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*As reported in the 2013-2014 Key Trends in Software Pricing & Licensing Report: Software License Audits: Costs & Risks to Enterprises OF ENTERPRISES are out of compliance with their software license agreements.* 85 % OF ENTERPRISES either don’t manage their software licenses at all in virtual environments, or t hey do so manually. 39 % THE DANGER BENEATH THE SURFACE Virtualization’s hidden software license compliance risks could sink IT budgets and chill relat ionships between applicat ion producers and t heir customers. OF APPLICATION PRODUCERS 42 % will be changing their compliance/ licensing policy for virtualization. OF APPLICATION PRODUCERS 48 % say their reason for doing so is to generate more revenue. OF APPLICATION PRODUCERS 33 % have changed their pricing and licensing policies in t he past 18-24 mont hs. OF ENTERPRISES say that more than 40 percent of their servers have been virtualized. 66 % OF APPLICATION PRODUCERS 59 % say it is not difficult for customers to determine which products they are entitled to use. LEVEL 1 LEVEL 2 LEVEL 3 LEVEL 4 LEVEL 5 LEVEL 6 LEVEL 7 www.flexerasoftware.com

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*As reported in the 2013-2014 Key Trends in Software Pricing & Licensing Report: Software License Audits: Costs & Risks to Enterprises

OF ENTERPRISES are out of compliance with their software license agreements.*

85%

OF ENTERPRISES either don’t manage their software licenses at all in virtual environments, or they do so manually.

39%

THE DANGER BENEATH THE SURFACE Virtualizat ion’s hidden software license compliance risks could sink IT budgets

and chill relat ionships between applicat ion producers and t heir customers.

OF APPLICATIONPRODUCERS 42%

will be changing their compliance/licensing policy for virtualizat ion.

OF APPLICATIONPRODUCERS 48%

say their reason for doing so is to generate more revenue.

OF APPLICATIONPRODUCERS 33%

have changed their pricing and licensing policies in the past 18-24 months.

OF ENTERPRISES say that more than 40 percent of their servers have been virtualized.

66%

OF APPLICATIONPRODUCERS 59%

say it is not difficult for customers to determine which products they are ent it led to use.

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