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Reducing Software License Costs
Jason Short Sr. Product Manager
Reducing Software License Costs
Joel Smith Principal Support Engineer
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Agenda
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Software Audit Report 1
6 Best Practices to Reduce Software License Costs 2
Collecting Inventory 3
Software Metering Rules 4
Reporting 5
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Software Audit Report
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Software Mega Trends – Software Audits
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Source: Express Metrix 2013 Software Audit Industry Report
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Software Mega Trends – Software Audits
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Source: Express Metrix 2013 Software Audit Industry Report
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6 Steps to Reduce Software Costs
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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs
Common Criteria:
• Software Costs
• Vendor
• Proliferation in the Environment
1. Establish a corporate criteria for IT managed software
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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs
IT Managed:
• Establish easy to access request process
• Define SLA for requests
• Define IT support levels for new software
Non-IT Managed:
• Include planning in department budgets
• Define and enforce an expense reimbursement policy
2. Establish a policy and practice for onboarding IT managed and non-IT managed software licenses
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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs
• Utilize a corporate app stores
– Software Portal
– App Center
– Front Office
• Publish a Software Request process as part of your service catalog
– Workflow
– ServiceDesk
3. Establish easier workflows for end users to get access to IT managed software
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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs
4. Utilize software inventory to understand installed software
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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs
5. Meter high value applications
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• Look to Enterprise Contracts
• Include High Value Applications
• Vendor Audit History
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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs
6. Harvest underutilized licenses
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Demo Custom Inventory and Metering Rules – Joel Smith
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Thank you!
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