License Compliance made easy

Achieving software license compliance is a challenging task in today's ever evolving business environment, yet organizations must be in a position to control the business risks associated with failing to comply with license terms and risks derived from using unauthorized software. You should know that you can be subject, at any time, to a software provider audit request.

SAManage helps your take control over your software license management, and align it with your business governance and control needs. Ensuring compliance and administrating IT governance is not a one-time event, rather its an ongoing IT process that needs to be aligned with your overall business governance goals.

Our on-demand IT Asset Management service was designed to help you easily meet license compliance requirements at any time, and enforce a software usage policy that would govern the software installed and used by your employees. Its all about better IT governance and risk management.

License compliance challenges

1. New software licenses are purchased from multiple sources (OEM, retail, reseller) - hard to keep track.
2. New computers are provisioned and software gets deployed - hard to keep track.
3. Software license agreement allows the manufacturer to request a software license audit - at any time.
4. You have to meet regulatory requirements for auditing IT usage.
5. You have to minimize business risk and exposure as a result of using unauthorized software.

Software license compliance benefits

1. Mitigate business risk associated with failing to comply with license agreements.
2. Ensuring your organization complies with multiple types of software license agreements, at any time.
3. a license repository creates opportunities for cost improvement and negotiation leverage.
4. Easily create audit reports to meet your regulatory requirements.
5. Document good license compliance standing.
6. Ensures your employees are only using authorized software and enforce a software usage policy.