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Big savings for small & medium businesses

With price advantages for purchasing in volume, the following Microsoft Volume Licensing programs provide both convenience and flexibility for small and medium sized businesses with 5 or more PCs:

• Open Value Subscription: Recommended for businesses looking for low upfront costs and the flexibility to increase or decrease licenses on an annual basis.

• Open Value: Recommended for businesses wanting to own their licenses at the end of an agreement term and pay annually over a three year agreement.

• Open License: Entry level program that allows you to pay as you go.

For eligible education and government organisations there are local New Zealand licensing programs available for you to take advantage of.

Maximise the return on your IT investment

Discover how these Microsoft Volume Licensing programs can support your dynamic IT infrastructure and simplify software license management:

• Enterprise Agreement: Provides cost savings beyond standard license pricing, helps your business standardize IT across the enterprise, and includes comprehensive Software Assurance benefits.

• Enterprise Subscription Agreement: Provides the benefits of an Enterprise Agreement with lower up-front costs and additional flexibility.

• Select Plus: Acquire software licenses and services by business unit while realizing volume purchasing advantages as one organisation. The agreement never expires and has an optional 36 months of Software Assurance.

For eligible education and government organisations there are local New Zealand licensing programs available for you to take advantage of.

Resources to help answer your questions so you can get the most out of your Microsoft Licensing:

• Product Licensing information: (Volume Licensing customers)
  Quick access to licensing terms, conditions and supplemental information relevant to the use of products licensed through Microsoft Volume Licensing programs.

• Product Usage Rights: (Volume Licensing customers)
  Detailed Product Usage information to help you to understand usage rights for Microsoft Products purchased through Volume Licensing Programs. Updated quarterly.

• Program Information: (Volume Licensing customers)
  Detailed information regarding the discontinuation of products, Software Assurance Benefits, product migration paths and more. Updated monthly.

• Purchase History Reports: (Volume Licensing customers)
  Customers can get a consolidated view of what they’ve purchased through Volume Licensing Programs by emailing info@accordo.com

• Licensing Briefs: (Volume Licensing Customers)
  Volume Licensing Briefs provide in-depth knowledge of licensing topics. They are particularly useful for learning about complex licensing situations involving new technologies or combinations of products.

• Product Licensing Terms: (OEM & Retail customers)
  Locate the license terms for software licensed to you by Microsoft or the computer manufacturer.

• Licensing Helpdesk: (available to both customers and partners)
  In the first instance: Customers please contact your partner; partners please contact your distributor. For immediate assistance please contact the Microsoft licensing helpdesk on 0800 800 004 (press option 5) – available 9.30am–7.30pm Monday–Friday excluding public holidays

For eligible education and government organisations there are local New Zealand licensing programs available for you to take advantage of.

Handy Phone Numbers:

Licensing Helpdesk 0800-800-004 (press 5)

Volume Licensing Service Centre support 0800-444-647 (press 1)

Software Assurance Benefit Support 0800-444-647 (press 2)

Product Activation Hotline 0800-676-334

Download easy-to-read one-page licensing PDFs, created in New Zealand for New Zealand partners and customers:

Product Licensing

Client Access Licenses 101	What is a Client Access License (CAL), and do you need one?
Windows Licensing 101	What you need to know when licensing the Windows desktop

Program Licensing

Microsoft Open Programs Comparison Chart	Compare Open License, Open Value and Open Value Subscription programs.
Open Value Subscription Customer Overview	The ultimate in licensing flexibility...Extremely low entry costs and as well as the ability to either add or reduce licenses annually.
Open Value Subscription Customer Reference	Addition to the Open Value Subscription Overview document - goes into more detail about Open Value Subscription.
Open Value Subscription - customer welcome	Everything new customers to Open Value Subscription should know about their agreement, and how to ensure it runs smoothly
Step Up Licenses	The easy and cost effective way to move from one edition of a product to another.
OEM Software Licensing	Understand the rules and restrictions that OEM licenses have. Includes information on downgrade rights, re-imaging and much more.

Piracy & Software Asset Management

Identifying Counterfeit Software	Find out what to look for when purchasing software off online trading sites, or from unknown sources. Beware of counterfeit software!
Software Asset Management	Managing your Software Assets - how to do it and why it's important.
D.I.Y. Software Asset Management	A step by step guide to do a D.I.Y. Software Asset Management Review (for SMB customers).

For eligible education and government organisations there are local New Zealand licensing programs available for you to take advantage of.