Newly formed Software Industry Research Board (SIRB) is offering to help businesses get their software licensing in order.

With software audits on the rise and fines from the BSA increasing the anti-piracy industry is makes resources available to help and well as enforce.

Business Software Alliance (BSA) unleashed its campaign to rid London of software piracy last month and this is only one of many such approaches to get big business licensing under control. Many organizations have already been made to pay thousands of pounds to become compliant plus recovery fees.

SIRB was created in May 2008 with the aim of providing relevant guidance and education to the business community, on the effective management of software licenses.

John Lovelock, chief executive of FAST IiS, founders of the SIRB, said: “This is a worrying turn of events but organizations should recognize that implementing an effective software asset management (SAM) programme and demonstrating willingness to get to grips with licensing can head off these risks to their business.

“Software license management is not sexy, but it is a serious area of compliance that must be addressed properly if firms are to both derive maximum value from their software and move into an area of competitive strength, and conversely to defend themselves against allegations of piracy or under-licensing.”

Market watcher IDC conducted research on behalf of SIRB, revealing 75 per cent of organizations claim to have a formal SAM strategy, but this tends to be very basic, resulting in organizations making poor decisions in relation to their software spend.

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