Telework boom expanded an existing headache: keeping track of software licenses

FedScoop: Federal IT officials are starting to consider another side effect of the demand for near-universal telework: the need for better inventorying of their software licenses, especially now that agencies have bought more mobile devices and made other changes to their networks.

Consider the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which has about 35,000 unique software applications across agency devices, with an average of only two installations each, according to Tim McCrosson, associate chief information officer for the department’s Client Experience Center.

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