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Microsoft Select
You may choose a Select Agreement if:
- Your organisation is medium to large sized
- You have 250 or more PCs
- You have mixed product and purchasing requirements
- You want the flexibility to adjust your requirements as your needs change.
A Select Licence Agreement lasts for three years but gives you on-going rights to the software versions you've installed. The agreement is based on predicting your software needs.
To get the best discounts, you need to 'forecast' your software usage in advance over the three years of the agreement from three product pools (or categories); applications, operating systems and servers, and your price level is based on this forecast. Each year your usage is checked and your price level may be increased or decreased depending on usage.
Benefits:
- Flexibility to purchase and pay for licenses as and when needed
- Get major discounts which grow according to how much software you expect to license during your agreement
- Get the latest Microsoft software upgrades through Software Assurance
- Structure your payments for licence and Software Assurance costs annually over the period of your agreement
- Buy licences through multiple purchasing locations for departments or subsidiaries across the world
- Simplify the management of your software licences with our online tools
Summary
Agreement term: | 3 years (with 1 or 3 years option of extension) |
Licenses: | License, Software Assurance, License & Software Assurance Package |
Product groups: | Applications (Office 2007, Word, Excel, Project, Visio, Visual .NET, etc.) |
Operational systems: | Windows Vista |
Server: | Windows 2008 Server, Exchange Server, CALs, etc. |
Price levels: | Each product offering is assigned specific point values to determine price levels. Points are calculated based on three product pools, with a minimum three year forecast of points to be acquired for each price level:
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Sales channel: | Microsoft Authorized Large Account Reseller only |
Agreements
Please check to see if a Microsoft licensing agreement already exists - if so, it may cover your needs and even offer extra benefits.
With Select, you can cover multiple business units around the world with one agreement, which means you can pass the discounts on to smaller departments and subsidiaries.
We will be pleased to advise you.
Select Plus
Microsoft Select Plus (which will eventually replace Select) allows customers to purchase their software licences and services at any business unit level, while realising advantages as one organisation. Since the agreement never expires, customers do not need to renegotiate and renew agreements every three years.
Select Plus also adds value with:
- Simplified purchasing agreements. Organisations are provided with a single agreement under the Master Business Agreement (MBA). This agreement never expires for transactional purchases, providing more flexibility, while eliminating the need to renegotiate and renew every three years.
- Organised purchases. Select Plus Agreements are assigned to a single Customer ID, so asset reporting can be done under a single, master agreement.
- Licence management. Enhanced self-service, online tools give customers and partners better management capabilities.
- Great savings. Simple, automated, volume-based discounts can be applied to licensed product purchases across the entire customer organisation at the corporate and affiliate locations.
- More value from Microsoft Software Assurance. Organisations can buy and receive a full 36 months of benefits, without proration based on purchase timing.
- Takeaways eliminated. Customers can renew or sign a new agreement under the Select Plus program. Software Assurance covered by a Select License agreement still applies to the licensed products until its original expiration, and it may be renewed under Select Plus—so customers can accrue the full value of Software Assurance starting with the new agreement.
- Cross-language use rights. These rights can help enhance an organisation’s global presence by ensuring that staff located in different countries can easily communicate. Note that customers may not licence in one language and deploy that licensed product in another language with a differing value.
- Downgrade rights. Organisations can now standardise on versions. Downgrade rights offer the right to purchase the latest software version available, yet still run a previous version.
- Training and evaluation software licences. These licences help organisations budget for software training and evaluation, and include:
20 copies per software title for use in a dedicated training facility.
10 copies per software title for a 60-day evaluation. - Re-Imaging rights. Providing added convenience during product rollouts, these rights allow the customer to use certain licensed product media for copying software onto multiple devices from one standard image.
- Secondary use rights. These rights can help increase productivity by allowing primary users of a licensed desktop PC to share the same application licence with a portable PC (for work-related purposes only).
For more information, please contact us.
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