The most "aggressive" software auditor of all is Microsoft, according to a recently published industry study. Companies that license software face annual "true-ups," where they must account for the ...

SINGAPORE--Some companies in Asia are making sure they comply with licensing laws in their respective countries, by turning to external professionals to audit their software assets, industry observers ...

Karen Schwartz is a freelance technology writer based in the Washington D.C. area. A software audit is a daunting situation for any organization – one that creates demands and stress on IT staff and ...

Microsoft is king of the software audit with Oracle a distant second, according to a report by Flexera. Flexera's 2022 State of ITAM Report found that 46% of respondents were audited by Microsoft for ...

A recent poll conducted by the ITAM Review found that IT departments continue to experience pressure from software companies to audit licence usage. Preliminary results show that about one-fifth of IT ...

The audit community’s adoption of electronic working papers to encourage collaboration has had an unintended consequence of creating dark data. That is, data trapped within these new documents, making ...

Coming out of the pandemic, and faced with an uncertain economy, many software vendors have been looking for sources of additional revenue, and they have found it—through customer software audits.

It was hard enough to manage IT infrastructures when everything was on-premise only. But today, with combined on-premise and multi-cloud deployments, say Michael Corey, co-founder, LicenseFortress, ...

Shujinko, which makes automated enterprise compliance solutions, has made its SOC 2 audit preparation and readiness portion of its AuditX software available for free. Processing Content The software ...