Amounts expended for purchased software or licenses of commercially available software, including upgrades and/or maintenance agreements. Software licensing includes, but is not limited to, the right to use the software, support for the software, and upgrades.
Also includes amounts expended for hardware and software subscription-based computing services where Western does not own or possess an asset, but instead has an agreement to rent or lease a vendor’s product or service for a period of time. This includes, but is not limited to, cloud based services such as Software as a Service (SaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), and Platform as a Service (PaaS).