Software Noncompliance
The Cost of Noncompliance
Being found to be in noncompliance for sofware in use in an organisation by a third party i.e. a software vendor or industry body such as The Business Software Alliance (BSA) will be far more expensive than undertaking this exercise as an internal project. Noncompliance can be costly. Organisations that are out of compliance not only have to settle up with the manufacturers, but they may also have to pay fines that can total in the region of £100,000 per infraction.
Organisations that do not focus on software compliance risk even more-costly audits from other software vendors, which tend to follow one another in auditing organisations that don’t have a handle on compliance.
The good news is that periodic audits are easy to do, are relatively inexpensive-and can offer major cost benefits. Have a look at the case study at:
http://www.centennial-software.com/images/upload/Telegraph_%20Centennial.pdf
which clearly demonstrates the potential cost savings to taking control of compliance rather than wait to be audited.
