The governance, control and management of an organization's assets, in this case the assets used to hold and distribute software, i.e. laptops and peripherals, hardware, etc.
including all costs, risks and performance attributes).
value from the things that a group or entity is responsible for, over their whole life cycles. It may apply both to tangible assets and to intangible assets.
Software Licensing
Licensing. Many suppliers are, often quite rightly, worried about their revenue. Their product is not 3-diemsional, it does not take materials and physical warehousing per se, it is easy to copy. Software companies have no other way of making money and are therefore very protective of their products.