You've already done a lot of work: creating your requirements definition, identifying and qualifying prospective vendors, evaluating their proposals, selecting a winner and doing your due diligence, negotiating refinements to their proposal. But before you sign the vendor's form agreement, be sure and measure it against this list of common shortcomings that can, if not corrected, leave your expectations unfulfilled.
Software Police Offer Rewards to Informants
Both of the two predominant software industry trade associations, the Software & Information Industry Association (SIIA) and the Business Software Alliance (BSA), offer rewards to an employee-informant who reports software piracy at his/her company (or, as often as not, his/her former company). The offer of what amounts to a bounty for tips on corporate piracy has added impetus to enforcement efforts that were already vigorous.
