Why Software Licensing and Compliance Management Matters

In 2011 IDC pegged the global packaged software market at $325 billion. At the same time, the 2011 BSA Global Software Piracy Study found well over half of the world’s personal computer users—57 percent—admitted they pirate software. In fact, the commercial value of pirated software climbed from $58.8 billion in 2010 to $63.4 billion in 2011. Clearly application producers have a lot at stake when it comes to software license compliance management.

• Pros and cons of traditional software licensing and compliance management approaches
• Impact technology—SaaS, Cloud, Virtualization—has on software licensing and compliance management
• Increasing complexity of software licensing models—from strict enforcement to usage-based software licensing