Acquiring and managing your organization’s software can be particularly challenging, especially for complex licensing agreements. These require not only an understanding of the technologies being purchased, but more often than not, also legal and financial considerations, as well as specific knowledge of legislation and banking processes of the country where the licenses are being purchased. Therefore, software acquisition and management can involve not only the IT Department but the also the Procurement and Legal Departments.

Given these complexities your organization either needs to develop internal skills to have a thorough understanding of software licensing or it can partner with a company that specializes in this subject matter, thus allowing your organization to focus on its core business. This is the role that Menshen can assume as our Licensing Team can work closely with your organization to clarify the complexities of the many agreements offered by the software manufacturers we represent. Our team can help you choose the right agreement and reduce the burden of contract management to ensure that your organization has made the correct decision regarding any licensing purchase.

More than 60.000 Microsoft Licenses Sold!

Menshen has sold more than 50.000 Microsoft licenses in Angola for companies of all sizes, as well as government and academic institutions.

Today, Menshen is the largest Microsoft reseller in Angola. Menshen’s commitment to the quality of its services, to the training of its Licensing Specialists team and to the integrity and transparency in its business relationships with clients and partners has made this distinction possible. When you consider the various volume licensing options that Microsoft offers for organizations, IT and procurement managers must navigate a complex set of options during their decision-making process.

As a Microsoft Authorized Education Reseller (AER) Menshen is specially trained and authorized to sell Microsoft Academic Edition software products and licenses to qualified educational users. Microsoft education pricing can reduce overall software costs for educational institutions, their staff, and students. It does however require that clients that want to benefit from this pricing present documentation that validates their educational status. For a free consultation on your school’s/university software licensing needs, contact Menshen today.

Menshen provides the following models of Microsoft Licensing Agreements

Open License is a good choice if you are a corporate, academic, charitable, or government organization that wants to pay as you go. You must have a minimum initial purchase of five software licenses for an Open License agreement, but you can acquire additional licensed products through Open License in any quantity at any time during the two-year agreement term.

Open Value is the recommended program if you have a small to midsize organization with five or more desktop PCs and want to simplify license management, manage software costs, and get better control over your investment. It also includes Software Assurance, providing access to valuable benefits such as training, deployment planning, software upgrades, and product support help you boost the productivity of your entire organization.

Open Value Subscription provides the lowest up-front costs of the Open Program options with the flexibility to reduce the total licensing costs in years when the desktop PC count declines This option gives your organization the rights to run the software throughout your organization only during the term of the agreement with Microsoft.

Menshen is a Microsoft Gold Certified Partner with specific licensing capabilities as well as a Microsoft Enterprise Direct Advisor (EDA) role. This is the highest distinction in this sector for Angola, and is the only one that allows licensing of Enterprise Agreements, available for businesses with more than 250 desktop computers. To find out more about Microsoft Enterprise Agreements, contact us to speak with one of our specialists. Alternatively, simply fill in the information request form above and we will be in touch.

Microsoft Enterprise Agreement and Microsoft Enterprise Agreement Subscription programs differ in the fact that for the former licenses are purchased permanently, while the licenses acquired under the subscription model only allow usage of the licensed software within the validity term of the agreement. Thus, Enterprise Agreement is a purchase of software products by installments whereas the Enterprise Agreement Subscription is more suitable for organizations that prefer leasing of the software with annual payments for the use of it.

The Server and Cloud Enrollment (SCE) is a new enrollment under the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement. The SCE provides a new option for highly committed customers that enables them to standardize broadly on one or more key Server and Cloud technologies from Microsoft.
The Server and Cloud Enrollment offers four components:

• Core Infrastructure.
• Application Platform.
• Developer Platform, and Windows Azure.

Customers can choose any of these components individually or group them as needed. When choosing any of the first three components, customers will also have access to Windows Azure at the best pricing available.

Award for Sub-Saharan Africa!

Menshen is a Kaspersky Platinum Partner and was a nominated finalist for Kaspersky's 2013 “SMB Partner of the Year” award for Sub-saharan Africa.

About Kaspersky Lab Kaspersky Lab is a global, privately-owned cybersecurity company operating in more than 200 countries and territories. The company offers a wide range of security solutions and services to large enterprises, SMBs and consumers, empowering over 400 million users and 270,000 corporate clients to protect what matters most to them.

Kaspersky Lab’s experts possess immense knowledge and experience in the detection and neutralization of all forms of malicious programs. Its Global Research and Analysis Team (GReAT) discovers and analyses some of the world’s most sophisticated cyber threats and provides leading cybersecurity intelligence and research. Kaspersky Lab’s partners in law enforcement include INTERPOL, Europol, The National High Tech Crime Unit (NHTCU) of the Netherlands’ Police Agency and The City of London Police, as well as Computer Emergency Response Teams (CERTs) worldwide.

Menshen is an Authorized Adobe Reseller. Adobe is the global leader in digital marketing and digital media solutions. Its tools and services allow our customers to create groundbreaking digital content, deploy it across media and devices, measure and optimize it over time, and achieve greater business success. Adobe helps our customers make, manage, measure, and monetize their content across every channel and screen.

WECA Solution Provider!

Menshen is a VMware Partner with the Enterprise Solution Provider Status and a nominated finalist for VMware's 2013 WECA (West, East & Central Africa) Solution Provider of the Year.

VMware radically transformed IT with technologies that make your business more agile, efficient and profitable. As a pioneer in virtualization and policy-driven automation, VMware simplifies IT complexity across the entire data center. With more than 500,000 customers worldwide, including 100% of the Fortune 100 customers, VMware is the leader for virtualization infrastructure solutions and as a VMware Enterprise Partner, you can rest assured that Menshen is the right choice to serve your organization’s virtualization needs through the unique value of VMware products and solutions offers – from the desktop to the data-center to the cloud.

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Menshen is a Symantec Registered Partner with the Advanced Small and Medium Business specialization.

Microsoft is a Veeam Silver Partner.