Most clients, if pressed, will say that the most valuable Software Assurance benefits they receive from Microsoft are Planning Services Vouchers and Training Vouchers. If you’re not an Enterprise Agreement customer, and these are unfamiliar terms to you, here is a quick rundown: 

I talk with the IT departments at different organizations about their Microsoft solutions – the ones they have deployed and the ones they plan on rolling out. Inevitably, the conversation turns to collaboration solutions and SharePoint, specifically. Typically, companies have a narrow vision of SharePoint and they think about it as an intranet, file sharing…

Years ago, Microsoft created a specialized Enterprise Enrollment called Enrollment for Application Platform or EAP.  It was designed to help provide better pricing on Microsoft’s platform products (SQL, Visual Studio, SharePoint and BizTalk).  Because traditional Enterprise Agreements are limited to organizations with 250 or more users, many customers with large platform investments were not able…

Yes, the hourglass is getting emptier by the day.  While we deal with thousands of customers across public and private sectors, representing every organizational category you can imagine, one theme remains constant:  No one seems concerned about the impact of July 14, 2015 on their organization.

Oftentimes, clients will ask us how to manage software. That’s a loaded question, to be sure, but also a very important one. It’s an endeavor that requires a lot of thought, planning and work. Each organization needs to decide what works best for them, though there are some best practices to consider.

The smell of potato chips and a few too many energy drinks wafts through the air. Dawn is still hours away. The dark room surrounds Joe as he smiles in the dim light of the laptop screen. His persistence has finally paid off. He has been dissecting this component for a while. Server 2003 is…