Volume Licensing

Volume Licensing offers companies of all sizes an easy and cost-effective way to manage and pay for multiple software licences, and there are benefits for partners too – decreased licence costs can mean an increase for your service revenue. As customers spend less on software licences, they have a greater share of their IT budgets to spend on larger deployments and additional services.

Open Licence
Open Licence is a licensing program for small to mid-sized organisations with between 5-250 desktop PCs. It provides a simple, flexible, and cost-effective way for customers to acquire their Microsoft software under a single agreement rather than on an individual basis. This enables them to easily manage their licences through online tracking – and perhaps most importantly, keeps them legal as the risk of lapsed or missed licences is dramatically reduced.

Open Licence sales opportunities lie with:

Customers with multiple Open Agreements
Customers with older software licenses (Office, XP, 2000)
Customers with multiple Select Agreements
Customers with expiring Software Assurance
Customers that have recently purchased OEM
Customers that have only purchased via retail
Customers that are looking to manage their software licensing costs.

Benefits of Open Licence:

A minimum purchase of just five licences
Easy to manage and predict costs
The ability to track and manage licence by using online tools
Access to Microsoft Software Assurance, an enhanced maintenance program that helps get the most out of the software investment.

Open Value

This agreement is ideal for organisations with up to 750 PCs allowing for natural growth without the organisation needing to change agreement or partner. The three year agreement gives organisations the right to use the version of Microsoft Software they buy forever and benefit from all products, within the agreement, being covered by Software Assurance.

Benefits of Open Value:

Simplified licence tracking – For a predictable annual fee, customers can standardise desktop software by simply counting the number of computers
More controlled upgrade cycle – The upgrade cycle can now be planned with greater certainty as customers know that management has already approved and budgeted for new versions of licenced software
Improved cost management – Up front licensing costs can be minimised by allowing customer to spread payments for licences over three years
Single platform – customers can customise their desktop by choosing components from an operating system, Office and CAL product pool.

Open Value Subscription

This three year agreement enables companies with up to 750 PCs to rent Microsoft Software, creating one of the most flexible licensing options available. With lower upfront and initial annual costs in comparison to buying licences outright, payments are spread to help improve cash flow.

Customers get the benefits of Open Value with lower up-front costs and the ability to increase licences or decrease PC count on an annual basis to accommodate changes in their business.

Benefits of an Open Value Subscription licence:

Pay only for what’s needed with the flexibility to increase or decrease the amount of software subscriptions on an annual basis
By standardising software customers pay a single price per desktop and spread payments over three years
Software Assurance allows customers to maximise their software.