Software Licensing Programs

Software / Software Licensing Programs
Zones acts as an advocate for you as a software client, ensuring that you get the most value out of your software investments. Zones software licensing specialists possess the knowledge, experience, skills and certifications necessary to accurately assist with software evaluations, deployments and management. Trust Zones to reduce the complexity, and your costs, throughout the software licensing process.
Zones will help you save money and will optimize the value of all your software assets. Contact your Zones Account Manager or call 800.408.9663.

Subscription

A subscription, or non-perpetual license, gives you the right to use the software for a specified period of time (typically, a year). Once that term is over, you can choose to renew. Subscription licensing is most applicable in cloud computing. The cloud can best be summed up as any per-user, subscription-based IT service that affords the IT professional with the ability to add features and functionality, and manage capacity and software licensing count. Zones offers subscriptions for most of its brand partners.

Perpetual

A perpetual license is one with no expiration date. The end user owns this license; it is everlasting and valid, provided the software is being used in accordance with the license-agreement requirements. Common example: Windows on your computer.

Retail Box

Retail box copies of some software are available from Zones, typically for consumer products that are also sold in stores and through online retailers. A shrink-wrapped or boxed product includes one software disk plus documentation and one perpetual license for the software. One box equals one license key.