“I didn’t see needing SAMwise as a failing. I’m not a licensing expert, I’m a support expert”  Dave Berwick, IT Manager, Mitsubishi Motors in the UK

“I was amazed by how in-depth the audit process was. It would have taken weeks of manual auditing for us to achieve the same level of detail”  Mark Wierzbicki, IT Manager, Southampton Football Club

“Software Asset Management has become an imperative, not an option” George Cox, Director General, the IOD

licence reconciliation
Whether you require an audit because your company has been contacted by a software vendor or legal authority, or because it's proactively seeking all the benefits that follow an audit, our first solution is to perform a gap analysis to identify any licence shortfalls or situations where you may be over-licensed. This process can also be performed periodically as part of a “health check”.

A licence reconciliation is the starting point of any SAM project. Its your gateway to saving money by re-deploying over purchased software and becoming legally compliant by reconciling any shortages.

ongoing licence management
SAMwise believe the next stage should be to either implement a licence management product to hold licence records, or to better utilise existing systems. We can advise on implementing licence management and software distribution products that offer a complete SAM solution. The third party products we recommend and use include tools from Altiris, Centennial, Express Metrix, Snow Software and Software Organiser.

SAMwise can advise on which options will best suit the existing infrastructure and tool sets used, arrange evaluations for SAM products and manage the implementation.

business process consultancy
SAMwise uses ‘Best Practice for Software Asset Management’ developed by ITIL (IT Infrastructure Library) and adapted by the ISO/IEC 19770-1 Software Asset Management standard to give organisations a practical structure to adopt SAM and to help organisations use SAM as a meaningful management discipline. By helping establish a suitable culture within an organisation, and with support from senior business and IT managers, SAM is no longer seen as an IT requirement, but an essential every day part of your business.

By reviewing the overall software purchase and software management processes, SAMwise will compile a full business process re-engineering document to be presented to your Board, IT management and relevant parts of the business.

msdn specialisation   NEW!
We are the first Microsoft Partner in the country to offer organisations a conclusive review of their MSDN usage. Our knowledge of MSDN has won us financial backing from Microsoft to work with customers to ensure they are receiving all the potential benefits from their MSDN subscriptions, check they are on the most cost effective licensing scheme and correctly licensing the software they are using. more...

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