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Software Assurance at A Glance PDF
Software Assurance at A Glance PDF
Assurance
Software Assurance is available exclusively To help ready staff and build IT skills, for no
through Microsoft Volume Licensing—the additional cost your technical staff gets
most cost-effective, flexible, and manageable classroom training.*
way to acquire Microsoft software and cloud
services. *Deployment planning and training vouchers will be fully
retired in February 2022.
Software Assurance provides a broad Budget your way
range of benefits to help improve The Software Assurance Spread Payments benefit
business agility works with your budget and lowers your
initial licensing costs. Instead of one up-front
Save time, stay up and running payment, you spread the costs of your License
and Software Assurance purchase across three
Have a problem or a concern? 24x7 support, by equal, annual sums, helping you calculate your
web or phone, gets you answers when you need technology budget up to three years in advance.
them. This Software Assurance benefit, along
with tools and technologies to standardize and
speed application deployments, can be a huge Review Software Assurance benefits
time-saver. You get greater control of the tools
that your employees are using, less downtime, The comprehensive set of Software Assurance
and fast support. Your employees get the benefits combine to offer a powerful advantage
technology they need, when they need it. as you plan, deploy, and use Microsoft products.
You also get help with developing and applying The Software Assurance Benefits Chart (PDF, 2.2
organization-wide policies to help keep software MB), which includes an overview of each
configurations up to date, secure, and configured benefit and describes which benefits apply to
to best support your IT environment. This, and each type of Volume Licensing agreement. Use
additional disaster recovery and fail-over the chart to see the many ways Software
benefits, helps maintain a stable, secure, and Assurance can offer invaluable advantages to
available infrastructure. your organization.
If you still have questions, visit Software
Assurance on the web or contact your Microsoft
Be prepared volume licensing reseller.
Organizations around the world are excited
about the potential they see in cloud computing.
Software Assurance helps you prepare to move Get Software Assurance
selected functions off-premises with innovative
Software Assurance is purchased through
server licensing opportunities.
Microsoft Volume Licensing; it’s included with
License Mobility through Software Assurance some Volume Licensing agreements and is an
helps you benefit from lower-cost off-premises optional purchase with others. Your available
deployments that may be easier to scale and less benefits are determined by the types and
trouble to manage, while at the same time quantity of products that you license. Contact
retaining the value of your investment in on- your Microsoft Partner for details.
premises server licenses. You get to retain your
Learn more about Software Assurance and how
license investments and reduce your
you can take full advantage of your investments
outsourcing costs by assigning those licenses to
in Microsoft technology.
your hosting partner.