SAM

What is Software Asset Management?

SAM is a business management operation, used for optimising purchase deployment, utilisation, maintenance and software application disposal amongst an organisation. SAM is necessary to protect, manage and control an organisations software assets and ensure that software usage is in line with it’s terms and conditions.

SAM tools can help with automating and facilitation of the managed processes and it’s useful to note that SAM can only be a successful practice with the correct use of technology, people and processes.

So, what are the benefits of Software Asset Management?

Here are our TOP 4.

 1. Spend Reduction – Organisations can take control over costs by consolidating their software needs. Unnecessary costs can be cut by reviewing licences across the organisation, thus the need for additional licences and spends, if appropriate. If your organisation has a higher level of licences than users, the cost can quickly be reduced. Any applications that duplicate the same functions, can be limited, consolidated and save you money.

 2. Risk Reduction – With SAM, any licence issues will be alerted ahead of audit, which will save any financial fine risks. Having your SAM in place will avoid any legal or organisational reputation damage, with all assets managed and controlled proactively, any cause for concern ahead of an annual audit is eliminated.

 3. Investment maximisation – IT Optimisation opportunities such as shared servers and staying ahead with modern technology (using outdated systems can be damaging for your company)  ahead of your competitors can increase your investment opportunities and resources. A lot can be said for using the correct processes, so it’s vital that the processes used are fully advantageous to your organisation.

 4. Competitive advantage – Using SAM saves so many hours within your organisation, which free’s up valuable time by cutting administrative and error costs, enabling you to focus on the bigger picture and create more focus and  hours for higher-end projects.

 Microsoft Volume Licensing enables organisations to centrally manage the purchasing and management of Microsoft software assets and ensures where appropriate that an organisation if compliant.

Software Asset Management is an area where we have expertise and partner with specialists in this field supplying audits and applications to help with the process of SAM.

 For more information, contact our Team on 01274 461 410 or get in touch sales@connected-it.co.uk