Microsoft Open Value SQL Server - software assurance

Business today demands a different kind of data management solution. Performance, scalability, and reliability are essential, but businesses now expect more from their key IT investments. SQL Server exceeds dependability requirements and provides innovative capabilities that increase employee effectiveness, integrate heterogeneous IT ecosystems, and maximize capital and operating budgets. SQL Server provides the enterprise data management platform your organization needs to adapt quickly in a fast-changing environment. With the lowest implementation and maintenance costs in the industry, SQL Server delivers rapid return on your data management investment. SQL Server supports the rapid development of enterprise-class business applications that can give your company a critical competitive advantage. Benchmarked for scalability, speed, and performance, SQL Server is a fully enterprise-class database product, providing core support for Extensible Markup Language (XML) and Internet queries. MICROSOFT OPEN VALUE Microsoft Open Value is a premium volume licensing offer available under the Open License family. Designed for organizations with as few as five computers, Open Value offers simpler license tracking, greater control over the software upgrade cycle, and better software cost management. Open Value also offers the advantages of Software Assurance (SA), which includes new version upgrades, technical training, user training, partner services, and product support. These benefits are available through the term of the agreement to improve software resource planning, ROI measurement, and IT professional and user productivity. Microsoft Open Value offers many benefits: Track licenses more easily. Open Value provides a single agreement to track all licenses on all your desktops, run the same software version on all your PCs, upgrade to the next version at any time, or run a mix of software versions without having to track what is deployed on each desktop. Gain control of your upgrade cycle. Open Value grants you the rights to run any version of the licensed software and to upgrade at any time, when it is most convenient for you. Budget more effectively and save money. Open Value offers predictable annual payments, so you can make better informed decisions about what IT projects need to happen each year. In addition, volume pricing helps stretch software budgets further than retail purchase options. Get easy access to all the software you need. A broad worldwide reseller channel ensures you have convenient access to thousands of software titles. Spread payments. Open Value lets you spread your software costs over three annual payments so you can more effectively manage your software budget and get the software you need now. SOFTWARE ASSURANCE Microsoft's Software Assurance gives you automatic access to new technology and provides productivity benefits, support, tools, and training to help deploy and use software efficiently. With Software Assurance, you receive access to new versions of licensed software released during the term of your agreement to deploy at your own pace. New Version Rights simplifies the procurement process and shortens the business process cycle, allowing you to reduce the costs associated with acquiring new version releases and immediately take advantage of the latest technology. Software Assurance offers greater flexibility in managing technology expenditures by allowing you to spread payments annually. This allows you to reduce initial costs and forecast annual software budget requirements up to three years in advance.