What is SoftSummit?

SoftSummit is a unique executive-focused conference dedicated to building stronger partnerships between software and hardware executives and their enterprise customers. Over two intense days, software and hardware executives, industry experts, thought leaders, analysts, and executives from leading corporations come together to discuss the issues shaping the business management of software.

To truly partner, software/hardware companies and enterprises need answers to these questions:


For software executives:

  • How can we more accurately track software purchases and improve customer service?
  • How can we grow market share in mature industries?
  • How can we stop piracy from eroding revenue?
  • How can we integrate new systems from M&As?
  • How can we recognize revenue promptly each quarter?

For enterprise CTOs and IT directors:

  • How can we stay in compliance?
  • Are we getting fair value from software?
  • How can we report on how we truly use software?
  • How can we ensure end users can access the software they need?

Tools and strategies exist today to provide the critical facts needed to answers these questions and bring software producers and their customers closer together. SoftSummit is the only conference dedicated to sharing those tools and strategies and using them to enable software producers and enterprises to have fact-based conversations on their most pressing issues.

Only at SoftSummit can attendees forge stronger relationships with one another by taking part in open, fact-based discussions on the challenges and best practices for maximizing the value of the software they produce and rely on. Topics covered at SoftSummit range from high-level strategic conversations around the role software plays in today's evolving business models to more practical talks about how to use factual industry data to better manage applications.

Attendees of past SoftSummits will notice how this year's conference has also evolved to better meet their needs and cover the topics most pressing to them. The need for strong partnerships between software producers and their enterprise customers has never been more critical, and SoftSummit helps make it happen.
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Why Attend?

SoftSummit provides a unique real-world perspective by letting leading software and hardware producers share the stage with independent experts and, most importantly, customers. It is dedicated to building stronger partnerships between software and hardware executives and their customers through open, fact-based discussions on the issues.
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SoftSummit 2008 and Acresso

Acresso Software, the makers of FLEXnet, is fully dedicated to powering the business of software for our customers. For over 25 years, Acresso's solutions (formerly a division of Macrovision) have helped software and hardware producers and their customers maximize revenue, cut costs, and eliminate manual processes.
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2007 Software Pricing and Licensing Report

2008 Key Trends in Pricing and Licensing Survey


Results of the 2008 "Key Trends in Software Pricing and Licensing" survey, released at the annual SoftSummit conference, revealed that, while progress is being made, there are still significant industry shortcomings in software entitlement and compliance management, as well as in enterprise license optimization; economic factors are increasing the attention on both issues.
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SoftSummit Press Room

Find SoftSummit News and Press information in the Press Room.
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