vendors of software
1Software plus services — [ [http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en us/architecture/aa699384.aspx Software + Services (S+S) ] ] describes the idea of combining hosted services with capabilities that are best achieved with locally running software. It describes composite… …
2Software protection dongle — This article is about the software protection devices. Dongle can also refer to, e.g., serial ports, USB flash drives, wireless networking devices, USB Mobile broadband modems. Daisy chained parallel port copy protection dongles. A software… …
3Software as a service — (SaaS, typically pronounced sass ) is a model of software deployment where an application is hosted as a service provided to customers across the Internet. By eliminating the need to install and run the application on the customer s own computer …
4Software Lifecycle Management — is the concept that an Independent software vendor can control how its software is licensed and used throughout its usable lifecycle. Because software is not always a static product, vendor s often add additional features and/or updates for… …
5Software engineering — (SE) is the application of a systematic, disciplined, quantifiable approach to the development, operation, and maintenance of software, and the study of these approaches; that is, the application of engineering to software.[1] It is the… …
6Software product management — is the process of managing software that is built and served as a product as opposed to a serviceoftware productsA software product is typically a single application or suite of applications built by a software company to be used by *many*… …
7Software quality assurance — (SQA) consists of a means of monitoring the software engineering processes and methods used to ensure quality. It does this by means of audits of the quality management system under which the software system is created. These audits are backed by …
8Software copyright — Software copyright, the relatively recent extension of copyright law to machine readable software. It is used by proprietary software companies to prevent the unauthorized copying of their software. It is also used by proponents of open source… …
9Software metering — refers to several area: *Tracking and maintaining software licenses. One needs to make sure that only the allowed number of licenses are in use, and at the same time, that there are enough licenses for everyone using it. This can include… …
10Software licensing audit — Software Asset Management is an organization process, which is outlined in ISO/IEC 19770 1. It is also now embraced within # ISO 27001:2005 Information Technology Security Techniques Information Security Management Systems Requirements [cite… …
