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Beyond Cost Reduction. Save. (Re)Invest. Optimize.
Today’s digital landscape is evolving rapidly. Keeping track of all your software assets is becoming increasingly difficult. This usually results in higher costs for your business, as you might end up purchasing more licenses than you need or paying for maintenance or subscriptions you don’t need, resulting in shelfware. And what about cloud? Do you know exactly how much you spend and how your actual cloud usage impacts your business?
In the past, most organizations focused on cost reduction and savings. Today, many organizations are taking the next step. They are looking at ways to reinvest the money they saved to optimize and/or modernize their software landscape.
What is the right way to walk this path – Where do you start when you want to save? What do you do with the money you saved? How do you optimize, modernize, or transform to the (public) cloud?
We are here to embark on this journey with you.
Yes, in general it is possible to terminate licenses. However, doing so doesn’t always mean you will reduce your cost. Terminating licenses may result in repricing of the fees you will pay for the licenses you continue to use, which in the worst case means you might incur more cost than you have currently.
SAM tools are a valuable addition for managing your software assets. However, the tool doesn’t cover the complete IT infrastructure or the complete software portfolio and therefore provides an incomplete picture. Based on our experience, no tool can capture the full complexity of all your enterprise software.
There is no one size fits all. It depends on your current software usage, your future licensing needs and your overall IT strategy or roadmap. Having this insight is critical and will allow you to determine which cloud provider best matches your company’s business requirements.
Whilst many organizations think that their overall software cost will decrease when moving to the cloud, this is usually not the case. During the migration “double installations” might impact your costs. Keeping track of your cloud usage might prove challenging and the lack of central control and governance are the typical basis for unforeseen and unnecessary recurring spends.
We are seeing an increase in the number of audits. Some of the reasons can include an attempt to move from on-premise to the cloud or subscription model and making up for gaps in sales revenue. Depending on the software publisher, you might be requested to submit results of self-audits annually or will be audited on behalf of the publisher typically every 3-4 years.
Being responsible for software asset management can be challenging sometimes.
You have to keep track of all the software publishers’ updates and stay on top of the market changes, while managing everything internally. To support you with that, we’ve collated a selection of content pieces – blog articles, whitepapers and webinars – that will provide insight into how you can approach any software asset management related challenge.
Choose the topic(s) of your interest and we’ll send you our curated content.
Do you need help fast? Contact us and we’ll have someone get in touch with you.
Saving costs is not the end goal, but the starting point for optimization and modernization of the software landscape. Register here to receive weekly insights on how you can start saving costs on your software estate.
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Saving costs is not the end goal, but the starting point for optimization and modernization of the software landscape. Register here to receive weekly insights on how to achieve software compliance and avoid software audit risks.
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Saving costs is not the end goal, but the starting point for optimization and modernization of the software landscape. Register here to receive weekly insights on transformation and managing your licenses in the cloud.
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