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Certero Tool Showcase – Hot Topic Session – Ensuring Accuracy for SAM tools
SAM’s challenges….
SAM = People, Process & Tools
How knowledgeable are you and your team?How effective are your processes?How good are your Tools set?
• Are legacy toolsets fit for SAM?• Do you have 100% confidence with the data it gives you?• Does your tool provide you with all of the information you need for
SAM?• Accurate Inventory – does your discovery tool have 100% coverage?
Shifting Sands….
Source – Software Compliance without Tears – Ernst & Young
Vendor Audits are on the increase - % of organisations audited in the last 12 months
Survey Analysis: Software License Audit Surveys Show Shift in Focus and Intensity in 2014
2014 – 68%2013 – 63%2009 – 54%2007 – 37%
The Main Software Vendors Performing Audits
Gartner – The Software Vendors that are Auditing now & what to do about it – Jan 2012.
Objectives of Vendor compliance programmes
Source – Software Compliance without Tears – Ernst & Young
The SAM market is evolving• Past fairly easy to discover & inventory
what is on the PC’s & Servers• Harder to understand licensing rules
(each vendor different)• Reporting was a challenge – compare
inventory against entitlement = compliance
Today• New methods of application delivery
• Cloud• Application Streaming / SaaS• Complex Applications• BYOD• Thin Client
• Fast Changing environment• Estate Growing / Shrinking• New Applications• Smaller IT resources• Faster ROI requirement
Server FarmThin Client Devices (100)
All 100 devices can access MS Project
Num. Licenses Needed
100
One device needs to use a new application which has device-based licensing(e.g. Microsoft Project)
Server FarmThin Client Devices (100)
Only the targeted device can access MS Project
No. Licenses Needed
10090807060504030201054321
AccessCtrl allows Application Access on the Server Farm to be restricted by device
The Next Generation of IT & Software Asset Management
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Certero’s Top 3 Recommendations…
Hardware & Software Inventory
Accuracy of Inventory
Periodic Self-Assessment
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