The fact that the Big Four audit firms are being used both for statutory and software licence audits should raise alarm bells in IT departments. As Computer Weekly has previously reported, the ...

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 ...

While many software vendors run software license audits on customers, there are some key differences customers should be mindful of when it comes to IBM, according to a new report from advisory firm ...

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, ...

LOS ANGELES, January 22, 2025--(BUSINESS WIRE)--A recent study conducted by Unisphere Research, and sponsored by LicenseFortress, reveals that software audits are becoming increasingly frequent and ...

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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...