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SESP Agreement
Enrolment for Education Solutions (EES)
Enrolment for Education Solutions (EES) is available for schools within the UK from the 1st March 2011
Under this agreement you can license a single school, multiple schools or an entire school system, such as a local authority. You count your Full-Time Equivalent staff once per year, so you don't have to track every single computer in your establishment. Full time equivalent are staff who work more than 200 hours per year in your school.
Key benefits of this programme include:
- Counting FTE staff once per year covers all staff and shared-use computers
- One annual payment for all software at academic prices
- Access to the most current version of licensed software
- Ability to downgrade to an earlier version of software
- Broad product selection available in all languages
- Microsoft Windows or Apple Macintosh platform
- Optional inclusion of computers exclusively dedicated to one student, and student’s
own home computers
Subscription features
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Customer Profile
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Any qualifying academic institution, typically a School, College or University with 5FTE’s or more, looking for a simple, flexible subscription based volume licensing offer.
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Minimum Requirements
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5+ FTE’s is the minimum requirement to take advantage of EES via the OVS-ES programme
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Products Availability
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The customer may order subscription licences for a wide selection of Microsoft software through EES.
The Education Desktop platform package includes:
- Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade
- Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010
- Microsoft Core CAL Suite
The Enterprise Desktop Platform includes:
- Windows 7 Enterprise Upgrade
- Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010
- Microsoft Enterprise CAL Suite
Additional Products:
A broad selection of software and services are available as additional products under your EES. Additional products may be licensed in any quantity, ranging from one licence to organisation wide
Examples of software products available as additional products include Microsoft Office Visio, Microsoft Project, Windows Server and Exchange Server, as well as additional CALs or Microsoft Online Services.
You can see a complete list of additional products on the Microsoft Product List
at www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/userights/PL.aspx
Please refer to the Microsoft
Volume Licensing Product list for complete details of currently available products.
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Contract Type
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Enrolment for Education Solutions transacted via Open Value Subscription - Education Solutions eAgreement
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Renewing Agreement
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One time 3-year extension option
At the end of your agreement, you have the following options:
- extend your subscription enrolment under the one-year licensed period
- submit a new subscription enrolment under the three-year licensed period
- exercise the buy-out option (see below)
- allow the subscription enrolment to expire, and stop using the software
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Pricing Levels
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Contact your Reseller for specific pricing.
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Student Licensing
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Student Option licences are required for computers exclusively dedicated to one student, and available for student’s own home computers. Student and faculty/staff orders cannot be combined to meet the minimum requirement
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Staying Current on Software
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Customers are licensed to run any version of products, including product upgrades
released during the designated agreement/order term.
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Access to Software Assurance Benefits
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Yes
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Work at Home Rights and Home Use Programme
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Yes, for faculty and staff users counted within your FTE count
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Sales Channel
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View a list of Microsoft Education Large Account Resellers
View a list of Microsoft Authorised Education Resellers
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For further information on the Enrolment for Education Solutions, please refer to
the EES Programme Guide
Customers wishing to convert their subscription licences (EES) to perpetual licences
can do so through buy-out licences. It should be noted that the costs of this can
be significant and should be fully understood as part of the decision to choose
EES licensing. Please contact your reseller for more information on buy-out licences.
