As an IBM-designated Authorized Reseller, HP provides a global sales channel for IBM, Lotus, and Tivoli volume software licensing programs. HP Software Licensing & Management Solutions can help you select the program that best suits your business environment.
Passport Advantage and Passport Advantage Express are simple, comprehensive IBM programs that deliver software license acquisition and maintenance options via a single common set of agreements, processes, and tools. Passport Advantage meets the needs of larger enterprises. Passport Advantage Express meets the needs of medium-sized businesses and enterprises seeking department-specific solutions.
Both programs can help organizations leverage existing assets and improve system performance and employee productivity by making it easy to:
- Acquire new IBM software licenses
- Renew IBM Software Maintenance and Fixed Term licenses
- Buy and renew technical support for Selected Open Source and other non-warranted applications
Passport Advantage
Passport Advantage is IBM's comprehensive software licensing and software maintenance (product upgrades and technical support) program. Designed for larger enterprises that may have multiple sites, it gives you more opportunities to obtain better pricing for your volume purchases over time. Pricing is based on the size of individual transactions — including purchases from select independent software vendors.
Software maintenance is included with each license you purchase. This provides you with both product upgrades and technical support, and helps simplify software deployments. You receive complete upgrade and cross-platform migration coverage for most commercially available IBM-distributed software — Lotus, WebSphere, Tivoli, DB2 Information Management, and Rational Software.
Passport Advantage Express
Passport Advantage Express is designed for smaller, single-site businesses or organizations within larger companies. It combines the full Passport Advantage product list with the simplicity of transaction-based acquisition. Passport Advantage Express lets you obtain the product licenses you need when you need them — without having to enter into a relationship agreement. Each transaction is subject to the terms and conditions effective at the time. There are no points and no aggregating — just a single price level. And with each new license acquisition, you receive renewable software maintenance (see description above). |
Printable version
