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Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES)
Microsoft Select Plus for Academic (k12 & higher education )
Student Select Plus
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Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES)
Enrollment for Education Solutions (EES) is an easy, cost-effective licensing offer that provides academic institutions with assured coverage for desktop platform products with one annual employee count, the flexibility to add products in any quantity and simplified asset management—all under a single, evergreen subscription agreement.
In today’s complex education IT environments, the EES provides primary, secondary, and higher education institutions:
- An affordable volume based price and the rights to the latest Microsoft Enterprise software products, including: Microsoft Office Professional Plus 2010, Windows® 7 Enterprise, Microsoft Core Client Access License (CAL) Suite, and Microsoft Enterprise Client Access License (ECAL) Suite.
- The simplicity of counting FTE employees just once per year.
- Software Assurance; a powerful combination of benefits that include new version rights, the Home Use Program (HUP), and many other advantages, including tools, and training resources.
- A broad selection of additional Microsoft software products that may be licensed in any quantity.
- Live@edu, which provides email, calendars, document sharing, instant messaging, video chat, and mobile email accessible through many popular web browsers.
- Predictable annual payments with a one-year or three-year term option.
EES Benefits
EES provides participating institutions the benefits of:
- Easy Compliance: Through the simplicity and predictability of counting FTE employees just once per year you can be confident you are fully covered for the desktop platform products you’ve selected regardless of yearly fluctuations in employees or devices.
- Customized Solutions:Easily add additional products either organization-wide, department-wide, or for individual licenses at any time during your subscription term so you can deliver the right mix of technology and services to your faculty, staff, and students.
- A broad selection of Microsoft software products, such as Microsoft Office Visio® drawing and diagramming software, Microsoft Office Project, Business Productivity Online Suite (BPOS), the Windows Server® operating system, and Microsoft Exchange Server are available as Additional Products through EES.
- Student Licensing options are also available and provide a convenient and cost-effective way for you to license software and services for your students so they may collaborate easily and have access to the software they need.
- Simplified Asset Management: Self-service tools such as the Volume Licensing Service Center enable you to easily track and manage your software assets and Software Assurance benefits from one convenient, online location.
- Low Administration: Subscription licensing eliminates the need to track licenses for the selected desktop platform products on every PC which enables your IT staff to be more productive as they no longer have to track multiple licenses across the institution.
- Lower Total Cost of Ownership: Realize the maximum value from your licensing investment with included benefits such as access to current technology, Work at Home Rights for faculty and staff, product evaluation rights, Software Assurance for Microsoft Volume Licensing and Microsoft Live@edu
Go to the EES page for full information!
Microsoft Select Plus for Academic
For K12 & Higher Education
Select Plus for Academic offers a non-expiring agreement, the flexibility to acquire licenses as needed, a single customer ID to streamline account management across multiple affiliates, and the ability to add value with a full 36 months of Software Assurance
Features & Benefits
- Simplified purchasing. A single, perpetual agreement for transactional purchases provides more flexibility and eliminates the need to renegotiate and renew agreements every three years.
- Improved management. Select Plus for Academic agreements are associated to a single Customer ID, enabling asset reporting under a single, master agreement for all affiliates. Improved self-service, online tools give customers and partners better management capabilities.
- Savings. Special academic pricing level applies to software license purchases across the entire customer organization, including affiliate locations such as individual sites, departments, or members of an educational consortium or other aggregate group.
- More value from Software Assurance. When you add Software Assurance—the comprehensive maintenance program from Microsoft—to your license purchases, you receive a full 36 months of benefits, regardless of purchase timing.
- Software AssuranceSoftware Assurance is a simple way to keep current with Microsoft products. Under the Software Assurance program, you acquire the right to install any new release of covered products during your coverage term. (With Select Plus for Academic, you get a full 36 months of coverage, regardless of when you purchase Software Assurance.) Based on whether you acquire Software Assurance for individual licenses or for an entire pool of products (applications, systems, or servers) you may also qualify for additional benefits, such as support resources, tools, and E-Learning courses.
Student Select Plus
K-12 and higher education customers can pass on the discounts of their Select Plus agreement to their students by participating in the Student Select program. Your institution must be currently enrolled in a Select or Select Plus Agreement to participate. If you are not currently enrolled please contact us to get enrolled.
Orders for Student Select are distributed via download on a customized ScholarBuys Vstore at VarsityBuys.com. Optionally, licenses and corresponding individual media are placed with ScholarBuys in bulk to distribute on your campus or bookstore.
ScholarBuys provides marketing material to promote this program on Campus. Materials include flyers, posters, email copy, social media content and much more.
