Volume Licensing can be tailored to the unique needs, size and purchasing preference of your organisation. It offers volume discounts and the option of flexible payment plans. It provides an effective way for you to add the latest Microsoft® products and upgrades to your business. That means you could save money and have greater control over your software investment.

There are two types of Volume Licenses suitable for businesses with fewer than 250 computers: Open Business and Open Value.

Open Business and Open Value are suitable for small and midsized customers that need to purchase 5 or more licenses, and have fewer than 250 computers in their organisation.

There are three types of Volume Licenses suitable for businesses with more than 250 computers: Select License, Select Plus and Enterprise Agreement programs. These are also programs best suited to Government and Education customers.

Open Business is a single agreement offering a 2-year term and upfront payments. It’s designed for businesses that don’t want to purchase large volumes of software but would prefer to pay for software licenses, as they need them. The initial order must be for five or more licenses but can include any combination of Microsoft products thereafter.

Open Value is a single agreement that offers a 3-year term and allows you to spread your payments over the term of the agreement. It allows you to add licensed products throughout the agreement term with annualised pricing which helps you to manage your cash flow. Open Value also provides options for you to acquire additional services, tools, support and training to help you maximise your software assessment.

The Open Value program offers three options:

	Subscription
	Company-wide
	Non-company-wide

The subscription option is for businesses that prefer to rent or lease on a ‘per computer’ price for software (minimum of five computers). This option gives your business the rights to run the software only during the term of the agreement with Microsoft.

With this option, your business has the right to run specific Microsoft software (perpetual) across all the computers in your organisation. This makes it easy to manage a standard across all the computers within your organisation. As a result you'll have greater control over software deployment. You can add licenses onto this agreement for any additional computers you have, and you can add additional licenses for other Microsoft software on a non-company-wide basis. There is also the option of making annual payments to help you manage your cash flow.

With the non-company-wide option, you can license software on a portion of your computers or servers, and help manage your software costs by paying for your license in three annualised payments.

Flexibility: Volume Licenses can be tailored to suit the size and type of any business.

Transfers: Licences can be transferred from one computer to another.

Software Assurance: When you purchase Software Assurance, you gain access to a comprehensive set of benefits designed to help you stay current, manage costs, and increase productivity. Benefits include: help with your IT maintenance, additional technical support and training, deployment assistance, software upgrades, home use rights, and more. Open Value includes Software Assurance and is optional with Open Business.

Control: Volume Licences serve the needs of organisations that acquire multiple licenses, but do not need numerous copies of the media and the accompanying documentation.

Volume discount: Businesses with as few as 5 PCs can acquire licenses with discounts. Lower pricing is also available for eligible government and academic organisations.

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