The resale of software licenses increased in Europe since a judgment July 3, 2012 by the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The secondary market can provide opportunities for organizations, but is not without risk. Evidenced by a report from the Cigref , a network of large companies, performed with SoftCorner , B2B market place of software used .
The software represents between 20 and 40% of IT budgets, according to the report. The complexity of business models (licensing), the increase in license audits by the publishers, the risk of non-compliance and fiscal pressure on DSI make managing software assets ( SEM -. Software Asset Management) must
To reduce costs and rebalance the relationship between suppliers and users, the secondary market of the software is an option. In business, the purchasing department can benefit from attractive pricing conditions.
The IT Department, meanwhile, has the ability to: resell licenses (décommissionnées not deployed) Operational maintain an information system by accessing old versions of software that are no longer available on the primary market. Or, adjust the park following an audit or an internal reorganization, says Silicon.fr
According to European case law, are allowed to resale them. OEM licenses, licenses canned and volume. But not licenses rental, SaaS subscriptions, provisional licenses and service contracts.
According Cigref and SoftCorner, the market is mainly concentrated in Germany and the UK, with ten intermediates present. Business volumes in these countries at around respectively, “35 million euros and 25 million euros” , the report said.
In France, market is becoming. Publishers fear the negative effects of this resale on their business models, while the ESN / consulting firms integrate more willingly to their strategy resale of used licenses.
The price of second hand licenses vary according to supply and demand. But “Forward the thinning of trade, which will accompany the market matures, will the empirical structuring a argus determining the value of a license at a time T” , provides Cigref.
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