Getting beyond compliance and into effective SAM

Presented by Alex Ashley-Roberts

1. Three key obstacles in the way of effective SAM

2. Focusing on what makes the biggest difference

3. About License Dashboard4. Q&A

Webinar Agenda

Part 1 Three key obstacles in the way of effective SAM

1. Implementation 2. Transactional Tasks 3. Complexity

1. Implementation

What’s slowing things down?

⁻ Installation of technology and supporting software

⁻ Staff training ⁻ Technology and process

roll-out

THE AVERAGE IN-HOUSE IMPLEMENTATION TAKES

6 MONTHSTHAT’S A LOT OF TIME AWAY FROM THE BUSINESS

2. Transactional Tasks

- Combining and normalizing inventory data from multiple sources- Consolidating and identifying an organization’s true license entitlement- Piecing together historic software purchase information- Creating and managing a centralized view of an organization’s

maintenance renewals- Reconciling an organization’s software installs and usage against their

entitlement- Working out upgrades, downgrades and technology guarantees- Managing the compliance of an organization’s virtual environment- Creating detailed management reports, including an organization’s ELP- Managing an in-house SAM system

⁻ Software dictionary updates⁻ System upgrades⁻ License Modelling

Definition

Impact2. Transactional Tasks

The results

⁻ 37% of SAM Managers spend the majority of their time on license reconciliation

⁻ 23% spend most of their time compiling consumption data

⁻ 13% said they spend most of their time on auditing license agreements

Reconciling usage against entitlement

Majority of time spent on one area - Compiling install and usage data- Auditing license agreements - Handling vendor audits- Responding to ad-hoc requests

Other transactional tasks

73%OF SAM MANAGERS SPEND THE MAJORITY OF THEIR WEEK ON TRANSACTIONAL LICENSE MANAGEMENT TASKS

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….and complexity slows teams down!

3. Software licensing is complex…

This includes…

⁻ Vendor licensing models⁻ Data centre & virtualization⁻ Multi-site contracts and agreements⁻ Managing growth, change, mergers and

acquisitions etc.

Part 2Focusing on what makes the biggest difference

⁻ Saving your organization money on their software spend

⁻ Negotiate new software contracts and agreements

⁻ Re-harvest unused licenses

⁻ Optimize current entitlement allocation

⁻ Completing projected license modelling exercises for internal

projects and to meet organizational growth

⁻ Identifying, implementing and managing software processes and

policies around:

⁻ Software requests

⁻ Procurement of licenses

⁻ Deployment of software

⁻ End of life and technology refreshes

⁻ Working towards achieving ISO, FAST, ITIL and security standards

What you could be doing

“Efficiency is doing things right.

Effectiveness is doing the right things”

Peter Drucker

By choosing a service…

- Fast to implement- Enables teams- Reduces complexity

Great, but how?!

Part 3 About License Dashboard

“There are a thousand hacking at the branches to one who is striking at the root.”

Henry David Thoreau

Why we’re in business

1. RECOGNIZE 2. OPTIMIZE 3. CONTROL

Services that help organizations identify and understand their

software estate

Services that help organizations maximize the

value of their software assets and reduce

compliance and overspend

Services that help organizations

maintain a balanced software estate

What we do

Consider the difference you could make if you had all of the license intelligence AND time you need to implement proactive change.

A parting thought

Our experience

Technology used to successfully deliver 1,000 SAM projects

globally

Designed, built & maintained by licensing experts and used

by SAM and licensing consultants in Europe, US,

Canada & Australia

Recognized by leading vendors; Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec,

VMware, Oracle, IBM and more

Q&A

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