Enterprise Agreement
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- Kind
- Enterprise agreement
- Term
- Minimum three-year period (EA page).
- Aliases
- EA
- Definition
- The Microsoft Enterprise Agreement offers the best value to organizations with 500 or more users or devices that want a manageable volume licensing program that gives them the flexibility to buy cloud services and software licenses under one agreement. The Enterprise Agreement is designed for organizations that want to license software and cloud services for a minimum three-year period.
- Commercial rules
- EA page prints built-in savings ranging from 15 percent to 45 percent and the option to make three annual payments instead of one up-front payment. “The Enterprise Agreement includes a subscription option that lowers initial licensing costs because you subscribe to the rights to use Microsoft products and services instead of owning them. The subscription option also enables you to increase or decrease subscription counts on an annual basis.” Software Assurance is included. Enrollments named: Enterprise Enrollment; Server and Cloud Enrollment. True-up as named (no formula printed): “During the term of your Enterprise Agreement, you can add and adjust users, devices, products, and services at any time without having to place individual purchase orders and account for changes through the annual process.”
- Applies to
- Microsoft Volume Licensing products as named: cloud services and on-premises software under one agreement (EA page).