Advantages of having SPLA over Traditional Volume Licensing
Definition wise difference between SPLA and Traditional VL- Definition of SPLA- “ SPLA is a Service Provider License agreement that allows an organization to license Microsoft products and use them to provide software services to the customer.” In this, all the services that are required by customers must be licensed including backend SQL database. Definition of Volume Licensing - “Volume Licensing is a service offered by Microsoft , is for organizations that require multiple licenses, but not the software media, packaging and documentation supplied with the full packaged product (FPP).” SPLA vs Traditional VL l First and foremost SPLA is used to provide services to other customers and other external users but Volume licensing is only used for internal use. l SPLA can be installed in a data center managed by the service provider and can be accessed remotely but VL can only be installed on-premise or on dedicated machines with an outsourcer. l In SPLA service provid...