(Click image for larger view and slideshow.) You've received a software licensing audit letter. What do you do now? You can disregard it, which is unwise, or react to it in a number of ways. There are ...

The five vendors mostly likely to audit corporate software licenses are Microsoft, Adobe, Autodesk, Oracle, and SAP, in that order. Among organizations with 10,000 or more employees, IBM took the ...

Software piracy is big business and bad for IT as a whole, so someone has to police it. But when the piracy police overstep their bounds, companies suffer needlessly. Here, Redmond explores the most ...

The most "aggressive" software auditor of all is Microsoft, according to a recently published industry study. Companies that license software face annual "true-ups," where they must account for the ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. A software audit is a daunting situation for any organization – one that creates demands and stress on IT staff and ...

'Truing up' licenses amounts to billions of dollars in revenue for the major software makers. Here's where the money goes -- and how it's extracted When the software audit request came from Adobe two ...

It was hard enough to manage IT infrastructures when everything was on-premise only. But today, with combined on-premise and multi-cloud deployments, say Michael Corey, co-founder, LicenseFortress, ...

“There are two types of companies: those that have been audited [for software violations] and those that will be.” So says Robert J. Scott, the managing partner of legal and technology services firm ...

Imagine that your doctor recommends a new medication. Later, you discover that they have an arrangement with the manufacturer that requires them to prescribe their drugs, even if there are better and ...

Auditing is, at best, a cumbersome and time-consuming engagement. Whether it’s an audit of internal controls, or one to produce audited financial statements, there’s always a fairly complex and time- ...