Software Asset Management (SAM)
Software Asset Management (SAM) is rapidly
becoming a global standard, due to the legal and financial implications of
incompliancy. Vendor driven licensing audits are becoming common practice and
software owners do not wish to be caught unprepared.
Insight Offers The Following Range Of Software
Services:
- License Reconciliation Service
- Insight:LicenseAdvisor
- SAM Assurance
- SAM ISO Assessment
- SAM Desk
The License Reconciliation Service - Ensuring Software Compliance
To
ensure software compliance, it is imperative for organisations to understand
what software is deployed and equally important to understand exactly what
software is actually used before making any investment or changes. Insight’s
License Reconciliation Service (LRS) can deliver this visibility. The LRS
process involves comparing the installed and used software products with
existing software license entitlement documentation, providing comprehensive
reports and recommended actions to ensure full compliancy.
Insight:LicenseAdvisor - A comprehensive license management
tool
In order to facilitate your software management, Insight has
developed a comprehensive application, Insight:LicenseAdvisor, that integrates
your existing processes, creating a single software asset management solution.
It is a solution that will allow you to gain control over your software assets,
to enable you to purchase, deploy and manage software quickly and
cost-efficiently.
What makes Insight:LicenseAdvisor
such a great solution?
The tool focuses on the single most
important factor, driving every aspect of software management: entitlement.
Insight:LicenseAdvisor will help you to quickly determine:
- Who is entitled to purchase a software license
- The right media for a license entitlement
- How to entitle users, groups and the enterprise to receive software
- The best way for users to request entitlement
- How to manage entitlements going forward
It all adds up to a
system that ensures companies get what they are entitles to from their
software.
SAM Assurance - Keep control over your software licenses
Software
licenses cost money and they influence your IT budget enormously. If you are not
licensed correctly, you will face two major problems:
- Legal, in case
you use more licenses than purchased.
- Budget, in case you have bought more
licenses than you need.
By defining and implementing Software Asset
Management (SAM) processes you are able to create transparency and compliance.
Also you make sure that your budget for software licenses is used in an
efficient way. SAM is no witchcraft but it needs broad knowledge and experience
with software inventories and license instructions of vendors. Leverage the
experience of the Insight SAM Consultants and more than 200 successful
projects.
Insight consultants offer a continuous service through SAM
Assurance, comparing your actual number of licenses and SAM processes on a
regular basis.
- SAM Assurance provides permanent transparency on the
software usage
- SAM Assurance documents your licence compliance on a regular
basis – also towards third parties like software vendors
- SAM Assurance
supports your planning of the software budget – you will only calculate with the
number of software licenses actually needed
- SAM Assurance helps improving
your purchasing processes – and protects you from maverick software
purchases
SAM ISO Assessment - Evaluate your SAM Processes based on the international
Standards and find improvement potential
The SAM ISO Assessment is based
on the ISO/IEC 19770-1 standard for Software Asset Management. This standard has
been developed to enable organisations to check whether they perform Software
Asset Management to a standard sufficient to satisfy corporate governance
requirements.
The assessment sets all relevant corporate processes
against the ISO/IEC 19770-1 standard processes and procedures, offering
organisations an insight into their SAM status, and comparing this to an
independent internationally accepted, norm.
SAM Desk - Offering the expertise you need
With an average of 600
different software applications installed within a company, the
management of
software assets is becoming increasingly complex and difficult. Knowing that
each software vendor has its own licensing policies only adds to the confusion.
Companies, for which software is not the core business, often find themselves
lost in this maze of vendor specific policies and procedures.
Over the
years Insight has build up a thorough knowledge of software asset management,
vendor policies and procedures, contract specifications, etc. As a trusted
advisor to its clients, Insight’s Client Solutions Team offers this knowledge to
you, in order to help you where needed.
Complex Software Management
Insight’s SAM Desk is a
‘made-to-measure’ service for clients who need assistance with any aspect of
their software management. It is an Enterprise level solution that can help you
take control of your IT costs, of the complex issue of global licensing and the
legal aspects of license compliance.
A tailored offering
The SAM Desk solution contains an array of
individual services which can be selected and combined to deliver a tailored
offering to suite your specific requirements, including:
- License analysis
- Individual company license pool
- License and expenditure benchmarking
- License monitoring
- License tracking and reconciliation with current needs
- Management of license benefits
- Assistance with licensing decisions
This is dependent on the
requirements of the client. The result is an onsite or offsite managed solution
delivered by Insight’s highly specialized SAM and licensing experts.
