Introduction

An Enterprise Agreement (EA) is a form of volume licensing contract that provides midsize and large organizations the ability to license almost any Microsoft business-related offering. With an EA, an organization can license all its users or PCs for Microsoft’s most important online services and software at a predictable annual cost, simplifying budgeting, procurement, and compliance. Furthermore, EAs typically offer the best unit pricing, including significant discounts on server software, and the terms & conditions are somewhat flexible (especially important if an organization is large or regulated).

Note that organizational size requirements for initiating or renewal EAs is steadily increasing (see “Moving from an EA to a Microsoft Customer Agreement” below for details).

Enterprise Agreement Legal Documents

Microsoft uses multiple interlocking documents to codify the complete set of terms and conditions governing an Enterprise Agreement contract.

The contract documents and how they interrelate to form what is commonly thought of as an “Enterprise Agreement contract”