In partnership with Microsoft and the Softline Group, a major project to provide affordable content to thousands of educational institutions in CEE through a single unified procurement portal.

Procurement of digital content and software for organizations and educational institutions has been particularly difficult with the advent of the digital age: so many types of software and content licenses, all requisitioned through different vendors and suppliers, all with different contracts and conditions, all paper-based.

In this project: Softline is #1 software distributor in CEE, not just for Microsoft products, but also for many other software vendors (ABBYY, Adobe, Corel, Kaspersky, etc). Softline creates and manages a unified procurement portal, accessible to thousands of educational institutions in CEE, making it simple to acquire software product licenses and manage them through a single point of entry. Aggregion provides a seamless licensing backbone between the Microsoft CSP (Cloud Solution Provider) billing system, Softline and the procurement portal, and any of Softline’s partner vendors. This project is ongoing since September 2017.

Goals

Problem

Results

  • A reach of over 40.000 schools, universities, and libraries in CEE; a single software acquisition and licensing portal
  • Educational institutions can use a variety of models: buy, rent, subscription, etc.; tracking usage and expenses; a built-in billing module
  • Software vendors retain complete control and visibility of all and each their licenses; live reporting to any level of detail
  • Aggregion is one of few companies in the world approved for direct integration with Microsoft CSP billing system
  • Teachers may purchase content in bulk (for a class) and then re-distribute to students using C2C capability
  • Proof of concept test of Aggregion’s ‘snowball effect’ client acquisition strategy: partners of Softline become clients of Aggregion, creating continuous synergy
  • Aggregion is becoming the universal technology partner of Softline in the area of software licensing (currently 1.5% of Softline’s licensing revenue is processed through Aggregion)

Solution