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Software Asset Management

ISC Software Asset Management (SAM) helps you balance the software you run now against your true operational needs, license entitlement, future plans and purchasing schedules. A continuous process, SAM gives you a detailed, up-to-date view of your software with a modular range of services - making management exceptionally easy.

SAM delivers substantial cost reductions, improved business processes and better corporate governance. It also helps you gain full software compliance and improves your IT budgeting and forecasting.

  • Free initial healthcheck of IT infrastructure & policies
  • Audit to create detailed hardware/software inventories
  • Software license reconciliation services (gap analysis of licenses held against software usage, over licensing or shortfall identification, cost-effective re-licensing advice, counterfeit software identification)
  • Asset tagging
  • Training
  • Subscriptions to hosted IT asset management systems - record, control & depreciate assets
  • Policy/procedure creation; implementation via on-line learning management systems
  • BSA/FAST certification for specific software publisher accreditation services
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