What is SAM?
Software Asset Management is about knowing exactly what software your business owns, owning only the software your business needs and actively managing how and when new purchases are made to ensure that your organisation remains in this position of knowledge.
Business Risks without SAM...
- Corporate best practices assigns responsibilty/liability to directors of companies to ensure good governance.
- Legal risks of non-compliancy enforced by BSA and software vendors.
- Potential risk of negative exposure, damage to the public image and financial risk of penalties.
- Lack of control regarding costs, procurement and financial reporting.
- No control over software deployment and upgrades.
- An environment with diverse, older versions and editions of software exposes your organisation to viruses and potential data loss.
Business Benefits of implementing a SAM Solution
- Standard policies and procedures will ensure control of all the disciplines of SAM.
- Better negotiating positions with vendors, cost saving discounts and price points.
- Provides information to make the best licensing decisions i.e. costs based on per user or per device.
- Maximises the use of software assets to ensure that assets perform optimally.
- Minimises the overall cost of software assets.
- Ensuring compliancy with legal issues.
- More accurate software valuation, depreciation and budgeting, plus tax savings.
- Controlling IT expenditure on software & upgrades by assisting in determining software requirements and usage.
- Good IT Corporate Governance.
- Addresses Risk Management, Data Protection and Security Risks.
- Reduced support costs.
- Increased efficiency of the workforce & faster, smoother mergers and acquisitions.
How SYNC Pro & Licence Manager assists with SAM
- Provides information to implement policies and procedures.
- Ensures adherence to policies and procedures implemented and provides information to take corrective action.
- Provides a basis for a controlled, centralised procurement of software licences.
- Provides a detailed software inventory and register,
- Ongoing IT audit of hardware and software.
- Provides financial information for software valuation, depreciation and replacement costs.
- Ensures software licensing compliancy.
- Assists with software deployment and patch management.
- Assists with capacity management and configuration management.
- Reduces financial and organisation risk.
- Ensures good IT corporate governance.
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