Software license
Dear Humber NHS Foundation Trust,
I would like to ask
Q1. Do you look after your own IT or is it outsourced?
Q2. How much did you pay in last financial year for software licenses?
Q3. How many computers users do you have?
Q4. When do you need to renew the contract with Microsoft for software licenses? What was the value of your last contract per year?
Q5. Do you currently measure software usage versus the number of licenses purchased? If so what is used for software usage metering?
Q6. Do you use a software asset management tool?
Q7. Please also provide details of IT Contracts Managers and any person(s) involved in IT Software procurement.
Yours faithfully,
Qui Mai
Dear Qui Mai
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Kind Regards
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Dear Qui Mai
I am writing to confirm that the Humber NHS Foundation Trust has now
completed its search for the information which you requested on the 10^th
April 2015.
You asked for
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|Q1. Do you look after your own IT or is it outsourced? We look after |
|our own IT |
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|Q2. How much did you pay in last financial year for software licenses? |
|The amount paid for software licences in the last financial year is |
|£7311. This is not necessarily the total of what has been ordered but it|
|is what we have actually paid for. |
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|Q3. How many computers users do you have? Approximately 3500 |
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|Q4. When do you need to renew the contract with Microsoft for software |
|licenses? What was the value of your last contract per year? Not |
|applicable |
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|Q5. Do you currently measure software usage versus the number of |
|licenses purchased? If so what is used for software usage metering? |
|Yes, SNOW SAM does this |
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|Q6. Do you use a software asset management tool? Yes, SNOW SAM |
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|Q7. Please also provide details of IT Contracts Managers and any |
|person(s) involved in IT Software procurement. |
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| Richard Brumpton, IT Services Manager, |
|[1][email address] |
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