What is the Microsft SPLA program?

Using the Services Provider License Agreement (SPLA), service providers and independent software vendors (ISVs) can license Microsoft products on a monthly basis, during a three-year agreement term, to host software services and applications to their customers.

While other Microsoft Volume Licensing programs, such as the Microsoft Enterprise Agreement (EA), Microsoft Select Plus, and Microsoft Open programs (Open License and Open Value) do not allow hosting of Microsoft products, SPLA provides the license rights to host specific Microsoft software.

What Is a Service Provider?

Service providers offer a variety of services to customers such as access to third-party software, business transaction services, and line-of-business (LOB) applications. Service providers offer customers direct or indirect access to Microsoft server licensed products ("products") or software services that interact with Microsoft products.

Specifically, you are a service provider if you provide the following services to your customers:

 Your organization provides your customers with direct or indirect access to Microsoft products such as hosted websites or LOB applications through Microsoft server products.

 Your organization offers your customers software services that interact with Microsoft products. In this scenario, you, not your customer, are the licensee.

 Your organization facilitates your customer's business, including business transactions with third parties, through software services that interact with Microsoft products.

 Your organization provides your customers with access to and use of any application, Microsoft or otherwise, and the application is running on a server and interacts with a Microsoft product on that server.

Software Services

Software services are services that you provide to your customers that make products available and that display, run, access, or otherwise interact with Microsoft products. You provide these services from one or more data centers through the Internet, a telephony network, or a private network on a rental, subscription, or services basis, whether or not the service provider receives a fee. The SPLA makes offering software services easier because you are the licensee, not the customer.

Business models and scenarios that the SPLA may be appropriate include the following:

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