What Other Companies Say About Software Asset Management (SAM)
There are many successful business precedents for using SAM.
Microsoft is receiving more and more customer feedback about ROI, including savings of more than 20% in overall IT budgets and significant savings in the cost of procurement and administration.
The following UK case studies reveal how businesses already implementing SAM are realising significant benefits, so we hope you find parallels to give you confidence in the potential of SAM to help your business.
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A SAM engagement allowed Southampton Football Club to adopt proven best practices, making it easier for their IT department to do its job.
“I was expecting lots of disruption, but there wasn’t any. I simply switched the machines on, logged SAMwise into one PC as administrator, and left them to it. Within one day it had all the audit data.”
Mark Wierzbicki, IT Manager, Southampton FC |
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SAM policy helped manufacturer Hussmann gain control of its IT assets and save money by identifying areas where it was over-licensed.
“We were massively over-licensed on certain products that we no longer use… ...previously they would have just downloaded the software without our knowing or would have got us to purchase the latest product.”
William Pollock, Technical Analyst, Hussmann |
 | By automating their SAM solution, Orange cut licensing costs by 30% - and established best practices for future IT management. |
 | By implementing a program of integrated software procurement, of licence position management, and of consistent deployment processes, the company’s licence positions are now permanently maintained. VT Group can report on its licence assets, on demand, while reducing the cost of operations through increases in efficiency. |
 | Switching to an Enterprise Agreement helped make SAM much easier for this engineering firm. They saved 20 days of compliance administration and can now implement new business initiatives without worrying about increasing software costs. |
