Microsoft's pricing adjustment is approaching in October 2018

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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 Enterprise E3 offers will be renamed:
  • E3 will now refer to the per user offer only; Windows 10 Enterprise E3 per Device becomes Windows 10 Enterprise
  • The price of Windows 10 Enterprise will be raised to match the price of Windows 10 Enterprise E3, Windows 10 Enterprise E5 per device will be discontinued.
¿How to minimize the adjustment impact?  

The first consequence of this new tariff scheme for organizations will undoubtedly be an increase in the cost of Microsoft's licensing invoice, it is convenient to take the decision to migrate part of the platform to the cloud and implement a software assets management SAM's program.

With SAM you can achieve significant savings in IT investment, from the adjustment of the software installed in the organization's platform to the real needs of the organization, among many other benefits.

The best strategy to minimize the economic impact of the increase in the cost of Microsoft licenses is the adoption of the best practices in the industry endorsed by ITIL, such as SAM Software Asset Management.

SAM as a Service from Licensing Assurance will help you manage your software assets without complications, achieving substantial savings in your IT investment, based only on what is best for your company, this is possible because we do not sell licenses.

If you wish at this time we offer our FREE SAM diagnosis for Microsoft, for that, fill your data in the following form Here.

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