Volume Licensing Solutions

Microsoft Open Value - Licensing as simple as 1, 2, 3: Spend more time building your business and less time managing licenses.

Open Value 2.0 Overview

How To Choose a Licensing Program?

	Volume Licensing		OEM	FPP
Customer Question	Open Value Three-year agreement with upgrades	Open Business Two-year agreement without upgrades	Pre installed on new computers	Boxed software, acquired through retail
Do you have fewer than five computers?	No	No	Yes	Yes
Do you upgrade software only when purchasing new computers?	No	No	Yes	No
Do you need to create standard images to configure new computers?	Yes	Yes	No	No
Do you have many licensing agreements and find it difficult to track what you own?	Yes	Yes	No	No
Do you want to standardize your desktop software?	Yes	Yes	No	No
Do you prefer to upgrade to the latest Microsoft software?	Yes	No	No	No
Do you need to minimize up-front costs by spreading payments over three years?	Yes	No	No	No

 

What Is Open Value 2.0?

A three-year agreement with a company wide option that lets you pay annually for the right to run the same version of software across your company and upgrade to the latest versions as they're released.

Two Options:

• Open Value - Purchase licenses with Software Assurance for Microsoft solutions as you deploy
• Open Value Company Wide - Cover all of the desktops in your organization with the Microsoft platform

 

Company Wide Option: Simplest Licensing For All Desktops:

Desktop Professional Platform	Small Business Platform
Microsoft Office Professional Edition	Office Small Business Edition
Microsoft Core CAL (includes: Windows Server, Exchange, SPS, SMS)	Microsoft Windows SBS CAL
Microsoft Windows XP Upgrade	Microsoft Windows XP upgrade

>> Simplest License Tracking

• One license per desktop

>> Easiest way to control upgrade cycle

• Upgrade any desktop at any time
• CALs for Windows server, Microsoft Exchange server, Microsoft Systems Management server (SMS), Microsoft SharePoint Services (SPS) always current

>> Best cost management option

• Additional savings over company wide discounts (based on reference price)
• Single per-desktop cost for common Microsoft desktop software

 

Open Value - How to Buy:

>> Opening an agreement

• Purchase minimum of 5 desktop licenses or 1 server license

>> Adding license to agreement

• All other server and desktop licenses can be added at any time and paid for in the month of installation. The software Assurance is pro-rated annually.
• Software Assurance on new hardware with OEM software may be purchased within 90 days of installation
• Can pay up front or spread costs over remaining years in agreement

>> Specify if you wish to purchase the Company Wide option to standardize and save money on your license costs

>> Purchase can be made through your current reseller