IBM Licensing

IBM offers two licence acquisition and Software Subscription and Support offerings - Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express. Passport Advantage, described below, is designed for larger enterprises. Passport Advantage Express is designed to meet the needs of medium-sized businesses.

IBM Passport Advantage

IBM's comprehensive software licensing and Software Subscription and Support (product upgrades and technical support) offering. It is designed for larger enterprises that may have multiple sites. Passport Advantage gives you more opportunities to obtain better pricing. Passport Advantage offers better pricing for your volume purchases over time and is based on your Relationship Suggested Volume Price (RSVP) level.

Highlights

• New enrolments require a significant initial purchase.
• You receive your RSVP level based on your initial acquisition of licences and Software Subscription and Support. We've simplified the way we calculate RSVP levels based on your requirements and suggestions.
• Each acquisition is based on your RSVP or size of the transaction - whichever results in the lower price for you.
• Your RSVP is recalculated after every transaction.
• Additional locations or sites anywhere in the world can enrol under the same agreement so your business can leverage its combined acquisition power.
• You get Software Subscription and Support with each Passport Advantage licence you purchase - and prorated renewals to your organisation's established anniversary date.
  

Passport Advantage benefits include:

• Software Subscription and Support with each licence.
• Selected Support for certain Open Source and other non-warranted code.
• Comprehensive and flexible upgrade coverage.
• Protection for your technology investments.
• Secure access to Passport Advantage Online, a Web tool that helps you manage your installed base of IBM software.
• Simplified and improved software asset management.
• Reduced acquisition and administration costs.
• Streamlined budgeting for software upgrade and migration costs.
• Immediate support coverage on newly acquired products during installation phase and for life cycle of product.
• Flexible, easy-to-access, responsive, cross-platform customer support from IBM, worldwide.
• Access to IBM software technical support for all of a customer's designated IT staff.
• Simplified acquisition and renewal of cross-platform customer support.

Software Subscription and Support

Passport Advantage includes a Software Subscription and Support feature that complements your IBM software purchases. It includes both product upgrades and technical support, and fosters successful software deployments. With product upgrades, you get complete upgrade and cross-platform migration coverage for most commercially available IBM distributed software - Lotus, WebSphere, Tivoli, Information Management, and Rational Software. You can upgrade to new releases and new versions as the needs of your business dictate. Technical Support helps keep your users up and running wherever they're working in the world. This is our way of making sure you're covered with the technical support you need. This is your way of getting an increased return on your IBM investment of a total software solution

IBM Passport Advantage Express

Designed for single-site, smaller enterprise businesses. It combines the full Passport Advantage product list with the simplicity of transaction-based acquisition. Passport Advantage Express does not require a relationship agreement - each transaction is subject to the terms and conditions effective at the time. There are no points and no aggregating - just a single price level. And with each new licence acquisition, you get renewable Software Subscription and Support.

That's all there is to it - simple, straightforward, easy.

Benefits

• Includes Software Subscription and Support with each licence.
• Provides Selected Support for certain Open Source and other non-warranted code.
• Provides comprehensive and flexible upgrade coverage.
• Protects technology investments.
• Simplifies and improves software asset management.
• Reduces acquisition and administration costs.
• Streamlines budgeting for software upgrade and migration costs.
• Provides immediate support coverage on newly acquired products during installation phase and for life cycle of product.
• Incorporates flexible, easy-to-access, responsive, cross-platform customer support from IBM, worldwide.
• Provides access to IBM software technical support for all of a customer's designated IT staff.
• Simplifies acquisition and renewal of cross-platform customer support.

Software Subscription and Support

Passport Advantage Express includes a Software Subscription and Support feature that complements your IBM software purchases. It includes both product upgrades and technical support and fosters successful software deployments. With product upgrades, you get complete upgrade and cross-platform migration coverage for most commercially available IBM distributed software - Lotus, WebSphere, Tivoli, Information Management and Rational Software. You can upgrade to new releases and new versions as the needs of your business dictate. Technical Support helps keep your users up and running wherever they are working in the world. This is our way of making sure you are covered with the technical support you need. This is your way of getting an increased return on your IBM investment of a total software solution. And, Software Subscription and Support Renewals take place on a per-transaction basis, spreading the cost throughout your budget year.

Software Subscription and Support ensures that customers always have the most up-to-date eligible versions of IBM distributed software - Lotus, WebSphere, Tivoli, Information Management, and Rational Software - and have software technical support to ensure their success in using the software.