Check out this best practice document from the Business Software Alliance, A.K.A. The people who bust companies for software piracy. It contains some easy and obvious best practices for Software Management.
"Of the $13 million that the Business Software Alliance (BSA) reaped in software violation settlements with North American companies last year, almost 90 percent came from small-medium businesses" -Associated Press 11/26/2007
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