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Do We Actually Need Software License Management?

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Wait, before you shoot me down just let me explain. Software license management is now a major industry with many strong software companies competing around the same proposition. Everybody has heard the horror stories of audits and the major fines that have been levied against companies for either not having control over their licenses or using them incorrectly. The providers of software don't make this any easier with complex license models which seem to constantly change. So, it's obvious … [Read more...]

A Step-by-Step Action Plan for Microsoft Audit Preparation

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In an article published in CIO.com, 75% of enterprises are found to be out of compliance, with the biggest vendor normally being Microsoft. Every enterprise should be prepared if a software vendor audit were to occur. These are four majors steps an organization can take in performing a self-audit to prepare for a real audit: Take a baseline inventory of all installed software, as well as related usage. Don't forget off-network devices, virtualized applications, and IT assets for which ASNs … [Read more...]

My Five Favorite Data Points

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Anyone who has witnessed an Asset Vision product demonstration delivered by me will have heard the phrase "My Five Favorite Data Points." I can't recall exactly when I first fostered this phrase, but the sentiment has been around from the moment I engaged with my first customer on behalf of Scalable Software. These preferred pieces of information (with examples) are: Who Used ("Will Degener") What Software ("MS Word") From Where ("His Laptop") For How Long ("32 Minutes") How Intensely … [Read more...]

Who You Gonna Call?

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By Bruce Aboudara and Martin Koegel A clever co-operation: Asset Vision® (Scalable) meets samQ (VOQUZ) Even though companies use a lot of different software, only a few have the resources and expertise to really handle all their software licenses efficiently and with confidence. Therefore, it's reasonable to use a software asset management solution, which is specialized in the different types of licenses. Why you need specialized help on applications like SAP Remembering … [Read more...]

Turning Data into Decisions

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Data is everywhere. Data is used to back up assumptions presented as facts. We look to data to create information that we base business, personal and community decisions on. Not only are the absolutes of the numbers important, but how they were obtained, how they are analyzed, and what assumptions are made are critical to assessing the value of the data. This creates uncertainty and even applying the scientific method is no basis for comfort. One such example is "p-hacking," in which … [Read more...]

5 Tips for License Contract Management Success

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One of the first steps to take when building a SAM program is establishing how to gather and manage your licensing contracts. This can be quite a confusing and daunting task, so here are five tips to get it you up and running. From there on you should be able to create a "care and feeding" program to maintain the results of your hard work. 1) Where to start? Rome wasn't built in a day and neither was your license contract management system. The task of collecting, consolidating, and archiving … [Read more...]

Data Center Virtualization: A Software Licensing “Gotcha?”

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Data center virtualization is booming (according to one source, at a rate 4X that of cloud adoption), resulting in significant software license issues for some companies.[1] The complexity of licensing models, and the difficulty in precisely identifying which virtual machine (VM) has which application running at which time, can lead to spectacular license compliance issues. If the VMs are enabled to move freely around a cluster, then very significant liabilities can accrue. For example, … [Read more...]

Software License Optimization, Defined

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Software License Optimization at its best provides unequivocal evidence to support software license recycling, and thereby reduce the number of licenses required. Software License Optimization relies upon accurate software usage metering of the installed software products. By identifying whether software packages are being used, and feeding that information back into the procurement cycle, Software License Optimization enable procurement professionals to make informed decisions about the … [Read more...]

Software License Metering, Defined

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Software License Metering enables a variety of software asset usage monitoring, including: Discovering, tracking, and optimizing software license usage IT Governance, Risk, and Compliance monitoring to ensure usage aligns with company policies Enabling software license management to ensure compliance with BYOD and mobile device policies Monitoring for software use that is time-metered or "pay per use" metered Discovery of unlicensed software Limiting the use of certain applications … [Read more...]

Software License Recycling, Defined

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Software license recycling is the process by which, within a business’s entitlements, software that is no longer needed by an individual is passed to another individual who has a genuine need. The passing of the license from one individual to another saves the cost of an additional license. In a large organization with multiple licensed titles across distributed and often autonomous organizations, recycling licenses is at once highly challenging but potentially hugely lucrative. Given the … [Read more...]

Scalable’s IT Asset Management Solutions & Services

We provide an integrated, cloud-based, product-set that discovers and aggregates IT asset, usage, license and procurement information, to present coherent and actionable intelligence, supported by industry expertise, to optimize an organizations investment in IT. Our software asset management services have led many businesses to improve. Let your business thrive with solutions and optimization by Scalable.

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