Volume Licensing Options for Midsize Businesses

Microsoft Volume Licensing offers customized programs designed to meet the needs of your business. Tailored to the size and purchasing preference of your company, these programs provide simple, flexible, and affordable solutions that enable you to easily manage your licenses.

Just follow these steps to find the program that's right for your company.

Step 1: Learn about Volume Licensing options for midsize businesses

Microsoft Volume Licensing offers programs that provide midsize businesses with a manageable, cost-effective, and predictable way to acquire Microsoft software. Offerings and benefits are tailored to your organization's size and purchasing needs.

Open License

The Open License program is a Volume Licensing program for midsize organizations that have fewer than 250 desktop PCs. The program provides a simple, flexible, and cost-effective way to acquire Microsoft software licenses and technology.

Learn more about Open License

Open Value

The Open Value program is for midsize organizations that have fewer than 250 desktop PCs. With Open Value, your organization can use and manage Microsoft software licenses under a single agreement. Open Value offers simplified license management, better control over your investment, and better management of software costs.

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Select License

The Select License program is designed for corporate, government, and academic organizations that have 250 or more desktop PCs and mixed product and purchasing requirements. With Select License, your organization receives a volume price level for each pool of products selected (applications, systems, and servers) based on a three-year software forecast.

Learn more about Select License

Enterprise Agreement

The Enterprise Agreement program is designed for businesses that have 250 or more desktop PCs. Enterprise Agreement enables you to improve workplace productivity by standardizing on your choice of Microsoft software for all desktops across your enterprise at discounted prices based on a three-year agreement term.

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Enterprise Subscription Agreement

The Enterprise Subscription Agreement program is designed for businesses that have 250 or more desktop PCs. With Enterprise Subscription Agreement, your company can subscribe to—rather than purchase—Microsoft software licenses. Enterprise Subscription Agreement offers significant discounts off full retail prices, lower annual payments, and pricing flexibility to accommodate acquisitions and divestitures.

Learn more about Enterprise Subscription Agreement

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Step 2: Decide which Volume Licensing option is best for your company

	Volume Licensing Recommendation Tool Use this tool to determine which Volume Licensing program may be right for your company.
	Compare Volume Licensing Options (Portable Document Format file, 740 KB) This chart makes it easy to compare the benefits and features of Microsoft Volume Licensing programs.
	Microsoft License Advisor This online tool provides Volume Licensing program comparisons and guidance, simplifies Microsoft product selection through a series of questions, and produces a downloadable report and estimated retail price (ERP) or recommended retail price (RRP) quote in Microsoft Word or Microsoft Excel.

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Step 3: Learn about Microsoft Software Assurance

Software Assurance is available with most Volume Licensing programs and offers valuable benefits to help you maximize your return on software investments. You'll get enhanced training and support for IT staff and end users, greater licensing flexibility to enable software access from multiple locations, access to the most current Microsoft products and solutions, and much more.

Learn more about the benefits of Software Assurance

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Step 4: Learn about Microsoft Financing

Microsoft Financing and its finance solutions partners provide affordable, innovative financing programs for organizations of any size. With programs for licensing and financing Microsoft solutions available in 12 countries, Microsoft Financing helps customers around the globe acquire the IT solutions they need to stay competitive.

•	For global businesses whose IT requirements include software, services, partner solutions, and hardware, Microsoft Financing and Microsoft Certified Partners offer Total Solution Financing and Enterprise Financing.
•	For organizations that already license software from Microsoft, Microsoft Financing and its finance solutions partners offer License Financing to enable businesses to preserve financing resources by spreading software costs over an extended period of time.

To find out how to take advantage of the flexible financing options available through Microsoft Financing, contact the Microsoft Financing Sales Group at msfsales@microsoft.com.

Learn more about Total Solution Financing
Learn more about Enterprise Financing
Learn more about License Financing
View frequently asked questions from customers

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Step 5: Learn how to acquire Volume Licensing

For more information, contact your Microsoft partner or find an authorized reseller near you. If you are not currently working with a Microsoft partner, contact an authorized Microsoft reseller to learn more about acquiring Microsoft Volume Licensing.

United States and Canada

Call (800) 426-9400 in the United States or (877) 568-2495 in Canada.

Find an authorized reseller near you

Worldwide

For information about offerings available outside the United States and Canada, including Open Value Subscription, visit the Microsoft Volume Licensing Web site for your country or region.

Find the Microsoft Volume Licensing Web site for your region

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