Optimise your IT estate and ensure best practice Software Asset Management, its time to take a closer look at your software risk and minimise your costs.
At any one time, around a third of British companies are either under- or over-licensed.
In today’s hectic business environment, where change is the only constant, many organisations are now struggling to keep track of their IT Assets. No sooner have they deployed the latest patch or upgraded to a new version of ‘must have’ software existing records are already out-of-date. How is the IT manager ever going to know if someone internally has just downloaded a piece of non- compliant software?
Many organisations either misunderstand their Software Asset Management (SAM) and licence compliance position or are in complete denial of it. Software management might seem like a routine task, but there can be serious consequences for Companies and their Directors if they get it wrong. The costs of non-compliance and poor SAM can run to hundreds of thousands of pounds and ultimately criminal penalties for Executive Management. If you are struggling to get your compliance situation under control, SAM Practice can help you overcome your software management challenges and optimise your IT environment.
The SAM Practice SAM programme involves dealing with all historic BASELINE licensing issues, understanding and addressing risks to OPTIMISE your licences, and the ongoing MANAGEMENT of changes to maintain an Effective Licence Position.
Software asset and licence management impacts organisations in different ways. We therefore break our services down so they are easy to understand, purchase and deliver and adhere to these three guiding principles. In addition, we provide outsourced managed services - delivering comprehensive reports and advice to clients,whilst removing all the pressures a
ssociated with managing software in-house. We provide a review of systems to identify the reasons behind any issues – helping our customers move from an unstructured and uncontrolled position to proactively being in control of all risks and costs surrounding software compliance.Contact us or call us on 0845 634 5162 to speak with one of our consultants to discuss how our Licence Services can help your organisation’.
“Over a third of software installed in 2006 was counterfeit and global software piracy is costing $40 billion a year.”
(BSA)
From helping you to fully understand your current installed base combined with our extensive licensing experience SAM Practice helps you lower costs to your business as well as ensuring ongoing compliance. Take a look at some of our Resource schedules to help understand the value we can bring to you business.
“Good Software Asset Management not only helps companies to understand their risk exposure, but it can also reduce the direct costs of software and other related assets. It will ensure better cost control and deliver significant competitive advantage. Enabling quality decisions to be made quickly, so you can deploy new systems and functionality effectively - keeping your business one step ahead of the competition.”
Jason Allaway, CEO, SAM Practice
