Software Audits have been a challenge for organizations for years – whether from software publishers themselves, through their auditing partners such as Deloitte and KPMG, or the number of industry watchdogs around the world such as the Business Software Alliance (BSA), the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) or the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA).

Most software publishers now have some form of software audit practice and some are aggressively pushing license compliance audits as a revenue source. Gartner states that ‘the likelihood of an organization experiencing two or more audits annually is as high as 68%’ so it’s best to be well prepared.

Recently, we spoke to Andréa Perrot who is an experienced Software Asset Management practitioner who works for our partner Trustmarque about how to defend a software audit, and how to come away with a positive outcome.

SOURCE: snowsoftware.com