The BSA did one of their massive piracy announcements last month…
Last week, the BSA published a list of 19 companies whose combined settlements were $2M, along with the requirement to remove the unlicensed software from publishers Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec Corp, McAfee and others.
This is a good quote from Eracent…
The alternative to reaching a settlement with your publishers is to build the processes necessary to correctly manage software licenses. “Rather than wasting resources and important budget dollars repairing the damage from an audit, organizations should invest in real software asset management business practices, structured to fit the organization and providing the data needed to make the organization compliant and financially efficient., “ states Jenny Schuchert, Vice President of Marketing for Eracent, Inc. “Software asset management is certainly easier for organizations that are highly standardized or centralized, but that doesn’t mean that decentralized organizations cannot benefit from effective software asset management practices.. The greater the complexity, the more the organizations must rely on their tools.”
