The Ins and Outs of Outsourcing
If you run a medium to large sized business you will likely have considered outsourcing at some step along the way to building your successful company. Even if you have only recently started out as a small business with just a handful of employees you may well have built outsourcing into your five or ten year plan for the company’s infrastructure.
Software Licensing Metrics – Machine Compute Capacity
Welcome to this final article on software licensing metrics, we hope that you have found it both interesting and informative. In this last article we will be looking at Machine Compute Capacity as a license metric.
Thinking big about small business data backups
One hazard of operating a small business is thinking that your data backup plans have to be small too. Data backups are essential to maintaining your business, especially as databases grow and press the limits of your hardware.
Software Licensing Metrics – Physical Machine
In this series of articles on software licensing metrics we have so far covered a range of different metric types which measure the process or task carried out by the software in a variety of ways. In these two final articles in the series, we will be looking at Physical Machine and Machine Compute Capacity as metrics.
Software Licensing Metrics – Concurrent User
In our last article on software licensing metrics we discussed ‘Named User’ as a unit of measurement. In this article we will be looking at ‘Concurrent Users’ which is easily confused with Named User as they both rely on measuring the usage level according to the number of users. The crucial difference, which we will elaborate on more in a moment, is that where the Named User uses either the number of logins, Users with access or the actual CPU usage by each user – Concurrent users relies on the number of simultaneous uses. A seemingly minor, but still important distinction.
Software Licensing Metrics – Performance
In our most recent article on software licensing metrics, we looked at the Managed Capacity metric which enables you to distribute different types of software to a wide range of customers of different sizes and charge them accordingly. In this article we will be looking at the Performance metric, which is a little harder to define, but is still worth considering as it comes under the same banner as Managed Capacity metric – namely a metric which does not measure the individual aspects of the software’s use but rather the overall service which it provides to the customer.