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Enterprise SaaS: Now a $100 Billion a Year Industry

By Dick Weisinger

Enterprise SaaS has broken the $100 billion per year level and growing at 30 percent annually, based on analysis from Synergy Research Group. Microsoft leads the Enterprise SaaS segment and has grown, on average, 34 percent. John Dinsdale, a Chief…

Cloud Computing: Microsoft Increases Licensing Costs for non-Azure Cloud Vendors

By Dick Weisinger

Microsoft has recently announced new licensing changes that target competing cloud vendors that run Microsoft software in the cloud. Starting October 1st, 2019, the changes will go into effect, making the use of Microsoft software significantly more expensive to run…

Patents: Balancing IP Holder Rights versus new Technology ‘Essential Patents’

By Dick Weisinger

FRAND (fair, reasonable and non-discriminatory). It is a licensing commitment from the holder of a patent that is essential in order for a standard to become commonly used. It’s an agreement where the technology patent holder allows the patent to…

Software Licensing: Perpetual and Subscription both Common

By Dick Weisinger

Subscription versus perpetual licensing. While perpetual licenses are still out there, subscription pricing models, and utility pay-per-use models have become increasingly common, especially for SaaS applications. Flexera released today a comprehensive report on Software Monetization and Pricing. The report finds…

Robotic Process Automation (RPA): BOTs Speed up and Improve Quality of Repetitive Tasks

By Dick Weisinger

Robots are in the office and taking on tasks that have traditionally been repetitive, mundane and tedious. In particular, this includes tasks like data entry and manually moving data between applications. Automation of these mundane tasks is called Robotic Process…