Software Assurance & Benefits
Microsoft's Software Assurance gives you automatic access to new technology and provides productivity benefits, support, tools, and training to help deploy and use software efficiently.
Why Software Assurance?
- A comprehensive maintenance offering that helps maximize the value of our software investment
- Software Assurance offers a broad range of benefits to help:
- Deploy, manage, use, and support software
- Boost business productivity, align IT with business strategies, and optimize technology infrastructure
- Software Assurance together with Microsoft products offers a complete solution to help us get the most value out of our software investment
Software Assurance Benefits:
The mix and match of the below mentioned benefits are rendered whenever customer opts for a license with Software Assurance. Leveraging on these benefits would depend on which Volume licensing program (Open, Select, Enterprise Agreement) the customer is procuring.
- New Version Rights helps lower the costs associated with software acquisition while simplifying procurement and forecasting. This helps protect our organization’s investment while providing upgrades to the latest versions of Microsoft software. The New Version Rights benefit gives you access to new software versions that are released during the term of your Software Assurance coverage—at no additional charge to your organization.
- Spread Payments allows predictable payments and easier budget management.
- Windows Vista® Enterprise, the premier operating system for mid-size to large-organizations, helps lower IT costs, improve IT efficiency, and increase data protection. Windows Vista Enterprise is the premium edition of Windows Vista for businesses and is available exclusively to Microsoft Software Assurance customers. It helps global organizations and businesses that have complex IT infrastructures lower IT costs, reduce risk, and stay connected.
- Microsoft Desktop Optimization Pack helps increase desktop manageability, reduce total cost of ownership, and enable delivery of applications as services. Available as an add-on subscription license.
- Training Vouchers help boost technical skills and lower training costs with technical classroom training.
- E-Learning helps improve employee productivity through interactive self-paced training. The Microsoft Software Assurance E-Learning benefit provides access to self-paced, interactive training that is developed by Microsoft experts. The thorough online learning experience incorporates features that are designed to help improve your organization's product proficiency, boost productivity, and lower organizational training costs.
- Home Use Program supports productivity and decreases training costs by offering Microsoft Office software to employees for use at home. By giving employees the flexibility to use the same software at work and at home, the Home Use Program helps increase employee productivity, reduce IT burden, and promote employee job satisfaction.
- Employee Purchase Program contributes to employee satisfaction by providing discounts on Microsoft products. The Microsoft Employee Purchase Program benefit gives your employees discounts on some of the most popular Microsoft productivity and entertainment products, including Xbox software and games and the Zune digital media player and software. Your employees can order products directly for less than the estimated retail price through a secure, Microsoft-hosted e-commerce site.
- Enterprise Source Licensing Program provides access to Microsoft Windows source code for internal development.
- 24x7 Problem Resolution Support helps reduce downtime and support costs by providing incident support around the clock.
- Cold Backups For Disaster Recovery helps maintain IT operating efficiency and protect mission-critical solutions. With this benefit, you have access to an online backup server (a "cold" server, or one that is turned off until an emergency situation) that can be moved into production so that users can continue to access critical data and applications.
- TechNet Subscription through Software Assurance provides access to experts, technical tools, and resources.
- Extended Hotfix Support helps reduce support costs and makes it easier to get the support needed as software transitions from Mainstream Support to Extended Support.
- Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs helps reduce the costs of owning legacy PCs, while improving their management and security.
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