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itSMF UK Conference and Exhibition

The premier ITSM event of the year is the itSMF UK Conference and Exhibition, which combines a programme of more than 40 educational sessions with a bustling ITSM exhibition and an annual awards dinner. This year the event will be returning to the Novotel London West on the 7th & 8th November 2011.  Scalable Software partner, Agileise Ltd,  will be exhibiting Scalable Software solutions.  Please be sure to stop by the Agileise booth to learn more the 200% ROI guarantee on Scalable Survey, a revolutionary solution that combines software usage metering and license management.

First Steps to Windows 7 Migration: Application Inventory and Remediation

Planning a successful Windows 7 migration requires key information about the applications and environments being migrated. App-DNA and Scalable Software are delighted to invite you to this educational webinar, which will introduce you to this information and its impact on a successful migration.

Topics covered include

• Identifying and prioritizing candidate applications, machines and users
• Insights on application testing and environment compatibility
• Troubleshooting applications with industry compliant remediation steps
• Best practices for creating a Windows 7 migration plan and budget
• Zero-touch migration

App-DNA and Scalable have many years experience in the planning, assesement and execution of application migration to newer Operating Systems. Our skills and tooling have been used on many occassions to effect successful migration; on-time and and within budget. This webinar represents an opportunity to benefit from some of lessons we have learned from our many customer engagements.

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A Practical Guide to Surviving a Software Audit with West Monroe Partners

Don’t wait until you are audited to experience the common audit practices designed to ensure you are found out of compliance.

Vendor Software Audits are on the rise. If you haven’t already been audited, you probably will soon.
If you are an IT or Financial Executive with any level of compliance or financial responsibility for your software portfolio you will want to attend this webinar? You will learn

•    The strategies vendors employ to maximize their take from a software audit
•    How to prepare your team to ensure you remain in control of the audit
•    The first steps to take when the audit notification arrives
•    Ways to lower the chances of being audited in the first place

Don’t wait to receive the audit notification before starting preparation as by then it’s already too late; the vendor is likely to be several months ahead of you in their preparation.

You can be sure of taking away practical advice, which can be used immeditaely, to help survive a software audit.

About West Monroe Partners
West Monroe Partners (WMP) are recognized experts in the field of software audit preparation. With many years of experience in helping companies proactively organize management of their software assets, WMP brings a real-world perspective on how software audits unfold and what companies can do to mitigate their effects.

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The Cost of Underpowered Automation for Software Asset Management with IAITAM

Successful Software Asset Management programs have two goals; to provide license compliance and to obtain maximum value for the organization for the investment in software.  These business practices have the potential to yield significant savings as well as tactical and strategic decision support for a myriad of organizational goals.  However, SAM programs are often limited by the strength of the automation available, particularly if using products acquired for other primary purposes and weak in ITAM functionality.

Join IAITAM and Scalable Software for a webinar identifying the limitations of software distribution and configuration management products when used for software discovery.  Learn to measure the costs and risks associated with using products like SMS or SCCM for Software Asset Management such as:

·         Software audit exposures
·         License entitlement management complications
·         Software installation report accuracy issues
·         Rampant  over purchasing
·         Software harvesting (recycling) roadblocks

This webinar will help practitioners and executives understand the solid business case for maturing software asset management programs through automation.

A Practical Guide to Saving Money with Software Asset Management with Forrester Research

There has never been a time when driving unnecessary costs out of IT expenditure is more critical; many new projects remain on hold due to funding constraints and an increase in vendor audits and true-ups is putting intense pressure on budgets.

Are any of the following questions difficult to answer?

•    How many different software titles are there in your organization?
•    When and where your software portfolio being used and by whom?
•    How many software packages with the same function do you have?
•    Can you reconcile purchased licenses to those actually deployed?  
•    Could you survive an audit if it happened tomorrow?
•    Who needs a read-only or report license rather than a full licence?

If you are unsure of the answer or if your answer is ‘no’ to any of these questions, you are almost certainly spending more that you need to, and this webinar is for you