The Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) is a license program designed for Software Services Providers to enable their organization to license Microsoft Software products, and to use these products to provide software services to their customers.
Software services are services they provide to their customers that make available licensed products and that display, run, access, or otherwise interact with these licensed products. One or more data centers may provide these services through the Internet, a telephony network, or a private network on a rental or on a subscription or services basis. In addition, the services may be provided whether or not the services provider receives a fee. Software services exclude any services that involve installing a Microsoft licensed product directly on any device to permit a customer to interact with the Microsoft licensed product.
Some examples of Software services providers include Web Hosters, application services providers, messaging and/or collaboration services providers, platform infrastructure providers, business process outsourcers, streaming media Service Providers and ISVs with hosted applications running on Microsoft technologies.
The SPLA license provides 3rd party commercial use rights to Service Providers, who will be the holder of these Microsoft licenses and provide the software service. The end customers receiving the software service, are not required to obtain their own Microsoft licenses. End customers receive the right to interact with functionalities of Microsoft software through the Service Provider’s SPLA licenses. Service Providers cannot use FPP, Open, Select or EA licenses purchased in their name to provide software services.
Service Providers obtain the Microsoft Dynamics CRM Service Provider edition to obtain the software necessary to provide software services to their Customers. This edition offers the functionality and multi-tenancy capabilities of Microsoft Dynamics CRM Enterprise Server.
Simple Licensing Model
The SPLA licensing program provides user access to software services via a Subscriber Access License (SAL). When using the SAL, there is no need for a separate server license.
Subscriber Access License (SAL)
In the SAL model, a SAL is required for each unique named individual who is authorized to use the Microsoft Dynamics CRM software in any given month. Benefits of the Per Subscriber model include:
· Subscribers can use any device to access instances of the server software
· Service providers can "scale out" by deploying as many servers as they need
· Service providers have minimal start-up costs since they only pay based upon the number of subscribers they have each month.
Microsoft Dynamics CRM Service Provider offers the following Subscriber Access License:
· Microsoft Dynamics CRM SAL
NEW! The Microsoft Dynamics CRM SAL now enables service providers to offer external user access to their hosted solutions. This new capability offers functionality that can be compared to the External Connector capability offered in On-Premise Microsoft Dynamics CRM.
For more information on Microsoft Dynamics CRM 4.0 Use Rights under SPLA: http://www.microsoftvolumelicensing.com/userights/DocumentSearch.aspx?Mode=3&DocumentTypeId=2
