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The software giant Microsoft has announced a series of changes on the prices schemes that will take effect on October 1, 2018 In the announcement, they report that the motivation for this adjustment is to improve the customer experience and bring an unique offers that contribute to the digital transformation of the organizations.  The announced changes will affect a number of local and cloud products, highlighting the price increases in the Office 2019 and Windows 10 Enterprise . The price increase to take effect soon includes:        A single and consistent initial price in all programs aligned to webdirect for online services (OLS). Removal of the volume discount program and delivery of a price sheet for the recently designed customer that best describes how a customer's new price was formed. Along with programmatic price changes, the commercial prices of Office 2019 will increase by 10% compared to current prices. Windows 10 Ente...

The software assets management is an activity that every day becomes more complex, there are more and more products and manufacturers, as well as types of license agreements with many small letters in their conditions. This reality, added to the fact that every day companies are larger and the cost of licenses is a fundamental part of the IT budget, makes it essential to take measures backed by the best industry practices such as adopting SAM. Some organizations have tried to do a manual control of their software assets, helping in some discovery tool, then they get that there is no tool that can discover all types of software and versions in use. For that reason when being with diverse manufacturers and diverse types of licenses they are surpassed by the complexity of the matter It requires experience, methodology and tools to ensure a successful SAM implementation. Another challenge is to build an administrative record that condenses and endorses all licenses in...