Don't leave software licensing to chance

If you don't keep close watch on your software licenses, it's easy to lose sight of what you have. As a result, companies routinely lose tens of thousands of dollars yearly on maintenance and support costs for licenses they don't even need anymore. Designate someone within your organization to keep track of software licensing issues and software use, in order to track annual costs. Other tips include avoiding automatic annual contract rollovers, conducting regular reviews of support usage, and making sure that termination clauses for maintenance include repayment of unused parts of the maintenance.

Read more about effective software licensing:
- check out the article at ComputerWeekly.com