Microsoft software assurance

Software Assurance is a competitive maintenance programme that offers you a range of additional benefits that have been designed to deliver improved efficiencies within your organisation.  Discover how Software Assurance can help you by downloading your booklet here.

Bytes is a leading authority on the benefits of Software Assurance and can offer you extensive information on how you can achieve efficiency gains by incorporating it into your IT, training, and flexible working initiatives.  

When the “Software Assurance Benefits Programme” was first introduced by Microsoft in September 2003, our market leading value-proposition was soon recognized by Microsoft (US) and the following year, at the their Worldwide Partner Conference in Toronto, we were invited to present to a global audience on how we were offering greater value to our customers via the Software Assurance programme.  We were the only Microsoft reseller invited to present on this topic. 

Our presentation led to the Microsoft “Clarity” campaign which was a global marketing initiative designed to educate other Microsoft resellers on how they should be adopting our value-based best practice.  Download your copy of the “Clarity” campaign here.

In order to take advantage of the Software Assurance benefits programme it’s important you have complete visibility of your entire software estate, as the quantity of assets you have and how they are licensed will determine how you buy-into the benefits programme, and the level of ongoing support you are able to leverage. 

“By providing customers with an innovative new service offering based on Microsoft’s Software Assurance benefits, Bytes has enabled customers to get even more value from their software investments”

Sunny Jensen Charlebois
Product Manager, Microsoft (US).

Our Software Asset Management Self Assessment Service can help you gain more from your Software Assurance agreement.  

The range of benefits now on offer via Software Assurance include:

1. New Version Rights
2. Spread Payments
3. Desktop Deployment Planning Services
4. Information Work Solution Services
5. Windows Preinstallation Environment (WinPE)
6. Windows Vista Enterprise (this is ONLY available via the Software Assurance programme.  To help you gain access to Software Assurance in time for the release of Windows Vista Enterprise, Microsoft has 2 time-sensitive promotions running.  For more information contact Bytes today.
7. Training Vouchers
8. Microsoft eLearning
9. Home Use Program
10. Employee Purchase Program
11. Enterprise Source Licensing Program (ESLP)
12. 24 x 7 Problem Resolution Support
13. Corporate Error Reporting
14. “Cold” Backups for Disaster Recovery
15. TechNet Plus and TechNet Managed Newsgroups
16. Windows Fundamentals for Legacy PCs for Software Assurance
17. Extended Hotfix Support