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6 Microsoft Audit Triggers
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Did you know your Microsoft Reseller can tell Microsoft to audit you? For the last several years, Microsoft and other software vendors have been pressuring their customers with audits. The reasons were many and include stagnant revenue, recovery from the economic turmoil of the preceding decade, changes in corporate direction, and more. Microsoft turned to software audits to compel organizations to transition to products and services that fit their “Mobile First, Cloud First” strategy.  So what triggers these audits? What […]

Adobe Has A New Way of Tracking Non-Licensed Software
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Adobe’s new Genuine Software Integrity Service validates installed Adobe Software.  It automatically checks for counterfeit software, invalid licenses and alerts Adobe of fraudulent use. The process looks for illegitimate serial number and if it includes software hacks. Once verified, Adobe notifies the company/violator that their software is not genuine. Companies still should have a program in place to track the full lifecycle of their software assets, to have full control and understanding on: Software requests vs Actual software need Centralized […]

Microsoft Replaces CRM Online with Dynamics 365 and Increases Prices
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In October 2016, Microsoft announced that it was no longer going to sell the CRM Online suite.  Current users of the product will now be forced to buy Dynamics 365.  For some users this may amount to a small decrease in the price of the subscription, but for many it will be much more. CRM Online offered different per user, per month prices for different levels of functionality: Professional – $50 Basic – $23 Employee Self Service – $2 Now […]

Office 365 Price Tiers Provide Less Value Than Other Microsoft Product
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Price tiers for Office 365 represent only a 3% difference from the preceding level rather than the more traditional 7+% for other products. Both of these are reflective of cost and budgeting. For Windows Server / System Center, the cost of licensing larger servers (that is, with more cores per processor) will increase. Organizations may have opted – or are contemplating – these denser servers as a way to increase capacity and workload while constraining additional software license investment. For […]

Microsoft Moves to “Per Core” Licensing for Windows Server
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Microsoft has (pretty predictably) moved to “Per Core” licensing for Windows Server, just like SQL Server before it. This is more to the trend of denser servers – that is, with more and more cores per server – and, possibly, in a nod to Azure. It’s been pretty well documented, but there are minimums: A minimum of 16 core licenses is required for each server. A minimum of 8 core licenses is required for each physical processor. And, like for […]

Miro Consulting Celebrates 15 Year Anniversary with Record Breaking Growth
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Miro Consulting, the world’s leading software license management expert, is celebrating its 15-year anniversary with record breaking growth in revenue and headcount. “Miro Consulting had an impressive revenue surge in Fiscal 2016, with a record breaking number of new clients. Through our consulting services, our clients were able to save over $100 million dollars this year alone. This success is a testament to our dedicated and talented employees who work as trusted partners with our clients. We are looking forward […]

Oracle’s Compliance and Optimization Licenses Service Unit (COLS) is closing down
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The Register is reporting that Oracle’s “Compliance and Optimization License Services Unit (COLS) is being shut down.  With about 150 people in the UK and EMEA, COLS was created to support the LMS division, which was reportedly not meeting its goals. Where LMS operates in a more precise manner when reviewing licensing compliance, COLS was more of a division of the sales operation, specializing in cutting deals and giving discounts. The Register’s source is reported as saying “LMS auditors do […]

Data Breach at Oracle’s MICROS Division – KrebsonSecurity.com
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Krebsonsecurity.com is reporting that a Russian organized cybercrime syndicate has compromised MICROS point-of-sale support portal. Oracle responded that they had “detected and addressed malicious code in certain legacy MICROS systems”. The hackers placed malicious code on the MICROS support portal and captured customers usernames and passwords when they logged in. Its reported that over 700 systems have been infected. Oracle will force all support accounts on the MICROS portal to do a password reset, adding “We also recommend that you […]

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