Microsoft Software Licensing

As licensing consultants for Microsoft, we provide a sales channel for Microsoft’s Volume Licensing Programs and Full Package Products, and will work to ensure customers’ software needs are met.

Microsoft is motivated and inspired every day by how customers use software to find creative solutions to business problems, develop breakthrough ideas, and stay connected to what's most important to them. Microsoft runs their business in much the same way, and believes that their five business segments offer the greatest potential to serve customers. They are:

Client: Includes the Windows product family and is responsible for our relationships with personal computer manufacturers.
Server and Tools: Software server products, services and solutions, including: Windows Server operating system, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft Enterprise Services, Visual Studio, System Center products, Forefront security products and Biz Talk Server.
Online Services Business: Consists of an online advertising platform with offerings for publishers and advertisers, personal communications services such as e-mail and instant messaging, and online information offerings such as Live Search and the MSN portals and channels.
Microsoft Business Division: Includes the Microsoft Office suites, desktop programs, servers, and services and solutions; Microsoft Dynamics; and Unified Communications business solutions.
Entertainment and Devices Division: Consists of the Xbox video game system, including consoles and accessories, Xbox Live operations, Zune digital music and entertainment device; Mediaroom, mobile and embedded device platforms, Surface computing platform, and Windows Automotive.

Our Software Licensing & Management Solutions offers Microsoft’s Volume License Programs, available to commercial, education, government and not-for-profit customers.

Microsoft Volume License Programs & Agreements

Enterprise License Program: Microsoft Enterprise Agreement makes it easy to acquire Microsoft software licenses for customers who are interested in standardizing on some or the entire Microsoft enterprise platform of products. With Enterprise Agreement, pricing levels for the enterprise products are determined by the total number of qualified desktops. The initial order is made at the time of signing an enterprise enrolment. The initial order defines the enterprise product selection, additional product selection, and the designated language group.

Enterprise Platform Enterprise Agreement offers a flexible way to standardize an organization on the following enterprise platform of Microsoft products:

• Microsoft Office Professional
• Microsoft Windows Professional Desktop Upgrade
• Microsoft Core Client Access License (CAL)

Select License Program: Microsoft Select offers organizations a multi-leveled, volume price solution on product licenses while enabling for easy tracking of software license purchases through online order confirmations and annual purchase summaries. Select License is based on a forecast of the total volume of software licenses the customer expects to acquire over a three year period. Forecasts are made by product pools; applications, systems, and servers. The initial order is made at the time of signing a select enrolment.

Software Assurance: Microsoft's Software Assurance gives your customer automatic access to new technology and provides productivity benefits, support, tools, and training to help deploy and use software efficiently. Through the following:

• Productivity
• Support
• Training

Campus Agreement: Microsoft Campus Agreement is an annual, subscription licensing program specifically created to address the unique needs of higher educational institutions. Along with the flexibility of a streamlined agreement and subscription process, the customer will appreciate the simplicity of counting people instead of computers, making it easy to license their entire institution or just a single department.

School Agreement: Microsoft School Agreement is an annual, subscription licensing program specifically created to address the unique needs of primary and secondary schools and districts. With the simplicity of counting computers just once per year, School Agreement makes it easy for the customer to license all of their computers, whether in a single school or throughout the entire district.

Open Business:
This program saves customers on estimated retail prices by placing an initial order for five or more licenses. Customers can combine Microsoft products to qualify for the five license minimum. The Customer can place additional orders as small as one license through the two-year term of their Open License authorization number.

Open Volume:
This program offers greater savings over estimated retail prices with a minimum initial order of 500 points within a product pool of applications, systems, or servers. Each license carries a unit value of at least one point. The customer can place additional orders as small as one license throughout the two-year term of their Open License authorization number.

Open Academic:
This program allows accredited academic organizations to purchase multiple software licenses at reduced prices, by placing an initial order for 5 or more licenses. Customers can combine Microsoft products to qualify for the five license minimum. The Customer can place additional orders as small as one license through the two-year term of their Open License authorization number

Open License Value:
Open Value Program is a 3 yr contractual software license purchase plan, specifically for business customers. Designed for organizations with as few as five and up to 250 desktops, Open Value offers the advantages of *Software Assurance (SA) to stay current, and the ability to spread payments annually, to help cash flow.