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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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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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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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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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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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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When embarking on a Software Asset Management (SAM) programme, it is essential that your tool selection is not made in isolation – your SAM tools must match your overall requirement for IT management tools. By taking this approach, you will ensure that all your SAM processes are fully integrated with your IT management tools and that all aspects of your SAM programme are implemented and adopted effectively.
For most environments, there is a need for not one tool, but many tools to be implemented in order to achieve a successful SAM programme.
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Gartner, the world’s leading information technology research and advisory company, estimates that organisations that begin an IT and Software Asset Management (IT&SAM) programme experience up to a 30% reduction in cost per asset in the first year and continued savings of 5 to 10% annually over the next five years.
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