• What is software piracy?
• Economic Impact
• Why should we fight software piracy?
• Know the law

• Identifying genuine software
• Tools & Resources for Businesses

• Business Software Alliance (BSA)
• BSA partners and members

BSA believes most businesses are ethical, but unfortunately, not all may understand that good corporate governance means a good system of checks and balances throughout the organisation to ensure ethical and legal operations.

Remember, software asset management (SAM) has far reaching implications for your business. Well-implemented SAM allows for significant cost savings, not only in direct expenditure on software, but also in related process and infrastructure costs. It puts companies in a stronger negotiating position with software manufacturers and improves software purchasing arrangements.

In addition, SAM enables more strategic infrastructure planning, prevents over-licensing and identifies over-deployment of hardware while reducing the IT administrative and support burden with its associated costs. It also allows the IT department to control exactly what software an employee has access to and significantly reduces the opportunity for users to introduce unlicensed software to your network.

Below are numerous tools you'll need to help you implement an effective SAM policy within your organisation.

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SAM Power Point for Employees (PPT)
Communicate to your employees the importance of software audits, software compliance and licensing. It will help prevent the risks associated with workplace software piracy.

SAM Employee Policy
An employee policy on software management can help a business avoid the risk.

SAM Employee Memorandum
This memo is a companion to the employee policy.

Workroom Posters
Posting a software piracy reminder on an office workroom bulletin board or above a computer station is always helpful.