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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.

Thursday September 9th 2010

10am-11am CT

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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

How to Buy a Lot Less Software

The investment your organization has made, and will continue to make, in your software, hardware, and printer portfolio is significant and vital. At the same time, no company wants to create a blank check for the acquisition, support, and maintenance of it all. If you are responsible for procurement, license renewal, ‘true-up’ negotiations, budgeting, or cost control, you will not want to miss this.

This webinar will illustrate how you can materially reduce your IT budget without job losses, and show what other companies have already achieved by employing these methods.

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Migrating from Windows XP to Windows 7

According to Microsoft’s Technet Website, “there is no Upgrade option available when installing Windows 7 on a computer running Windows XP. The task involves using Windows Easy Transfer to migrate files and settings from Windows XP to Windows 7 on the same computer. To do this you must first copy files to a removable media, such as an external hard drive or UFD, or to a network share. Then, you will install a fresh copy of Windows 7 on your existing hardware and then migrate your files back from the removable media or network location, onto your computer. When you are finished, you must install your software programs again, but your files and settings will have been copied from Windows XP¹”.

Since this can end up being a multi-step process involving many trips to the desktop,  Scalable Software can offer you an alternative solution to performing your upgrades with a zero-touch process in mind.  This Webinar will show you how by combining both Scalable Software’s Survey product and WinINSTALL Desktop Availability Suite; you will be able to determine first, what machines meet the minimum requirements for Windows 7 and then be able to target those machines for your Windows 7 Migration using WinINSTALL’s zero-touch process

A Practical Guide to Saving Money with Software Asset Management with Scott Fuzer of Five9 Technology

Due to the current economic situation, the demand for IT to reduce costs and risk is greater than ever before. Many industry experts consider the improved management of an organization’s software assets to be a significant compliance risk while at the same time being the greatest untouched source for cost savings. While there is agreement throughout the industry that Software Asset Management (SAM) has the potential for tremendous value, there are few sources to guide you through exactly how and what you should do to capitalize on your organization’s cost savings potential. Scott Fuzer from Five9 Technologies and Mark Miller from Scalable Software will walk you through practical approaches to SAM and show you exactly how to save money in one of the biggest areas of wasteful spending: Software