Every year organisations make considerable financial investment in the software that enables them to function efficiently. This investment can represent a considerable proportion of their capital budget which may be distributed in numerous areas including plant, machinery, buildings, vehicles and many other essential items.

However, unlike the other items, software has seldom been considered or treated as the valuable asset it is, and therefore not "managed" correctly. The result of this can be over spending, legal and financial risk, poor support for end users, technical instability … the list goes on.

The establishment of Software Asset Management (SAM) as a modern business principle has revolutionised the way in which organisations can realise the best value in their software purchases and manage it effectively throughout its entire life cycle.

WHAT IS SAM?
In a nutshell, "Software Asset Management is all of the infrastructure and processes necessary for the effective management, control and protection of the software assets within an organisation, throughout all stages of the lifecycle."[definition from IT Infrastructure Library guide to SAM].

Like any other asset, your software and licensing assets need managing. SAM protects your organisation's software and helps you identify what you've got, where its running, and any license "overlap". Many of our customers have realised that there was little or NO management of their software license purchasing or usage. Consequently, they found that they were either OVER provisioned with software, or under licensed and on the wrong side of the law.

With our vast experience of SAM, and our recent acquisition of SAMpartners® we can help you:

• Ensure you get and remain legally compliant

• Discover what is on your network and create detailed inventory

• Reduce the total cost of ownership of your software

• Reduce training costs

• Centralise purchasing and management of software licenses

• Make upgrading easier and quicker

• Ensure better pricing

• Prevent incorrect product purchases

• Improved return on investment

• Create a robust and effective SAM infrastructure

Through a consultative approach, and in association with SAMpartners, Trustmarque Solutions manage the software licences for your selected manufacturers across the whole of your organisation, and so in turn help you save significant time and money.

Here's what we can offer you:

• Detailed and comprehensive network audits

• Establishment of your legal licence position

• Assessment of SAM policies and procedures in accordance with the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) guideline

• Quarterly Reviews to help with

  • Compliance

  • Licence renewals

  • Maintenance agreement renewals

  • Advice on future licence purchases and requirements

  • Knowledge of actual software use

Call us today to discuss this and many other solutions, and click here to read about how SAMpartners operates