SANTA CLARA, Calif.--The business of selling software is due for an extreme makeover, industry executives said at the SoftSummit conference here. The trouble, they said, is the industry's rigid focus ...

It can be a juggling act to curb unnecessary costs on additional software licences while ensuring there are enough licences for all users. IT departments will often procure more seats than they ...

Contrary to what you may believe, purchasing software rarely means you own it. In reality, the software most often still belongs to the company or developer and what you purchase is a software license ...

Deepak Pargaonkar, Salesforce India, gives a gaze on AI-readiness and enterprise adoption path on A,I as well as the corresponding effects on SaaS and software licensing in 2026 ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. In their work discussing the history of software licensing, intellectual property scholars Michael L. Rustad and Maria Vittoria Onufrio ...

The issue of compliance is forever on the minds of IT executives, and even more so in the last 10 years, due to increased audit activities by software vendors, complex licensing rules and the ...

Autonomous AI systems are acting independently, raising legal and economic concerns. Laws and licenses often don’t address AI ...

Open source software (OSS) has become an indispensable element of modern technological ecosystems, enabling global collaboration, rapid innovation and widespread access to cutting‐edge tools. Central ...

The House passed a bipartisan proposal with new transparency requirements for government software spending on Wednesday. Dubbed the Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets — ...

Many organizations can cut spending on software by as much as 30 per cent with some basic software license optimization best practices. According to analyst Gartner, global software spending is set to ...

Federal agencies are missing out on cost savings and making too many duplicative purchases when it comes to IT and cyber-related investments, according to a new Government Accountability Office report ...

Otherwise new hardware trends will push costs up over 50 per cent… Emerging trends in IT hardware could force software licensing costs up by more than 50 per cent over the next year unless businesses ...