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SPLA Benefits for Service Providers



Payment of licence costs according to actual subscriptions

SPLA involves no joining costs - You only pay for the licence subscriptions of your end customers monthly.

Free Upgrades (SA included in SPLA price)
SPLA includes a software assurance for the actual software versions. Therefore, there are no additional costs for upgrades and your costs will be reduced in the long-term.

Easy and efficient reporting
ATRIA licensing team will take care of the reporting of the software that you use. All you have to do is to focus and concentrate on growing your business.

Competitive, flexible pricing and recurring monthly revenue
Through SPLA's "pay as you use" feature, you are able to offer flexible and efficient service offerings to your customers.

Competent Support
Our team will support you through consultation and service in each phase of introducing and using SPLA. Also, we offer consulting services for correct and efficient licensing for different hosting scenarios, compliance, complex solutions and their implementation. If needed, on-site or video conference training on SPLA can be arranged.

Transparency of customer profitability
Simple and fast determination of your customers' profitability. By recording the monthly licence payments, you are able to maintain an overview of your licence operation's profitability. It enables you to quickly and simple determine how profitable your customers are.

Up-to-date with First Distribution
First Distribution provides you with current pricing and product lists, changes in licensing, editions and information on promotions and legal guidance such as Service Provider Use Rights (SPUR) and other relevant news.

Academic license available for your Education Customers
Are your customers qualified "Education Customers", for example, schools or universities? If so, you will be able to take advantage of the very favourable academic pricing.

Free access and download to Microsoft's wide range of products
Able to access the wide Microsoft product range and download for internal testing and evaluation without paying for up to 90 days.