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Software Assurance benefits help you take full advantage of your investments in IT. A comprehensive program that includes a unique set of technologies, services, and rights to help deploy, manage, and use Microsoft products efficiently, Software Assurance helps keep your business up to date and ready to respond quickly to change and opportunity.

Software Assurance helps your organization spend less and do more. Planning consultants are available to provide expert advice and prepare you to deploy an IT infrastructure that best suits your needs. With New Version Rights you can upgrade to the most recent product version for no additional cost. Your employees can purchase low-cost downloads of Office to use at home, and your organization gets flexible licensing rights and use options to best support office and mobile workers on a broad range of devices. To help ready staff and build IT skills, for no additional cost your technical staff gets classroom training.

Have a problem or a concern? 24x7 support, by web or phone, gets you answers when you need them. You also get help with developing and applying organization-wide policies to help keep software configurations up to date, secure, and configured to best support your IT environment. This and additional disaster-recovery and fail-over benefits help maintain a stable, secure, and available infrastructure.

Software Assurance helps you prepare to move selected functions off-premises with innovative server licensing opportunities. License Mobility through Software Assurance helps you benefit from lower-cost off-premises deployments that may be easier to scale and less trouble to manage, while at the same time retaining the value of your investment in on-premises server licenses. You get to retain your license investments and reduce your outsourcing costs by assigning those licenses to your hosting partner.