E-commerce is a transactional relationship where the customer is purchasing goods or services through a web site. As a result of the final transaction, the customer receives a physical product (for example, buying a book online), information (for example, a bank statement), or a service (for example, package delivery). The software involved is just a mechanism to enable the acquisition of the good or service.
A software service is when the customer is receiving access to a software application that supports its business operations. For example: web site, e-mail services, content delivery services, and customer relationship services.
The Service Provider License Agreement (SPLA) program, designed by Microsoft enables all service providers and ISVs to license Microsoft products on a monthly basis to provide services and hosted applications to their end customers. The end users can use the software as a service without acquiring software license directly with Microsoft.
SPLA is the only Microsoft licensing program that provides 3rd party license use rights to hosting and software service providers.
All Microsoft products listed in the SPUR (Service Provider Use Rights) document comes under SPLA. Service Provider Use Rights (SPUR) and summary of changes to the SPUR (438 KB - .doc file)
Users wishing to enroll in the SPLA agreement need to meet one of the following two eligibility requirements:
You payment is based on actual usage for the prior month; additional Subscriber Access License (SAL) or PL can be acquired as your usage grows.
As a Microsoft certified SPLA reseller, Kryptos help you in acquiring SPLA easily and acts on your behalf for administration of these licenses and reporting them to Microsoft. Our accounts team handles monthly usage orders and periodic media orders.