Investors in Software Welcomes ISO/IEC 19770-1 Software Asset Management Standard; Ground-breaking International Standard Sets Benchmark for Best Practice in Software Asset Management.LONDON -- Investors in Software, the professional association dedicated to promoting Software Asset Management best practice, welcomes the launch of the new international standard for Software Asset Management (SAM). The ISO/IEC ISO/IEC International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (ITU-T M 3000) 19770-1 Software Asset Management Processes Standard establishes a baseline for an integrated set of processes and policies for effective software management. The international standard has been developed to enable organisations to prove that they are performing Software Asset Management (SAM) to a standard sufficient to satisfy corporate governance Corporate Governance The relationship between all the stakeholders in a company. This includes the shareholders, directors, and management of a company, as defined by the corporate charter, bylaws, formal policy, and rule of law. requirements and ensure effective support for IT Service Management overall. ISO/IEC 19770-1 is the result of close cooperation between Investors in Software (IiS), members of the standards community (in particular ISO/IEC JTC (standard, body) JTC - Joint Technical Committee. 1 SC7 WG21), the ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library, www.itil.co.uk) One of the more comprehensive as well as non-proprietary and publicly available sets of guidelines for "best practice" IT services management, owned by the British Office of Government Commerce (OGC). community, and the SAM community with support from the Swedish and British national standards institutes (SIS and BSI BSI - British Standards Institute ). Shaun Frohlich, Chair of Investors in Software said: "Good practice in SAM brings significant benefits in the areas of risk management, cost control, and competitive advantage. We welcome the ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. Standard as a very significant development for the software industry that brings huge benefits for software users, vendors and resellers. It enables organisations, for the first time, to benchmark their SAM processes against internationally approved guidelines. " ISO/IEC 19770-1 Software Asset Management Process is available for sale by electronic download from www.iso.org. It will also be available from national standards bodies and the usual distribution channels for ISO standards. Background Investors in Software ('IiS') is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee under English law. IiS's mission is to support and advance professionalism in software asset management and related IT asset management to enable individuals and organisations to improve effectiveness and efficiency. |
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