For a variety of factors, many companies inadvertently use unlicensed or unauthorised software. This can be a result of negligent software procurement practices, employees misusing company software ...

Across the board, the largest complaints about software vendors and their business practices have come from increasingly aggressive software auditing practices. Once thought to be a small possibility, ...

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 Business Software Alliance's (BSA ) claim that 90% of all audit letters sent in 2012 were the result of tips from whistle-blowers should be a wake-up call to CIOs. IT chiefs may well ponder how to ...

LAFAYETTE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--nSyte Software, a Colorado start-up specializing in software testing tools, today announced the launch of its new product called nQuire which will help software ...

Software audits have become so prevalent that companies offering “audit management software” have proliferated in recent years. In their Technology Law column, Richard Raysman and Peter Brown discuss ...

Software audits are a feature of the IT commercial landscape. Now they're turning up in cloud environments. Brian Sommer has some advice for unwary buyers. Ask any CIO what is one of the least ...

'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 ...

Throughout this decade, software companies have employed a number of tactics to enhance profitability. However, the most consistent and pervasive method has been to extract supplementary funds from ...

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 ...