Drivers for Change

In today’s recessionary climate, organisations must gain control of their IT environment for three key reasons:

Cost Avoidance

Reducing total expenditure is a priority for IT departments. Being either over or under-licensed means you are wasting thousands of pounds annually. So you must ensure you are:

• Not procuring any unnecessary licences
• Utilising all your software to its maximum effect
• Not paying for unnecessary support and maintenance.

Compliance

Alongside the regulatory driver, software vendors see compliance as their route to new licence sales, offsetting smaller IT customer budgets by taking a zero tolerance approach to illegal software usage. Organisations who adopt SAM best practice can achieve upto 25 percent savings immediately by reducing maintenance and internal business costs.

Change and Complexity

Technology change is creating more complex licensing schemes and vendor agreements, making it difficult for companies to keep abreast of licensing regulations and contracts. Plus managing software with the advent of technologies such as cloud computing, virtualisation and SaaS is no easy task. M&A activity also introduces complexity into the management of software.

It’s All about Trust!

Organisations need a ‘trusted’ partner to advise how best to cope with these business challenges. Trustmarque Solutions can help ascertain the best strategy to rationalise your IT environment, saving time and money by:

• Helping to better qualify business risk
• Providing guidance on cost effective software procurement and maintenance
• Always working with your best interests in mind.

We are software management experts with a range of Software Licensing Services to help meet the challenge of cost avoidance, compliance and change/complexity. These include: Renewals Management, Procurement Management, Entitlement Management, Software Asset Management, Licensing Consultancy, Portfolio and Catalogue Management.  To find out more about our solutions contact info@trustmarque.com