Establish a baseline assessment of your IT environment through this one-time check-up and clean-up of your licensing situation. It addresses the critical step you need to take before engaging in any new agreement, true-up, or renewal. This is the perfect engagement when you want to know your licensing situation at one given time.
SAM Standard Service from SoftwareONE is a one-time check-up and clean-up of your licensing situation that provides you with a solid, foundational assessment of your IT environment. It addresses the critical step you need to take before engaging in any new agreement, true-up or renewal. It’s the perfect engagement for companies who want to know their license situation at one given time.
SAM Standard Service Packages
The SAM Standard Service offers four standard packages:
- 1-Publisher such as Microsoft, Adobe and many more (potential funding available through the publisher)
- Oracle
- Desktop Suite (includes Microsoft, Adobe, Security Publisher and a publisher of choice)
- Server Suite (includes Microsoft, Oracle and a publisher of choice)
Additionally, SoftwareONE is prepared to put together a package for any publisher you would like to include in a GAP analysis.
SAM Standard Service Process
Check-up
This comprehensive SAM analysis/assessment targets the SAM methodology implemented by your organization. Working together in a workshop setting, we’ll gain a better understanding of your current SAM practice. Our goal is 100% visibility as we provide an assessment of your software asset environment.
Clean-up
By leveraging the information provided during check-up, SoftwareONE will help you lay out the steps needed to help your company eliminate risks, clean up software assets and maintain ongoing control.
Our SAM team will use an agentless solution to scan your desktop and server environment. We’ll also reach out to Microsoft or any other publishers, depending on the scope of work, to gather all the volume licenses, as well as all of your tracked licenses.
The core clean-up step is license analysis, where we compare what’s installed to what’s entitled based on all the different rights, such as downgrade rights or virtualization rights. Based on the results of our analysis, we will help you purchase the licenses you need, consolidate the licenses you have, adjust existing contracts with publishers, or make recommendations on uninstallation scenarios.