Software Asset Management

How your IT assets are specified, purchased and used can have an enormous impact on your business. By separating software management into distinct, user friendly stages, ISC has developed a modular, cost effective and flexible range of customer defined Software Asset Management (SAM) services.

SAM is designed to give you a continuous, detailed, up-to-date view of all your software assets, placed in the context of your business requirements, software entitlement, IT planning/deployment and purchasing processes.

SAM delivers numerous benefits for senior management: significant cost savings, improved business processes, enhanced software compliance and better IT budgeting and forecasting.

Software Install Base

SAM determines what software you have by deploying a software auditing tool on your network. If you are running legacy operating systems, these may require a physical visit depending on your exact network configuration.

Software Entitlement

To assess which software you are licensed to use, we analyse all licensing documents.

The data from the SAM programme is then reconciled and a gap analysis identifies any disparity between the count and actual utilisation. If there is over-licensing or a shortfall, corrective action is recommended.

Should compliance purchases be required we will determine the most suitable and cost-effective licensing programme.

The SAM report is confidential; no information is passed to third parties unless you request a comparison with the relevant publisher's records. All SAM projects are managed using Prince2® guidelines.

Key Features

• Free initial health check of IT infrastructure and policies
• Audit for detailed hardware/software inventories
• Software license reconciliation services (including gap analysis of licenses held compared to current software usage, over-licensing or shortfall identification, re-licensing advice, counterfeit software identification)
• Meet compliance regulations
• Asset tagging
• Training
• Subscriptions to hosted IT asset management systems - you can record, control and depreciate assets
• BSA/FAST certification or specific Software Publisher accreditation services

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