Firms crave simpler licensing

Dave Bailey
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The management of arcane software licensing arrangements continues to be major headache for many IT leaders, prompting some to outsource the problem to third parties

many small firms are outsourcing their service provider licensing agreements to service provider licence agreements resellers Licensing complexity has become one of the biggest bugbears of IT man...

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