SPLA License (Service Provider License Agreement)
Licensing on Demand, tailored to your needs.
Month-to-month licensing program designed to provide software services and hosted applications to end customers.
The Microsoft Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA) is a licensing program that provides a hosting offer to service providers and ISVs to lease or rent licenses of Microsoft products on a monthly basis, and to provide hosting services and applications to the end customer.
With LOL Cloud help, Microsoft allows service providers to offer hosting, outsourcing and other services, avoiding up-front costs, licenses budget planning and paying only for what you use.
How SPLA works?
If you require 2 licenses this month, you pay two licenses, but if next month you use 30, then you will pay 30 and then you can go back and pay only the 2 initial licenses or the amount you need. There are no minimum or maximum quotas.
With SPLA, Microsoft is investing in the success of their channels and treating the software as a service "pay-for-what-you-use" allows them to increase their flexibility, accelerate profitability and establish a recurring revenue model to expand business. In addition, this program makes software costs transparent to end users, who may also treat the software as operating costs rather than capital.
SPLA provides usage rights to third party service providers who are the owners of these Microsoft licenses, so that end customers receiving services deployed on Microsoft software products do not need to get their own licenses. End customers receive the right to directly or indirectly interact with functionalities of Microsoft software through SPLA licensing service provider.
Some SPLA Products
- Windows Server
- Microsoft Exchange
- Sharepoint
- Dynamics CRM
- SQL Server
- Office
View Microsoft SPLA products
SPLA Benefits
Acces
- Almost all Microsoft products are included
- Easy download of media
- End user installations
- Evaluation of products internally for 90 days
- Latest product versions
Flexibility
- No up-front costs (licenses)
- No sales targets
- Pay as you go by month
- Shared servers
- Low risk
Opportunity
- Annual price protection
- Global reach
- Pc rentals
- Free demos, tests and evaluations. Up to 50 end users
- Free 60 days trial for end users
Frequently Asked Questions
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What do I have to do to become a SPLA Partner?
- Register at the Microsoft Partner Program. You can register for free directly from Microsoft's site if you do not have an ID number (https://partner.microsoft.com/argentina).
- Comply with Service Provider User Rights, so you know the correct way of licensing products.
- Provide software services to your end customers.
- You must send monthly license usage reports between the first and the fifth of each month through our web tool.
- Fill in the Microsoft SPLA agreement to be approved by Microsoft Corporation in the United States.
SPLA enables an organization to license Microsoft products and services to its customers
It is not required to purchase a minimum or maximum number of licenses to become a Microsoft SPLA partner, there is not a sales target, and you do not need to be a Gold or Certified Microsoft member, you only need to be Registered, thereby it is free to sign the contract (which lasts three years, with possibility to cancel early without penalties or sanctions).
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How long dows the agreement approval take?
Within two weeks the contract must be approved by Microsoft Corp.
Microsoft and LOL Cloud will be sending a welcome email with details of your new SPLA agreement. Even the physical contract signed and approved will be sent directly by Microsoft. LOL Cloud will send the signed Subcontract.
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How do I pay the licenses?
You can pay locally in Argentina, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Peru, Uruguay, Paraguay, Mexico, Ecuador, United States.
Payments can be made by bank transfer, check or cash. Please ask your Account Executive.
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How do I access the Microsoft Volume Licensing Service Center? / How do I find information about their licenses, download Microsoft software and manage the benefits and Volume Licensing subscriptions?
- Go to https://www.microsoft.com/licensing/servicecenter/?lc=11274 .
- Register.
- Get Access to the information.
- Recommendation: If you have a conflict between the DL manager and settings of IE, meaning, if you get a buffer or similar when there are several large and simultaneous downloads, you should clear IE cache and then increase the reserved space for that cache to fix it.
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How do I access the Microsoft Service Provider Use Rights – SPUR
