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How Software Asset Management Can Help You Save Money

Thursday, July 7th, 2011

Simply put, Software Asset Management is a business process that can help you reduce your licensing costs and optimize your software assets. The business benefits of Software Asset Management are:

Reduce software licensing costs – only purchase/renew licenses for software that is used. Track all your license rights, such as upgrade, downgrade and transfer rights to optimize the way you account for and use your software assets.

Reduce help desk costs – on average, 50% of the time spend troubleshooting computer issues is spent on obtaining the computer configuration

Minimize unauthorized software usage, security risks – SAM empowers you to use the right software for you. Ensuring that your employees are using only authorized software helps increase productivity and avoid security risks.

Reduce business and legal risk due to not meeting regulatory requirements, or not complying with software vendor license agreements.

Better negotiation capabilities with your software vendors – knowing exactly what you have and what you need, as well as the number of licenses you need and your current license rights puts you in control in your next license negotiation.

Software Asset Management can help you reduce your overall software licensing costs by only purchasing software that you use and need, organize your licensing assets and keep track of your licenses agreements, terms and renewal dates. It is a process that helps you know which software is installed and used across your enterprise, and minimize unauthorized software usage. You can use it to better manage your software assets from a business perspective, reduce the cost of software licensing and improves your software asset utilization.

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Enterprise it Asset Management – Managing Your Company’s it Assets

Monday, April 19th, 2010

By effectively managing the life cycle of an organization’s IT assets, the IT manager has significant influence to improve an organization’s overall performance, reduce costs, improve effectiveness, and improve and demonstrate the IT department’s ROI. Managing an Enterprise’s IT assets is essential for an organization’s competitiveness today. Deploying an IT Asset Management system will help avoid failures and quickly identify wasted IT resources and other inefficiencies.

Corporations, small business, government agencies or educational institutions, all require a comprehensive solution for managing computer and software assets, controlling expenses, and automating license compliance. Enterprises require an end-to-end solution that is capable of:

Taking IT Inventory, including computers, software, servers, laptops, and mobile devices that connect to your network. Get Instant IT visibility: Have an accurate Computer Inventory and easily view updated configuration and physical location of each computer, server or laptop. View over 200 different hardware properties and know which software titles are installed on each computer. Search every IT asset by CPU, by operating system, by vendor and many more. Then export the data to CSV, PDF or HTML files directly from each view, giving you an easy way to export your data from the service and create useful reports. The Compliance Manager ensures IT compliance by tracking computers and software that are installed on your network and matching your software inventory against your software licenses to determine compliance status.

Online IT management software such as SAManage allows you to make sure that your organization has the ability to manage their IT assets throughout their lifecycle, and helps you better manage your enterprise IT assets.

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How it Asset Management Can Save You Money

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Proper management of your IT assets can help you save money and reduce your overall IT costs. According to IAITAM, proactive IT asset management can reduce your IT costs by up to 25%. By knowing which computers and software are used across your company, and matching the inventory information against your financial and contractual records you can make better IT decisions and get more out of your IT budget. IT Asset Management provides the following benefits:

1. Gain control over your assets, know which assets exist on your network, their configuration and the changes to these assets. A good asset management system would help you easily analyze the information to make decisions.

2. Implement procedures that will save you money a good IT asset management system would help you create and enforce policies and procedures that will save you money. You can implement software usage policies, standard hardware configurations, asset request processes and other processes that would help you extract more value from your assets.

3. Make better IT decisions by organizing your IT assets inventory and aligning it with your financial records and contracts you can better IT decisions. For example, you can better prepare for a contract renewal by knowing what you actually use and need to renew, what terms you negotiated in the previous contract or which computers are part of a hardware lease that is expiring soon.

4. Reduce help-desk and support costs by providing your support personal with detailed asset configuration you help them provide quicker issue resolution, and reduce your IT support costs.

5. Detect risks to your IT assets – analyze your IT assets to detect any potential risks such as missing security patches or improper anti-virus / anti-spyware protection.

6. Ensure regulatory and software license compliance.

To learn more about IT Asset Management for Small Business owners, and how getting started has become easier with on-demand IT Asset Management, visit SAManage at www.SAManage.com today and sign-up for a free 30-days trial of our service.

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