Helping you to implement a Software Asset Management Programme
Everyone acknowledges software is one of the most valuable assets an organisation can own. But, if you don't know what you have, how can you make it work for you effectively and optimise your IT spend or resources?
Software Asset Management (SAM) helps you maintain maximum efficiency and value for your software assets. With SAM, you can manage, control, and protect your organisation’s software from purchase through deployment and retirement.
Software Asset Management isn’t just about compliance and audits. A robust SAM programme could help you to improve your IT infrastructure, enabling you to save costs and reinvest in IT innovation to support employee productivity or customer service.
About SAM
Software licences are valuable assets and should be managed effectively. SAM is a series of processes for managing and optimising your organisation's software assets throughout its lifecycle. Administered through a four-stage programme, SAM can help you determine what software licences you own, on which devices software is deployed, and for which upgrades your organisation is eligible. SAM enables organisations to invest in IT projects that deliver a competitive advantage.
What SAM can do for your Organisation
Get control
Regain control of all your systems.
Reduce technology conflicts and increase stability.
Know what licences you have and reduce redundancy.
See what software you really need.
Increase efficiency
Improve system, user and help-desk performance.
Be ready with backup and recovery plans.
Implement infrastructure optimisation and standardisation.
Reduce risks
Protect and secure your IT environment.
Minimise security threats and prevent unauthorised software downloads.
Stop worrying about compliance and over-licensing.
At Microsoft, we have created a complete SAM framework with tools, resources, support and a partner network to help you implement an effective SAM Programme.
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Learn from Microsoft SAM customers
Bowmer & Kirkland
"Thanks to our SAM process, we can now look at our software compliancy in an instant."
Carl Stirland, Director of IT, Bowmer & Kirkland
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Orange
"Using a Microsoft Software Asset Management
Partner solution means we have a best-practice
methodology for reconciling existing licences with
employee usage. This also delivers a system for
planning IT upgrades cost effectively."
Andy Gray, Senior Software Licence Analyst, Orange UK
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