI
Microsoft and Oracle make friends? Splinter and Shredder. Odysseus and Poseidon. Roy Keane and Patrick Vieira. There are some people you just wouldn’t expect to see on the same team. When it comes to the world ... -
Software Asset Management: The alternative to the Windows 7 (further) extended support date
By Sean Robinson of License Dashboard Last month, Matt Barlow, Corporate Vice President at Windows confirmed it will begin prompting users still running Windows 7 to visit Microsoft sites to understand their options regarding the upcoming ... -
IBM Mainframe licensing changes: what’s old is new
Some of you may be surprised to learn that IBM mainframes are still a thing, while others will still have them as a key part of your infrastructure. In fact, according to Datacenter Knowledge, IBM mainframe ... -
ServiceNow Knowledge 19: Stay hungry, Stay Foolish
ServiceNow Knowledge 2019 20,000 attendees and 200 partners met in Las Vegas to gorge on all things ServiceNow for their annual “Knowledge 19” conference at the start of May. Due to the sheer volume of IT ... -
Dell + Microsoft = VMware on Azure
Running VMware workloads on Microsoft Azure was first discussed towards the end of 2017, around the same time “VMware Cloud on AWS” was launched. There then followed a blog post from VMware taking a few shots ... -
Market Guide - Office 365 Optimisation
April’s Market Guide looks at options for Office 365 optimisation. With Microsoft becoming the single largest SaaS provider it is likely that they will be the first enterprise-wide SaaS vendor IT Asset Managers need to get ...