Our expertise with
Cost Optimization
In today’s turbulent global economy, companies are searching for ways to reduce their existing costs. While IT may often be viewed as a support department within most organizations, there is actually the potential for significant savings as companies often tend to purchase too many or too few licenses and have difficulties tracking their spending and purchases.
We at ITAM solutions focus on providing Software Asset Management (SAM) services that can allow you to better optimize your IT spending by providing you greater visibility and control over your IT landscape.
Visibility
Gaining visibility over your existing software assets lays the foundation for any efforts to improve cost optimization via SAM. This is because the data gathered regarding the software purchases you have made and your software entitlements is what we will use to create a verified license position for you (VLP). Which in turn, is also how we will determine your current compliance position and begin advising on the next steps.
With the new found visibility, we can help you:
- Be better prepared for software audits! By having a better understanding on the compliance position and/or detect any unlicensed installations, we can proactively take steps to resolve any software incompliances, potentially avoiding significant audit fines.
- Determine functional overlaps within your IT Landscape, allowing you to terminate unneeded applications.
- Detect license underuse so that you an reassign the software/terminate contracts as needed.
- Identify opportunities to consolidate contracts/change licensing models, giving better leverage when negotiating with software vendors.
Control
Once we have more insight about your software usage and have developed a plan of action to improve your organization’s SAM practise, we also have to ensure that the plan is executed and that there are processes in place to close off unauthorized and/or unnecessary purchases/usage. At ITAM solutions, we can:
- Integrate SAM into your software request process (SRA) so that any software requests within your organization for new or additional software have been thoroughly vetted and assessed, ensuring that software acquisition is done on a need to have basis.
- Remediate and software optimize usage by unassigning licenses from inactive users.
In conclusion, Software asset management provides you better visibility and control over your software spending. This allows you to ensure that you get the maximum ROI from your software spending and that any purchases/assignments of software are carried out on a need to have basis. It also allows you to cut down on unlicensed installations and unauthorized purchases, reducing your risk of going over your budget, or worse yet, being subject to a software audit.
