The price of mis-managing software is high. Typically, organizations over-spend on software licensing by around 20 percent (purchasing duplicate licenses, failing to re-harvest, buying outside of volume license agreements etc) and the cost of reacting to a software audit can be as high as $500,000* if you don’t already have Software Asset Management (SAM) practices and technologies in place. [“Gartner Research: “Q&A on Dealing with a Software Audit” November 2008]
Front Range SAM has been developed to help organizations drive out unnecessary expense and improve how IT budgets are spent by:
Re-harvesting unused applications
FrontRange SAM helps identify where applications are installed on PCs but not actively used. This provides opportunities to remove unused applications and re-assign them to more needy users, rather than purchasing new additional licenses.
Better visibility and allocation of existing licenses
FrontRange SAM provides a single license repository of all desktop licenses held by the organization. This web reporting view can be accessed by authorized users anywhere across the business.
Identifying and stopping maverick purchases
Even where organizations have adopted centralized purchasing, many still suffer from ‘rogue’ purchasing which adds unnecessary costs to the business. FrontRange SAM can help identify rogue purchasing and enforce procurement policies.
Improving negotiations with software vendors
By giving the end user complete visibility of where they are from a licensing and software usage standpoint, negotiations with vendors can be more productive and advantageous.
Connecting the IT and Finance departments with a common management interface
FrontRange SAM is designed to be used by multiple authorized users across the organization, enabling the effective collaboration of teams to deliver effective software asset management.