Harness the Data You Need to Optimize Your Software Licensing MetrixData 360 and SLIM 360, as software licensing management tools, provide the data you need to optimize your software licensing, reduce costs, and ensure compliance. With comprehensive and customized reporting, you…
SLIM 360: The Only Tool You Need to Control Licensing Costs
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Hard Savings vs. Soft Savings
Soft Savings vs. Hard Savings in Software Asset Management Savings are what makes the software asset management world go ‘round; it’s what all the SAM tool vendors preach and it’s one of the main reasons people get into software asset…
5 Key Traits to Winning Contract Negotiations
Contract negotiation is not an exact science, it is an art form and to be successful at contract negotiation it takes the right frame of mind. Personality plays a large role in how your contract negotiation will play out and it…
Software Contract Negotiation (When You Don’t Have the Upper Hand)
How to Negotiate Software Contracts When You Have No Second Option Software contract negotiations can be difficult, frustrating, and exasperating. But they can also be tolerable when it feels like you have cards of your own to lay on the table….
Mike’s Minute: Negotiating a Microsoft Audit or SAM Engagement
I enjoy reading inspirations and thought provoking quotes every now and again. I found one recent, that was from John F Kennedy about negotiating that I believe applies to negotiating a Microsoft audit. Since JFK was a President, he found himself…
How to Negotiate Software Contracts During Mass Corporate Layoffs
If your business is one of the thousands going through tough times during this pandemic, you find yourself budgeting just to keep the lights on and sadly, that means you may be forced to lay off or put on furlough your…
Negotiating a Microsoft Enterprise Agreement: What to Expect
Microsoft is Changing How it Negotiates EA Renewals: Here’s What You Need to Know to Prepare If you’re a part of a large company with at least 250 devices, chances are you have some sort of an Enterprise Agreement (EA) in…