| Simply put, Software Asset Management 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: |
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1. Reduce software licensing costs - 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. |
Can you validate your licensing situation? at any time? Are you over or under licensed? |
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2. Reduce help desk costs - on average, 50% of the time spend troubleshooting computer issues is spent on obtaining the computer configuration |
Do you have the updated configuration of your IT assets? |
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| 3. Minimize unauthorized software usage, security risks - SAM empowers you to use the right software for you. Ensuring that your employees are using only authorized software helps increase productivity and avoid security risks. |
Are your employees installing illegal software? games? |
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| 4. Reduce business and legal risk due to not meeting regulatory requirements, or not complying with software vendor license agreements. |
Do you have a legal exposure? are you managing that risk? |
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| 5. Better negotiation capabilities with your software vendors - 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. |
Are you ready for your next license renewal negotiations? |
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| SAM is about taking control - control of your assets, control of your risks, and control of your infrastructure. Take control today. |
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According to ITIL: Software Asset Management ("SAM") is all of the infrastructure and processes necessary for the effective management, control, and protection of software assets within the organization, throughout all stages of their life cycle. |
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