Are AI agents employees or tools? A Microsoft exec suggested they're new paid "seats," a shift that could reshape SaaS ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--The business of selling software is due for an extreme makeover, industry executives said at the SoftSummit conference here. The trouble, they said, is the industry's rigid focus ...

The authorization to use software. Most software is licensed rather than sold, which means purchasers are never the actual owners of the software, although they may be able to use it without any time ...

Microsoft, for example, shifted its Office suite to Microsoft 365, ensuring that users are locked into monthly or annual ...

Microsoft Gets License to Resume Software Sales to Huawei Whether this means a revival of Huawei's Windows laptop development is still in question. Although the license is for 'mass-market software,' ...

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 ...

Report: Nearly half of software licenses are unused, wasting $44M+ per month Your email has been sent Almost half of all installed software and licensed SaaS ...

Open source software is ubiquitous. Most people understand that not all open source is the same. Open source licenses can vary significantly in terms of what they allow and disallow you to do with the ...

No one likes to be audited. On its own, the word “audit” implies wrongdoing or, at the least, carelessness. Opening the books particularly stings when the subject of an audit believes that every ...

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 ...

BNP Paribas said their research showed that for Synopsys (SNPS), meaningfully raising software license prices will be hard, and it may take a two-to-three-year timeline for pricing changes. "EDA ...

Earlier this month we covered the brewing controversy over libogc, the community-developed C library that functions as the backbone for GameCube and Wii homebrew software. Questions about how much of ...