Know Your Software Portfolio For an Efficient SAM

Customer: RWE IT GmbH

Industry: Energy provider

Services: Company-wide verification of installed software as an on-premise service with the SoftwareONE Profiler. Implementation of the test environment and workshop for interpreting the results and potential for added value.

What’s really being used? Based on this question, RWE’s own IT service provider wanted to gain a detailed overview of the software available in the entire network as simply as possible. This was in order to identify and eliminate unwanted or non-business software and to use the knowledge gained for more efficient software asset management.

The spectrum of applications for software products almost mirrors RWE’s wide range of activities, from energy consulting, payroll accounting, and gas billing to service management right through to managing wind farms in the North Sea. Therefore, it was perfect that the SoftwareONE Profiler offered a database with more than 12,000 software vendors and well over 450,000 products*.

Thanks to the extremely high identification rate of the SoftwareONE Profiler, all the inventory data gained flows into the existing SAM tool. This allowed RWE to achieve quick savings in this previously costly area.

*Updated by June 2019: Currently the database includes more than 15,000 vendors and 1,200,000 releases.

““It was clear after the first test run of the SoftwareONE Profiler that this service is a great help when it comes to identifying problem areas on the software side in the IT infrastructure. We can now access a clear ‘map’ of the software in use from a technical viewpoint practically at the push of a button. Even decision makers outside of IT administration have a convenient, real-time overview of the situation,” says Rolf Notthoff, Head of Software Asset Management, RWE IT GmbH, Essen, Germany.