With software taking up an ever increasing share of your IT budget, it has become even more important to manage, control and protect your software assets. Having a greater understanding of your licence position and being able to track what software you have deployed can definitely help you avoid unnecessary expenditure.
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Licence management | SAM
Over the past 6 months, we have seen our customer-base double in size and our channel has had to broaden its reach into counties such as the United States, Canada, South Africa and New Zealand.
With organisations keen to continue driving down IT costs, many have reached out to the Licence Dashboard to assist in this unyielding challenge.
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We are delighted to welcome SHI as an authorised reseller of the Licence Dashboard in the United States. SHI has transformed itself from a $1 million “software-only” regional reseller into a $3 billion+ global provider of information technology products and services.
We are looking forward to working with SHI and extending our services into the US market.
With software taking up an ever increasing share of your IT budget, it has become even more important to manage, control and protect your software assets. Having access to a comprehensive licence management tool, like Licence Dashboard, could help reduce your organisation’s software licence spend by up to 30% per year.
Licence Dashboard is Europe’s leading Software Licence Management tool, facilitating and driving more Software Asset Management (SAM) programmes than any other application on today’s market. Licence Dashboard is an essential tool for any organisation looking to hone its licence management process. Without it, managing software assets becomes an arduous and resource intensive task, one which suppresses the savings you could be making.
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Lean IT is all about maximising IT resources while minimising waste. A lean organisation is able to maintain and deliver high levels of service without losing control of its financial and legal responsibilities. With IT budgets being slashed, there has never been a better time for organisations to take control and manage their IT resources effectively.
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The Licence Dashboard™ tool has been selected as a 2009 Microsoft Worldwide Partner Conference Awards finalist in Licensing Solutions, Software Asset Management.
We are delighted to have our unique Software Asset Management tool, Licence Dashboard, recognised on such an international stage. Our work over the last five years in developing this tool means that Licence Dashboard is now regarded as a world-class solution for managing software assets and all of the complex metrics for both desktop and server licensing associated with a SAM/ITAM project.
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Over the last 10 years, nearly every aspect of managing an IT environment has increased in complexity. From desktops, laptops, PDAs and servers to software, contracts and maintenance agreements, the task of managing the thousands of IT assets spread across an organisation has become an extremely difficult one.
By implementing an effective technology solution, however, along with appropriate business processes, you can quickly and efficiently manage your IT investments and leverage better control of costs related to compliance, procurement, budgeting and forecasting.
When it comes to choosing the right tools, surely all you have to do is to select the cheapest one, or one which integrates best with your existing infrastructure? Wrong! Unfortunately, when it comes to managing your IT assets, there is one snag – licensing!
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Adobe offer affordable purchasing options to Universities, Colleges and Research Councils allowing them to acquire products such as Creative Suite and Acrobat. These solutions, which help reduce the vast amount of paper that is used for administrative functions and make it easy to create forms and manage content, are now widely used and have become essential tools within these institutions.
Although the options are flexible and make it easy to acquire licences, many of those responsible for managing the compliance of these products, especially those purchasing concurrent licences, have informed me that it has become an arduous and an expensive task to manage and control their Adobe entitlement effectively.
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How do you know which asset management tool to implement, before you know what software needs to be measured? This is exactly the question you should ask yourself before purchasing a very expensive inventory tool.
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Many organisations are looking at desktop virtualisation as an upgrade option to their entire approach to desktop management. With users now demanding greater access to their applications, desktop virtualisation offers powerful opportunities to IT departments to deliver and manage application usage more effectively.
A degree of caution is required, however, when considering your virtualisation options as the associated software licence issues can become even more challenging then simply deploying an application to a local device.
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