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ARTICLE · 04 MAY 2012

Software Audits Increase In 2012: What To Do

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The number of software audits requested by software publishers and their trade groups including the Business Software Association (BSA) and Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) will increase dramatically in 2012.

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Rob Scott
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The number of software audits requested by software publishers and their trade groups including the Business Software Association (BSA) and Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) will increase dramatically in 2012.

We are witnessing an increase in the number of prospective client calls and a surge in our software defense case load during the fourth quarter of 2011. Based on a number of factors including worldwide economic conditions affecting software publishers' revenues, businesses can expect to receive more software audit requests in 2012 than ever before.

According to The ITAM Review, July 4, 2011, Gartner, a leading technology research company , reported in March 2011 that 61% of their survey recipients were audited by at least one software vendor in 2010. This number was the highest percentage of any comparable Gartner survey. Respondents identified the following companies with the most audits: IBM (41%), Adobe (40%), Microsoft (35%), and

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