The Enterprise Agreement offers simplicity in the face of today's complex business software environment. Designed for businesses who implement enterprise wide standards to enhance business productivity, the Enterprise Agreement provides a framework for making software license acquisitions and management easier for businesses with as few as 250 desktops.
Benefits
Get more through Software Assurance. Get more value, more manageability and more assistance from your technology investments through Software Assurance. Software Assurance can help you get the most value from up-ti-date technology with several key benefits that can save time, money and help deploy software more efficiently.
Build a flexible infrastructure. An Enterprise Agreement helps an organisation more easily build and maintain its infrastructure so it can respond rapidly to changing business needs.
Drive Standardisation throughout the enterprise. An Enterprise Agreement can help a company more successfully use standards to reduce the cost of computing.
Ensure Compliance. The Enterprise Agreement significantly reduces the administration required to show compliance on enrolled enterprise products, thereby mitigating the associated legal risk.
Simplify license administration and budgeting. An Enterprise Agreement helps streamline the admninistration and budgeting processes while improving the accuracy of business planning.
Overview
Businesses with a minimum of 250 desktops that wish to license 100% of their qualified desktops for a three-year period can initiate an Enterprise Agreement. The Enterprise Agreement offers:
Software Assurance provides a powerful combination of benefits that include new version rights, the Home Use Program and many other advantages includinbg support, tools and training, your company can gain the flexibility it needs to keep your business edge.
Selection of enterprise products, including Office Professional, Windows Operating System upgrades and Core CAL.
Additional Products offer a broad selection of Microsoft business software products. Examples of products offered as additional products includes Visio, Project, Windows servers and Exchange servers.
A fixed, annual price per desktop for enterprise products based on the initial number of desktops enrolled.
Annual True Up allows businesses to run software on desktops as they are acquired, then pay a predetermined price for the software licenses annually for the remaining term of the enrolment.
Equal, annual payments for a three-year enrolment term, with a renewal option of one year or three years.
Program Features
The Enterprise Agreement offers businesses access to the most recent releases of the Enterprise Desktop Professional Platform Products. The Enterprise Desktop Professional Platform Products are:
Windows Desktop Operating System Upgrade; this can be either the upgrade to Windows 2000 Professional or Windows XP Professional
Microsoft Office Professional; The current version includes Microsoft Word, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft PowerPoint, Outlook messaging and collaboration client and Microsoft Access.
Microsoft Core Client Access License; The current version consists of Client Access Licenses (CALs) for Windows Server, SharePoint Portal Server, Microsoft Exchange Server and Systems Management Server. The Core CAL is a new way to conveniently cover and manage CALs for certain basic server components across all licensed desktops within the firewall. The Core CAL reduces the complexitiy for the IT professional in managing client access licenses for server products.
Additional Products
A broad selection of software titles are available as additional products. They provide the same License & Software Assurance coverage as enterprise products, but do not require an enterprise wide commitment. For products licensed at signing, apyments can be spread over three years in the same way that enterprise product payments are annualised. Spreading the cost of software licenses over three years can enable businesses to refocus critical IT budget and provide a predictable framework for budgeting purposes.
Examples of products available as additional products include Visio, Project, Windows Servers and Exchange Server.
Software Assurance in Enterprise Agreement
Software Assurance is a feature within the Enterprise Agreement to help you get the most value from up-to-date technology with several key benefits that can save time and money. With Software Assurance's powerful combination of productivity benefits, support, tools and training, you company can gain the flexibility it needs to keep your business edge.
Having Software Assurance in place across an entire enterprise can reduce the amount of valuable time spent tracking multiple versions of software. Additionally, it may promote more expedient execution of business solutions due to the reduced need for ongoing management approval to finance new software licenses.