You don’t have to be pirating software to get in trouble during a compliance audit. “Where companies get ensnared is in the deployment phase. It’s not that they are trying to get away without paying, ...

LicenseFortress®, the leading independent software licensing advisory firm, is warning organizations about the accelerating rise of what it calls Ambush Audits™—vendor-initiated information-gathering ...

Facing a trying economy and decreasing new license revenue, enterprise software vendors are turning to more frequent license audits to turn up missing revenue. A Gartner survey revealed increasing ...

It was hard enough to manage IT infrastructures when everything was on-premise only. But today, with combined on-premise and multi-cloud deployments, say Michael Corey, co-founder, LicenseFortress, ...

LOS ANGELES--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Mid-sized companies were more frequently subjected to software license audits in the past three years, and more than half of audited companies paid up to $1 million in ...

Many organizations still remember the sting of being a victim of the dreaded patent trolls. Patents were granted to encourage, recognize, and reward innovation. Awarding the inventors with a ...

A New York manufacturer is suing ERP (enterprise resource planning) vendor Infor following a dispute over whether it should have to pay nearly US$150,000 in additional license fees. BMP America, maker ...