Software Assurance
Smart IT investments support effective organizations
The success of your organization relies on an effective IT infrastructure that provides innovative,
efficient, and cost-effective ways to address new business scenarios. Your IT investments are smartly planned, managed, and supported. Equally as important, your employees are trained,
excited, and ready to take fullest advantage of the productivity gains that the latest technology offers. Does that describe your organization? Software Assurance from Microsoft helps make sure you can answer Yes!
The Software Assurance advantage
Get more out of your Microsoft
Software Assurance is a comprehensive Volume Licensing feature that includes an extensive set of technologies, services, rights, and benefits to help you and your organization get the most out of your investments in IT.
Software Assurance spans a broad range of Microsoft software and services, including Windows,
Microsoft Office, Azure, System Center, SQL Server, and many others.
With Software Assurance, you get the tools and resources you need to do more with the IT
investments you plan to make as well as those you have already made.
Software Assurance is available exclusively through Microsoft Volume Licensing a costeffective, flexible, and manageable way to license Microsoft products across your organization.
Reduce costs, improve efficiency, and increase productivity
Software Assurance helps your organization spend less and do more.
With New Version Rights, you can upgrade to the most recent product version for no additional cost. Your employees can purchase low-cost downloads of Office to use at home, and your organization gets flexible licensing rights and use options to best support office and mobile workers on a broad range of devices.
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Software Assurance at-a-Glance
The Azure Hybrid Benefit allows you to save on Windows Server and SQL Server VMs in Azure by utilizing your on-premises licenses with Software Assurance.
Software Assurance provides a broad range of benefits to help improve business agility
Deployfaster and manage better
Software Assurance tools and technologies can help you standardize and speed application deployments, which can be a huge time-saver. You get greater control of the tools that your employees are using and less downtime. Your employees get the technology they need, when they need it.
You also get deployment flexibility with License Mobility and Flexible Virtualization. These, and additional disaster recovery and fail-over benefits, help maintain a stable, secure, and available infrastructure.
Be prepared
Organizations around the world are excited about the potential they see in cloud computing.
Software Assurance helps you prepare to move selected functions off-premises with innovative server licensing opportunities.
License Mobility through Software Assurance helps you benefit from lower-cost off-premises deployments that may be easier to scale and less trouble to manage, while at the same time
