From purchasing software, to spending on maintenance and support, Software Asset Management has the potential of taking up a large percentage of your organization’s IT budget. Managing IT spend wisely is a top priority for both finance and IT professionals, and so License Dashboard has developed a range of SAM solutions designed to help monitor, manage and optimize the licensing and procurement of your software assets.
Software Vendor Audits
With a reported 68% chance of receiving a software vendor audit, from at least one vendor, within the next year, the chances of receiving a notification are at an all time high.
License Dashboard’s suite of Software Asset Management solutions offers you full visibility of the applications deployed across all platforms and reduce the disruption brought about by vendor audits.
Audit and cleanse the data import for an accurate ELP
Remove the manual work with intelligent, automatic reconciliation
Demonstrate results with a suite of Management Reports
Software License Optimization
Being fully prepared should a software vendor send notification of an audit is only part of SAM. Ensuring the licenses already purchased are being utilized to their full reduces the change of overspend.
By reconciling your organization’s’ software entitlements against what is actually in use, License Dashboard prevents wasting licenses and highlights non-compliance by asking the following:
Are you in a fit state to be audited?
Are you wasting your software budget?
Are you bogged down by transactional tasks?
Visibility of Estate
Understanding which software assets, hardware assets and licenses are being used by your organization at any one time is the first step to saving money and minimizing risk. It’s essential in effective SAM and essential in making strategic procurement decisions.
License Dashboard’s visibility of estate solution will locate and identify IT assets, and produce actionable inventory data.
Identify your most effective inventory tools
Minimize software security risks by knowing what to protect
Re-harvest or remove unused assets to save money
Data Normalization
Your organization’s software asset management data can come from multiple sources, which means it will likely include inconsistencies in format.
Data normalization from License Dashboard makes sense of your data, and presents it in a readable, usable way:
Get complete and accurate ITAM visibility
Reveal any risks of non-compliance
Refine your network with reliable insight
Users request the software they need
IT managers check availability
Procurement initiates approved purchases
Drive down unnecessary costs by avoiding over-purchasing
Provide data to facilitate better contract negotiations
Make more informed purchasing decisions based on user data
Only when you understand what software is being used can your organization create an Effective Licensing Position (ELP), and so a critical requirement of both software asset management and License Management is an accurate audit.
Designed to find and report on all software deployed across your network, Dashboard Discovery fully integrates with License Manager to provide a reliable audit source:
Reconcile against license entitlements captured in License Manager
Full hardware audit of all Windows PCs and Servers on the network
Understand what needs to be protected with full visibility of your estate
Quickly discover and fix hardware problems
Speed up the hardware request process for users
Simplify your upgrade and maintenance renewals
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