Software Piracy Compliant Software licensing Solution for SMO

Best solution for SME to get compliant on software piracy.

If the customer purchased PCs. without Genuine software windows preinstalled by the manufacturer and used their volume licensing agreement to install full operating system on machines, or find counterfeit or illegal copy of software on systems, them they need some Microsoft certified partner’s to encounter software piracy, they will help the customer to review their licenses and get them into compliance.

Fight Software Piracy

Microsoft has introduced a solution to specially for Small and medium enterprises, and now customers can get their unlicensed, mis-licensed, under-licensed PCs can get compliant with latest operating systems , available, now  windows 7, upcoming very soon  Windows 8.

Genuine Software

Get genuine windows agreement for SMOs.(GGWA-SMO) help the customer to get their software license compliant under this program to encounter software piracy.

Customers GGWA-SMO through Volume Licensing Solution can bring their installed base of PCs into compliance. GGWA-SMO offers a full version of Windows 7 Professional operating system licenses to the customers who need optimal compliance solution for existing PCs. Customers will be eligible to enroll their licensed in Software Assurance (SA) within 90 days from the date of the GGWA-SMO purchase.

GGWA-SMO is a Volume licensing solution offering through Microsoft Authorized Distributor who can provide pricing and perform ordering for customer through certified partner base.

Note that, Windows 7 Professional media kits solution are not included, but consistent with any Microsoft Volume Licensing program, it should be ordered separately. If the customer is downgrading to a different Windows version, media kits can be ordered (up until the release of the next version of the Windows operating system) Normally Microsoft offers n-1 formula for downgrade. The customer can access Volume License Keys (VLK) by logging to volume licensing service center site or contacting the Product Activation Center.

Target audience for GGWA-SMO, 

Commercial and government customers with an installed base of PCs that need compliant Windows licenses

Product, Windows 7 Professional

Orderable quantity, Minimum five licenses, Re-ordering is allowed throughout the agreement term of two years.

Terms and conditions, 

Non-signed commitment to acquire only genuine Windows licenses going forward

License transfer rules are only allowed by agreement terms. Downgrade rights available.

GGWA and Open License terms and conditions apply.

Software Assurance can be purchased within 90 days through a Volume Licensing program, except through an Enterprise Agreement.

Hoping that above information on best solution for SME to get compliant on software piracy will help the customers in obtaining software and licensing compliant solution.

Microsoft Volume Licensing tips, How to add Software Assurance to OEM

Volume licensing

Microsoft Volume Licensing tips, How to add Software Assurance to OEM.

Software assurance in Volume Licensing is value added service offered to help their customers to get more benefits out from their software investment and increase their productivity, it offers several privileges like, 24/7 technical support, eLearning, upgrade rights, home use rights etc. it helps customer to reduce TCO, total cost of ownership for you software investment.

Now what you need to do in order to add software assurance to your OEM, you can qualify to add Software assurance under Microsoft Volume Licensing within 90 days from the purchase of OEM and you must have to minimum requirements for Microsoft Volume Licensing options. Now if you are eligible for SA then follow the instructions below.

You need to contact Microsoft certified partner in your locality, because Microsoft did not sells their products directly to end customer, so you need to pick your preferred partner who will be able to help you to decide best Microsoft Volume Licensing program. 

Select your preferred Microsoft Volume Licensing program, and after negotiations issue a Purchase order to your selected partner, to get delivery to software assurance benefits required.

Software assurance benefits can be activated by logging to Microsoft Volume Licensing centre site.

Hope this information will help you on above topic.

Windows 7, Computer Software Systems purchasing tips.

Windows 7, Computer Software Systems purchasing tips.

In this post we will discuss, how to purchase Windows 7, Computer software systems for Small and medium enterprises.

It is recommended to Purchase Computer Software Systems bundled with your Hardware at the time of purchasing the Hardware asset for your company, this type of software licensing is referred as OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) software licensing, and this is the cheapest way to acquire Computer System Software i.e. windows 7, for small and medium enterprises I personally recommend Windows 7 Pro under
OEM licensing program. It helps you to save money as well.

If you have older versions of Computer Software systems running on your computer hardware machines like Windows XP, or vista, and you wanted to use or acquire newer version of computer software systems like Windows 7 Pro, it is recommended to go for either Open license Program or Open Value Program both programs are designed specifically for small and medium enterprises.

Computer Software Systems

Note that Under Volume Licensing programs, Computer Software Systems licenses sold with upgrade option only.  So you must have to have base licensed Computer Software systems, operating system installed on your machines. In other words you are only eligible to purchase Windows 7 pro upgrade license if you are already using licensed versions of Xp Pro or Vista Business purchased under OEM or Volume licensed program.

If you do not fulfills this preset criteria for getting Computer software systems, operating System you must have to go for Get Genuinelicensing agreement comes under Open License Program.

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Software, Licensing Tips

Microsoft Dynamics CRM Software, Licensing Tips for Small and Medium Enterprises.

Small and medium enterprises can purchase Dynamics CRM software licenses through following software licensing programs offered by Microsoft,

Let’s have a look at the example.

A small and medium size customer requires CRM Software licenses for their company. They engaged to the related partner and present their requirement that they need have this and this type of requirements for their company, please help to get right option to purchase CRM Software Licenses.

Partner will ask some questions to the customer, how many CRM Software licenses are required by your company, is it in between 5 to 250 licenses, if customer responded “yes” then another question will be raised by the partner that; do you want to stay with the current software and spread their license payments over three year?

If the answer is “No”, than they should go for software licensing solutions available under Open License Program as it offers savings and flexibility to acquire software licenses as need and when required.

Else Partner will ask another question do you need the lowest up front cost and/or do you want to subscribe the software?

If the answer is no then they should choose to purchase their software licenses under Open Value Non Companywide Option because it includes software assurance benefits and flexibility to spread the payment over three years.

Suggestion: You can start with one Dynamics CRM Software Server license and at least 4 CRM CALs. This is how you achieve minimum software license requirement under both the available programs.

Enrolment For Education Software licensing Solution (EES) Program

(ESS) Enrolment for Education, Software Licensing Solution Program

Today, I will discuss, about Enrolment for Education Solution under Microsoft Volume licensing, this is one of the software licensing solution appropriate for Academic Sector, it provide easy and affordable way to acquire software licensing solution for their faculty, other staff and student at their schools, with the software  required for achieving their teaching and learning goals,

It is a Subscription volume licensing program design for specially academic customers, that makes it easier for schools and collages to get the software they need.

Enrolment for Education Solution offers a short coverage of product license for the whole school with the ability to easily add additional products as need and a verity of special benefits to help to get the most out of their investment.

It is a subscription program so you don't purchase the software licensing solution, you  subscribes to it. this means you get greater flexibility then you bought the software because a are automatically licensed to run the most current version of the product you ordered, budgeting is also easier to subscription because you don't have to pay up front, you make annual payments over the three year subscription term, to gather with short coverage.

All you need to do is to count all the employees on e time per year then then submit the license order required for the school or college that equals to number of employees if you add some employees they are covered too, what they will have to do is to add the number in their next anniversary order.

if you want to add any additional product you can add it in any quantity for their entire institution, a single department or a single individual user at any time during the subscription period.

Note that products are covered under software assurance which includes new product versions rights, home use rights and e-learning courses which helps every one to get most of the software investment, that's are not all the benefits, Enrolment for education solution also make it easier to do their jobs because can download the software plus you can also manage all their licenses and software  assurance benefits through volume licensing service centre and since the master agreement does not expired you does not have to worry about re-negotiating the standard terms and conditions.

With all these facts you get idea to easily provide easy way to provide access to the technology they need while saving time and money,

For me, if I own a academic institute which require software then definitely I will go for enrolment for education solution and is the right software licensing solution.