Distributed Software Analysis
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Service Description
Our Distributed Software Analysis is an effective way of analyzing your software licenses with installed hardware to ensure that distributed software costs are accurate and you’re not overpaying for unused licenses. ISAM studies the data you’ve collected, compares it to invoices and your installed distributed hardware. Our analysis generally saves clients between 20 and 30 percent from their total distributed software budget.
Key Benefits
- The Distributed Software Pricing Analysis helps complete and correct internal data tools.
- This service identifies unused licenses and correct invoice amounts.
- This service ensures licensing compliance.
- This service ensures that clients do not inadvertently purchase unnecessary licenses.
- The Distributed Software Analysis frees up licenses caused by accounting errors.
- Our service helps you understand and implement SAM best practices.
- This service generally saves our clients a significant amount of money.
Collecting Your Data for Analysis
We begin by collecting your software invoices and license agreements. We also help you collect distributed software data from various source files including: inventory management databases, technical logs, spreadsheets and vendor invoices. If the client uses an auto-discovery tool, we review that data for consistency as well. We can usually take any file format and extract the data for use in our technical metrics. Specific company information is kept in the strictest confidence.
Our Process
- The Distributed Software Pricing Analysis begins with a review of your distributed software invoices and license agreements. This is followed by a review of the technical deployment.
- We then develop several technical metrics to analyze license entitlement with deployment.
- If needed, we may identify procedural improvements with respect to vendor rules and industry best practices.
- We propose a variety of cost-saving scenarios to suggest specific cost savings.
- Our report offers suggestions for SAM best practices and long-term savings strategies for your distributed software portfolio.
Service Deliverables
- ISAM provides a reconciliation of licensed inventory to distributed software licenses.
- We provide a comparison of installed software vs. licensed inventory.
- Our report demonstrates immediate savings, license compliance or non-compliance.
- ISAM helps you indentify excessive licensing and under-used distributed software licenses.
- Our report offers suggestions for SAM best practices and long-term savings strategies.
Project Timeline
Once the data is received, it generally takes about four weeks (after getting complete data) to produce the Distributed Software Analysis Report.
Our Experts
The ISAM team is made up of professionals with unique expertise in software asset management. Our team members have financial expertise, software pricing expertise, database expertise, data center management expertise and they all provide excellent customer service.
Additional Information
Our clients realize the greatest savings when their SAM teams openly share information with ISAM about other changes planned to their environment. For example, when we are made aware of upcoming changes to a hardware configuration, we are often able to make suggestions for additional savings.