NI Volume License Program Overview

The National Instruments Volume License Program is available for small groups, sites, or entire organizations with five or more licenses of an application software package. Program participation includes discounts on software purchases and training courses, automatic software upgrades, access to an elevated level of technical support, and flexibility in software budgeting and purchasing.

Why Join the Volume License Program?

The NI Volume License Program helps you maximize your software investment by reducing your total cost of ownership, helping you build a user community within your organization, and simplifying your software budgeting and purchasing. Your company and you can benefit from the NI Volume License Program no matter your size or your logistical challenges. To be a part of the program, contact your local National Instruments representative, who can assist you in determining if the Volume License Program is right for you.

Reduce the Total Cost of Ownership

When different teams within the same organization purchase software licenses one at a time, maintaining multiple separate licenses for the same products is costly. Software versions and maintenance are difficult to track, and you must repeat your purchasing process for each individual new copy and each individual upgrade. Deployment of each new copy at separate times is inefficient for most IT departments. Plus, if your organization tracks each license individually to ensure compliance with organizational or federal rules, your costs increase.

By grouping your organization's software under the Volume License Program, you ensure that your organization gets the most out of your software investment. Your organization receives discounts on software purchases; in addition, every member of the program receives software maintenance. The software is managed and distributed from a central location, with tools to help track software usage and compliance.

• Volume discounts on software purchases - make it easier for your organization to provide its engineers with all the tools they need
• Software maintenance benefits
  • Automatic software upgrades - assurance that your users always have the latest software at their fingertips
  • Elevated Level of Technical Support - direct one-on-one access to more than 300 National Instruments applications engineers via phone and e-mail
  • Free, unlimited on-demand online training

Build a User Community

Having a core group of individuals informed about a product or technology ensures competency within your organization. This center of knowledge makes your company more efficient because employees can support and assist each other in application development. The Volume License Program more formally groups your users together, which facilitates community-building activities such as product training and the formation of user groups.

Simplify Software Budgeting and Purchasing

Software asset management is important in both large and small organizations. When you understand how and where your company's software is being used, you are able to make better long-term purchasing decisions. As part of the Volume License Program, you receive NI Volume License Manager (VLM), a software tool for tracking and managing your software licenses. The program also simplifies software purchasing - both new software purchases and maintenance renewals.

• NI Volume License Manager - tool for software asset management
  • Distribute software over your internal network
  • Generate reports for usage compliance
  • Obtain visibility into software usage to help budget planning
  • Leverage FLEXlm technology

• Flexible software purchasing and maintenance renewals
  • Add new licenses when you need them with two purchasing options - either when new licenses are added or at the end of the maintenance period
  • Renew all software maintenance at the same time
  • Use a single, annual purchase order for all NI software purchases

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