Software Asset Management
Simply put, Software Asset Management ("SAM") is a business process that can help you reduce your licensing costs and optimize your software assets. The business benefits of Software Asset Management are:
- Reduce software licensing costs - organize your software licenses and only purchase/renew licenses for software that is used. Track all your license rights, such as upgrade, downgrade and transfer rights to optimize the way you account for and use your software assets.
- Reduce help desk costs - on average, 50% of the time spend troubleshooting computer issues is spent on obtaining the computer configuration, so having an accurate software inventory will translate to reduction in help desk costs.
- Minimize unauthorized software usage, security risks - Software Asset Management empowers you to use the right software for you and enforce a software usage policy across your organization. Ensuring that your employees are using only authorized software helps increase productivity and avoid security risks.
- Reduce business and legal risk due to not meeting regulatory requirements, or not complying with software vendor license agreements. Software license compliance becomes easy with an effective Software Asset Management program in place.
- Better negotiation capabilities with your software vendors and resellers - knowing exactly what you have and what you need, as well as the number of licenses you need and your current license rights puts you in control in your next license negotiation.
- Software Asset Management is about taking control - control of your assets, control of your risks, and control of your infrastructure.
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