Traditional one-time purchase licenses, once the standard for software acquisition, have increasingly given way to subscription-based models. This transformation affects everyone from individual ...

First, subscription-based models create shared incentives between ... However, the revenue generated from the tech—whether it’s a software system, network, or platform—is often insufficient ...

Old wine in a new bottle: That’s the reaction from analysts to a new subscription-based software pricing scheme announced today by Computer Associates International Inc. Under the new approach ...

Smaller software companies do better with subscription pricing, while consumption-based models perform better at larger scale. There’s no perfect answer, in other words, but the data should help ...

In many ways, all of this is wonderful. The subscription-based software on smart appliances brings many conveniences. Hewlett-Packard’s smart printers, for example, if hooked on to an Instant ...

Pasadena-based Tetra Tech adds a subscription software package that details risk maps based on climate change-enhanced disasters. The strategy has generally served Tetra Tech well: the company ...

The software industry has undergone a significant shift in its business model over the past decade. Traditional one-time purchase licenses, once the standard for software acquisition, have ...