At Structured IT, we know what it means to have peace of mind when it comes to having the right software. Knowing that you have the latest and greatest software implemented within your IT infrastructure, ensuring everything works well, and more importantly, works right is something we strive for everyday. This is why we offer a range of Microsoft Licensing services, to ensure your company is at its best when it comes to the software you use.

We can help you make the right decisions in terms of licensing based on your company’s current and projected overall needs. Our main goal is to ensure that your company has access to license agreements that are affordable, give you value-added benefits, which help reduce the overall cost of software license acquisition, and most importantly, be easy to deploy throughout the company.

Some of our previous clients have benefited from licensing programs that provide various payment flexibility, access to the newest software versions, or the many benefits of Software Assurance.

The following are the three main types of licenses that a small/medium sized business should be concerned with:

• Open BusinessOpen Business
  
  The Open Business licensing agreement allows your company to save more on estimate retail prices by placing an initial order for 5 or more systems or application licenses, or one server license. This allows your company to combine any set of Microsoft system or application software to qualify for the five-license minimum
  • Minimum 5 software licenses
  • Up front purchase
  • Software Assurance is optional
  • Non-renewable term
• Open ValueOpen Value
  
  The Open Value licensing agreement allows your company to spread the payments of software license acquisition annually, and enjoy a host of other software assurance benefits that are designed to offer you more value, more manageability, and more assistance.
  • Minimum 5 software licenses
  • Spread payments over 3 year term
  • Software Assurance mandatory
  • Optional Company-WideCompany-Wide
    
    Company-Wide licensing provides an additional savings of up to 15% per desktop/laptop license suite. licensing for even more savings
• Open VolumeOpen Volume
  
  The Open Volume licensing agreement allows your company to save even more money if it is able to make a larger initial up-front order of one or more types of software in terms of applications, systems, and servers.
  • Points system utilized for pricing plans
  • Recommended for large volumes of software
  • Software Assurance is optional

As mentioned above, Software AssuranceSoftware Assurance

At Structured IT, we have seen the many benefits that Software Assurance has had on our clients, as it has increased employee productivity, it has accelerated organizational growth and performance, and it will allow your company to quickly realize and see a return on the software investment that has been made. is an additional option that can be purchased with Microsoft Licenses. It provides automatic access to new technology and to productivity benefits, support, tools, and training.  These benefits allow your company to deploy and use Microsoft software more productively and more efficiently.

Some benefits of Software Assurance are outlined below:

• Upgrade rights to newer versions of software as they become available
• Windows Vista Enterprise Edition will only be available to Software Assurance customers
• Training: Free IT training from Microsoft and access to E-Learning, a series of interactive online training tools for users.
• Home use: Employees of a company with Software Assurance can use an additional copy of Microsoft software at home on their own computers
• Employee Purchase Program: Employees also get discounts on retail purchases of Microsoft products
• 24x7 telephone and web support
• Additional error reporting tools to let administrators collect information on application failures
• Free licenses for additional servers provisioned as "Cold backups" of live servers

Contact us today to see how one of our Microsoft Licensing professionals can help lower costs, and increase productivity in your environment.