SANTA CLARA, Calif.--The business of selling software is due for an extreme makeover, industry executives said at the SoftSummit conference here. The trouble, they said, is the industry's rigid focus ...

These days, businesses are no longer as willing to accept the status quo in their relationships with technology companies. Instead, there’s a movement underway where enterprises actively seek partners ...

Broadcom has introduced value-based software licensing model designed to provide increased clarity regarding software consumption on z/OS mainframe systems. With this announcement, Broadcom says, it ...

Adam Stone writes on technology trends from Annapolis, Md., with a focus on government IT, military and first-responder technologies. In the city of Dallas, Interim CIO Brian Gardner needs to manage ...

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--Pay-as-you-go software might sound like a fine idea in principle, but it's a bear to put into practice. That was the gist of conversation at the SoftSummit conference, as software ...

Industrial equipment manufacturers are shifting from costly hardware variants to software differentiation, unlocking recurring revenue and customer value through strategic licensing models. • Managing ...

Every software company preaches customer-centricity. Yet the subscription pricing model commonplace for most cloud software is anything but customer-centric. In a subscription pricing model, customers ...

This ebook, based on the latest ZDNet / TechRepublic special feature, examines how to play multiple cloud providers off each other and what vendors and tools can help you manage multiple clouds. Read ...

A software license that is based on actual usage (server time, bytes of data transferred, transactions processed, etc.). A major incentive for cloud computing, consumption-based pricing is competing ...