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Microsoft is shaking up its pricing strategy for 2025, introducing significant changes to monthly billing and product licensing that will impact businesses and organizations. Here’s a comprehensive breakdown of the upcoming modifications. Monthly Billing Flexibility with a Catch Starting December 1st, Microsoft will offer a new monthly billing option for annual subscriptions, but it comes…
Women We Admire is pleased to announce The Top 50 Women Leaders of Missouri for 2023. Jeanette Hernandez Prenger serves as the Founder, CEO, and President of ECCO Select. She leads one of the top Hispanic businesses in the country, with over 500 employees serving clients across North America. ECCO Select is a talent acquisition and…
VVL Select is thrilled to announce its award for the System Development and Modernization of the USDA Animal and Plant Health and Inspection Service (APHIS) and Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) contract. This 5-year award will allow VVL Select to provide Tier 2 support, application enhancement, troubleshooting, and modernization efforts for Veterinary Service applications. We are…
Wits Solutions is proud to announce a 5-year award to provide comprehensive tiered service desk support, customer experience management, business and operations analysis, program management, and service management modernization for the USDA Digital Infrastructure Service Center (DISC). With the vision to “Be the preferred Digital Infrastructure platform provider, driving the transition to digital and customer-centric…
Partnering with USDA, ECCO Select and Datadog offer a powerful observability solution that enhances operational efficiency, security, and insight, and is central to DISC’s Enterprise Application Monitoring service offering.
Oracle licenses cost money. It can be a lot of money, too. So much so that companies are sometimes reluctant to invest in expert consulting services to help maintain licensing compliance simply because they have already spent enough on the software itself. But sometimes a company needs to spend money in order to save it….
Oracle’s new and well-published fee structure for Java is now in full force. It represents the fourth fee structure change in four years. Under the new schedule, companies using Java could pay 2-5 times more to continue using it. This begs a particularly important question: is the new fee structure pricing companies out? A January…
An IBM audit is inevitable for any organization that uses the company’s software. IBM audits customers every three to four years like clockwork. Here’s the thing: being found out of compliance could get very expensive rather quickly. It pays to be proactive about internal IBM audit defense and license management to guarantee your company is…
Managing software licenses in a business setting can be a bit challenging. Some software packages are more complicated than others. Take Salesforce. It has some of the most complex licensing in business. For that reason alone, our Salesforce license management services could prove invaluable to your company. Salesforce is near the top in terms of…
On January 23, 2023, Oracle quietly announced their new licensing metric for Java, the Employee for Java SE Universal Subscription metric. Since then, Oracle has done two (2) things; possibly three (3): Oracle no longer offers the older metrics of Processor (servers, with the core-factor applied) and Named User Plus (workstations). Even if you had…
