Software Asset Management
Most businesses today could not say which employees are using which software or how many licenses have been acquired from which manufacturers. Software acquisition is often not administered centrally and hardly anyone wants to deal with the multiplicity of license conditions which are increasingly difficult to comprehend. This drives costs upwards. It is not unusual that expensive maintenance contracts for long unused software applications continue in force and although in one department enough licenses await employment, another department acquires new licenses for its purposes.
If you recognise this problem, you would profit from our Software Asset Management solution. We apply the four clip! disciplines Change, Legal, IT and Process to manage both the legal and the technical aspects of software administration. This is not just a once-off audit taking stock of the software employed, but a continuous record and attribution of all licenses. Unused licenses are transferred in this process to a license pool from which they can be taken and reactivated if needed. All potential savings are thus exploited and unwelcome legal consequences of overuse avoided. And since Software Asset Management is not a static undertaking, we implement with your CIO continuous license management which informs you regularly and automatically on the current state of software use in your business.
