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Software licensing

• August 10, 2015 10 Aug'15

  Business process automation fills people gap in Australia and New Zealand

  Business process automation technology is more about helping businesses in Australia and New Zealand overcome staff shortages, than about cutting costs.

• July 31, 2015 31 Jul'15

  Interview: CCS director Sarah Hurrell on improving government technology purchasing

  The government's procurement agency has plenty of critics, but its technology lead insists that IT and digital purchasing is improving fast

• July 28, 2015 28 Jul'15

  IoT device makers stand to lose out on software licensing revenues, warns Gartner

  Gartner claims many IoT device manufacturers could lose out on recurring revenues by failing to safeguard their software investments

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  CIOs need to reboot supplier relationships

  IT leaders need to rethink the balance of spending between maintaining traditional suppliers and introducing innovative new providers

• July 21, 2015 21 Jul'15

  Software audits cut government IT bill by £85m in 2014/15

  Annual accounts for the government purchasing agency show at least £220m in technology related savings

• July 07, 2015 07 Jul'15

  Microsoft Azure price hike to hit cloud users in the Eurozone from 1 August

  The on-going economic instability affecting Europe could prompt further price increases from Microsoft and others, analysts warn

• June 30, 2015 30 Jun'15

  Top suppliers as UK software and services market approaches £50bn

  The top five software and IT services firms in the UK are Capita, HP, IBM, Capgemini and Accenture, according to the latest figures from TechMarketView

• June 18, 2015 18 Jun'15

  Oracle sets sights on cloud cash cow in shift from perpetual licensing

  Oracle reports Q4 operating income of $4bn on revenues of $10.7bn as it turns from software licensing towards 'stunningly profitable' cloud business

• May 19, 2015 19 May'15

  Canonical offers SaaS pricing for on-site VMs and storage

  Open source supplier Canonical has introduced software as a service pricing for on-premise storage in a move that could change the way traditional software is licensed

• May 13, 2015 13 May'15

  Standard Chartered moves 90,000 staff to Jive

  Standard Chartered bank is using software from Jive to support collaboration between 90,000 employees in 70 countries

• May 06, 2015 06 May'15

  EMC courts developers with open-source storage software push

  Storage giant wants to make it easier for developers to get hold of its software and accelerate app development times

• April 23, 2015 23 Apr'15

  Gartner: Enterprises opt for open-source and cloud middleware alternatives

  Gartner has reported a bigger focus on subscription-based licensing and open-source platforms in the middleware market

• April 17, 2015 17 Apr'15

  Payments firm Monitise puts application programming interfaces in cloud to provide services

  Monitise puts its application programming interfaces (APIs) in the cloud for banks and payment firms to use its technology in their services

• March 30, 2015 30 Mar'15

  Major software companies bamboozle local authorities with audits

  Software companies are resorting to audits and complex licensing in a bid to make more money from existing public sector customers

• February 25, 2015 25 Feb'15

  To partition or not to partition Oracle

  Oracle licence contracts are unclear on soft partitioning so CIOs need to get to the licence negotiation table to extract the best deal