Real-Time Software Asset Management (SAM)

Manage software assets effectively with solutions designed for the purpose

Discovery is the basis for a successful software asset management (SAM). Having an automated and integrated discovery tool specifically designed for SAM is required for a successful and repeatable SAM process.

Among all SAM implementations, 75% of it go over-budget and do not meet their business goals, a huge part of this contributes to companies using tools not designed for SAM and do not have the data required for successful SAM projects; these tools are often existing IT operations tools such as Microsoft’s SCCM, BMC’s ADDM, IBM’s Big Fix and more.

This forces the project to require additional steps and processes such as discovery customisation, data consolidation and standardisation, all of these consume considerable time, money, and external consultants. Our team provides products, platforms, and a process to help automate your SAM process with world-class software and hardware discovery , standardisation and license optimisation all designed to work together as an integrated solution which is continuously updated.

Business Benefits:

Discovery. This involves the discovery of the installation and usage of software on host systems such as desktops, tablets, mobiles, and physical and virtual servers; and second the discovery of the entitlements or purchases of this software.

Standardisation. This means creating consistent names or identification for the discovery data, both the installed or used and the entitlement or purchase data.

License position. This task involves calculating the licenses required based on the installed or usage data and the software vendor’s licensing rules and metrics, and then comparing that to the organisations  entitlements or purchases.

License optimization. This step involves comparing the organisations current entitlements and licensing rules to alternative licensing rules typically from the same vendor and looking for cost advantages.

Why Choose e-Volve?

e-Volve is your complete answer to SAM and compliance through harnessing world class discovery, standardisation tools and processes and aligning these to vendor licencing rules and metrics to psosition an organisation for license optimisation.