While software is essential to every organization, it is often seen as a tool and not a strategic asset that can increase efficiency, as well, as decrease costs and risk exposure.
Avoid Running the Risk of Failure
While software is essential to every organization, it is often seen as a tool and not a strategic asset that can increase efficiency, as well, as decrease costs and risk exposure.
Software takes up 20-35% of the typical IT budget and enterprise software purchasing and upgrades are on the rise. Gartner projects worldwide software sales will hit $297 billion by 2014 (with a projection of $143.6 billion in North America). With organizations typically over- or under-license by approximately 30%, an effective software asset management (SAM) program could mean significant savings in the first year and a continual 10 to 15% reduction in the total cost of ownership (TCO) year-after-year. This could mean millions or billions in savings in the first 5 years.
Software licensing is increasingly complex
Even as vendors promise to work on simplifying their licensing models, the sheer enormity of managing software licensing can be overwhelming. In all likelihood, your organization has and works with several software vendors, which intensifies and complicates the entire process.
At the heart of any SAM program is the ability to truly understand and interpret a software vendor’s contract(s) – specifically the Terms & Conditions and the licensing models and changes. The first and foremost fact that any organization should understand is that purchasing software from a software vendor does not mean you own the software. It means you are purchasing the rights to use the software within a certain set of conditions – as stated in the contract.
Successful Results
A successfully implemented software asset management program will result in:
- Reduced audit exposure & financial risk to the enterprise
- Reduced security risk from unauthorized software within the environment
- Improved budgeting process and financial controls
- Increased operational efficiency
Software asset management is viewed by Animus as a discipline that can lead to substantial cost savings and operational efficiencies for an organization. Providing measurements and documentation to cost-justify a project, implement improvements in technical or process areas of the SAM program, Animus Solution works with you to develop a SAM vision, strategy and policy that is unique to your organization and tied to your business strategy.
And, to ensure your implementation works now and in the future, these processes must be communicated so as to be understood, accepted and practiced by the organization.
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