WISC to offer Adobe products to UW System Dept.
Posted: 2001-09-26 08:27:34 Expiration: 2001-09-26 08:27:34
UW System recently negotiated an agreement for Adobe's new volume-licensing program for departments. Adobe handling information can be found in document 766.
UW System recently negotiated a master agreement on behalf of all System
Schools for Adobe's new volume-licensing program called the CLP
(Contractual Licensing Program). This program is for departments only (not
students) and offers departments a large purchase discount and options to
purchase maintenance to provide upgrade protection for a two-year period.
The Wisconsin Integrated Software Catalog (WISC) will be serving as the
fulfillment agent for this contract and will authenticate WISC buyers
eligible to purchase, process orders, manage the product distribution, and
track licenses to meet the CLP reporting responsibilities.
The WISC/Adobe initiative is scheduled to begin the week of September 16th
and initially we will only be accepting procurement cards for payment. We
expect to be able to offer DoIT counter sales by the end of the month and
will accept requisitions and purchase orders at that time as well.
Orders will include a $20.00 per-order transaction fee. The fee will be the
same regardless of the number of licenses on an order. It will cover the
administrative cost of distributing Adobe products via the WISC site.
Product hardware/software specifications, product overviews, Adobe
licensing definitions, ordering instructions, and pricing will be available
on WISC.
The campus help desks currently supporting Adobe products will continue
their traditional support models. For those campuses not supporting Adobe
products, Adobe offers a searchable knowledgebase, technical guides, user
forums, and "Adobe Support Exchange" at their "Customer First Support" web
page at http://www.adobe.com/support/main.html.
We will start selling Adobe products some time after September 16, 2001 -
continue to check your WISC departmental products page. You can shop online
24 hours a day. For complete details on eligibility and ordering
procedures, see the WISC site at http://wiscinfo.doit.wisc.edu/wisc.
-- Judy Brickner