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2010 dates for FAST Compliance Programme courses and software licensing courses are now available.
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The surgeries are a great new benefit to customers on the FAST Compliance Programme. They are designed to create networking opportunities with your peers in the industry...
Experts discuss the complexity of software licensing and how new technologies such as SaaS and virtualisation are putting compliance under pressure.
The 2009 FAST survey has shown that the number of organisations being audited by software vendors has increased by almost 50% in the past 12 months.
Dave Thompson, FAST Consultant, gives advice on the key elements of an effective SAM programme - roles and responsibilities, tools, policies and procedures and processes
Software vendor audits are up, business finances are down. But organisations fearing a catalogue of audit notifications can still help themselves, as the FAST team explains.
In this article, FAST' Phil Heap takes a detailed look at how organisations can take steps to regain control of their software assets and reduce any risk from software audits through having greater certainty of their licence compliance.
Here, David Thompson, FAST Business Consultant, provides an explanation of the differences between a Microsoft review and the Microsoft SAM Programme.
Roundtable experts discuss SAM solutions as vendor audits rise, getting executive buy-in and a role for SaaS mooted as possible solutions.
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