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SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT

SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT. Vincent Cornet Software Asset Management Lead Microsoft Belgium - Luxembourg 22 February 2011. What is SAM?. A vital business process that provides a system for the effective management, control, and protection of the software assets within your organization.

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SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT

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  1. SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT Vincent Cornet Software Asset Management Lead Microsoft Belgium - Luxembourg 22 February 2011

  2. What is SAM? A vital business process that provides a system for the effective management, control, and protection of the software assets within your organization.

  3. The Business Case for SAM Software asset management helps you avoid unnecessary costs and minimize risks. SAM helps you to optimize your investment in software SAM helps your company to be agile

  4. SAM is not • Just a tool • Just about licenses • Just an IT problem • A Microsoft concept

  5. The moment of truth • Do you have a SAM plan? • Do you have corporate governance for compliancy? • Do you have a clear and reliable map of what is installed? • Do you know what is really used? • Do you understand licensing in a datacenter? • Does finance know about Software Asset? • How does work the connection deployment – purchase? • Did you purchase or cease a company in your history? • …….

  6. The Business Case for SAM Control Costs • Save money by using what you already have. • Eliminate waste by determining true software needs. • Get the best deal on licenses. • Gain financial security and tax benefits. • Continue seeing more value.

  7. The Business Case for SAM Optimize Performance • Simplify purchasing, deployment, and support. • Enhance IT control and improve system performance. • Align infrastructure with business goals. • Empower your people and improve their productivity.

  8. The Business Case for SAM Mitigate Risks • Proactively reduce non-compliance risks. • Ensure your systems are compliant. • Secure your technology investment. • Eliminate worries about viruses and other threats.

  9. The Business Case for SAM Add to Your Prestige • Secure documented proof of your compliance. • Promote it to differentiate your company from competitors.

  10. The Operational Case for SAM Software asset management can give you better control over your company’s IT environment, while eliminating the uncertainty around compliance.

  11. The Operational Case for SAM Increase Efficiency • Improve system, user, and help-desk performance. • Be ready with backup and recovery plans. • Implement infrastructure optimization and standardization.

  12. SAM Helps Your Entire Organization Software asset management makes many jobs easier, increases productivity, and lowers the cost of doing business.

  13. Everyone Benefits from SAM • IT Staff • Make every day easier by knowing what you have, so you can streamline procedures and efficiently plan upgrades and deployments. • Department Heads/Business Unit Managers • Increase the visibility of current IT spending to ensure better budget planning of projected spends and acquisitions. • Legal • Be ready with complete documentation of compliance, should the need ever arise. • Purchasing • Gain centralized control and implement/enforce procurement procedures, and greatly simplify reporting, budgeting, and acquisition of IT assets. • Human Resources • Ensure employee compliance by implementing/enforcing policies that minimize legal and security threats.

  14. SAM Benefits Summary • Reduced costs • Better intelligence • Assured compliance • Increased security • Streamlined processes • Improved user productivity • Simplified IT management

  15. Microsoft SAM Services SAM Baseline SAM Assessment Review of customers existing processes against SAM Optimization Model framework, identifying improvement opportunities and associated ROI. Inventory of deployed Microsoft assets, review of corresponding customer license documentation, virtual, hosted, or cloud-based solutions, and identification of any opportunities for improvement. SAM Deployment Planning Provides deployment assistance for processes and technologies to support key SAM areas, including deployment, metering, inventory and control. Special focus on solutions deploying Microsoft technologies including System Center, MDOP AIS, or MAP.

  16. Enterprise Licensing Position

  17. But also, …. Old - No Support Support Ends Soon Supported

  18. SAM assesment IT Optimisation Model and SOM

  19. And an improvement plan

  20. SAM POLL • Do you have a SAM plan with people dedicated to its execution ? • When did you run the latest scan of your infrastructure for software inventory ? • Are financial and accounting people connected with your SAM process ? • Do you have Corporate Governance related to compliancy and translated in policy that is related to software usage/installs ? • Do you have a formal retirement process for end of live hardware which include software cleaning and license registration ?

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