Software piracy is big business and bad for IT as a whole, so someone has to police it. But when the piracy police overstep their bounds, companies suffer needlessly. Here, Redmond explores the most ...

Across the board, the largest complaints about software vendors and their business practices have come from increasingly aggressive software auditing practices. Once thought to be a small possibility, ...

LicenseFortress®, the leading independent software licensing advisory firm, is warning organizations about the accelerating rise of what it calls Ambush Audits™—vendor-initiated information-gathering ...

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 ...

The Business Software Alliance's (BSA ) claim that 90% of all audit letters sent in 2012 were the result of tips from whistle-blowers should be a wake-up call to CIOs. IT chiefs may well ponder how to ...

For a variety of factors, many companies inadvertently use unlicensed or unauthorised software. This can be a result of negligent software procurement practices, employees misusing company software ...

eSpeaks’ Corey Noles talks with Rob Israch, President of Tipalti, about what it means to lead with Global-First Finance and how companies can build scalable, compliant operations in an increasingly ...

Software audits are a feature of the IT commercial landscape. Now they're turning up in cloud environments. Brian Sommer has some advice for unwary buyers. Ask any CIO what is one of the least ...

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 ...