Success on the Open Source BI Forum

2010 November 3.

Our senior consultant Dr. Eszter Telek made a presentation on 19th October titled „Open source software and copyright law” on the Open Source BI Forum. As we were informed by the organizer of the conference Eszter’s presentation – based on the evaluation by the participants – was one of the three best presentations with equal scores. [...]

Can magic words impede the second hand software market?

2010 October 25.

A recently issued U.S. court decision has confused the parties who are interested in second hand software business, because, according to the decision, the appropriate wording of certain provisions of the software licenses can prevent users to sell the legally obtained software copies. An article from our senior consultant Dr. Eszter Telek in the PressRoom. [...]

New version of ClientPack has been released!

2010 October 20.

New version of ClientPack – loaded with a lot of new features – has been released.

The SAM-Insights Client Pack is a complex utility, which contains the SAMScan data collector client. It lets the client to store the data collections offline and upload it when a network connection available. It [...]

Secondhand buyers in Europe can feel safe

2010 October 15.

Ever bought a book or a DVD secondhand? A court verdict in the United States on the resale of software may mean that across the pond, you’d be breaking the law. Fortunatley, Europe has a different approach. The Budapest Business Journal asked our senior consultant Dr. Eszter Telek. Read the article in the PressRoom. [...]

Free software, Free love?

2010 July 14.

Nowadays it is not impossible to cover all software needs in a company with open source/free sorftware or freeware, but people usually lacks proper knowledge in licensing these products.

The article from our consultant Sándor Nagy can be read on the Bitport business information portal [...]

Further MCP exams in IPR

2010 July 12.

2 consultants of IPR-Insights successfully passed a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exams. The 70-671 – Designing and Providing Microsoft Volume Licensing Solutions to Small and Medium Organizations and the 70-672 – Designing and Providing Microsoft Volume Licensing Solutions to Large Organizations exam was not completely new for them, because they [...]

ISO 19770-2 compatible identification

2010 June 21.

SAMScan has a brand new extension that allows SAM-Insights to process software tags defined by the ISO 19770-2 standard.

The ISO/IEC 19770-2:2009 standard establishes specifications for tagging software to optimize its identification and management. SAMScan, the software scanner module of SAM-Insights system has the extension that identifies and [...]

Linux SAMScan released

2010 June 11.

The new, Linux edition of SAMScan is released. This new module enables SAM-Insights to run automated scanning of softwares installed on Linux.

Further MCP exams in IPR

2010 June 9.

5 consultants of IPR-Insights successfully passed a Microsoft Certified Professional (MCP) exam. The 70-673 – Designing, Assessing, and Optimizing Software Asset Management (SAM) exam was not completely new for us, because four of us has passed earlier the 70-123 – Planning, Implementing, and Maintaining a Software Asset Management (SAM) Program [...]

Why is it important to read the software license?

2010 June 8.

Reading the software licenses is very important, but your company’s compliance is not the only reason. Detailed knowlegde about the licenses might result in greater freedom or lower costs.

The article from our senior consultant Dr. Eszter Telek can be read on the Bitport [...]