SAMwise asset management service.Grey Matter has announced the launch of its new software asset management service, SAMwise. This is a cost effective and flexible solution that breaks Software Asset Management (SAM) down into manageable steps, by offering a range of services to meet customer requirements. SAMwise enables customers to save costs through elimination of over-licensing and redeployment re·de·ploy tr.v. re·de·ployed, re·de·ploy·ing, re·de·ploys 1. To move (military forces) from one combat zone to another. 2. of unused assets and can ensure licensing agreements or support contracts are not invalidated in·val·i·date tr.v. in·val·i·dat·ed, in·val·i·dat·ing, in·val·i·dates To make invalid; nullify. in·val . SAMwise modular services include: * Free initial health check of IT infrastructure and policies. * IT infrastructure auditing to create detailed 1T asset inventories (including both hardware and software). This can be done via software or through physical auditing. * Software licence reconciliation services: including gap analysis of licenses held compared to current software usage; identification of areas of over-licensing or shortfall; advice on how to re-licence cost effectively and identification of counterfeit To falsify, deceive, or defraud. A copy or imitation of something that is intended to be taken as authentic and genuine in order to deceive another. A counterfeit coin is one that may pass for a genuine coin and may include a lower denomination coin altered so that it may software. * Asset tagging. * 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). (IT Infrastructure Library) process re-engineering ORIEL is the most widely accepted approach to IT Service Management. ITIL provides a cohesive cohesive, n the capability to cohere or stick together to form a mass. set of best practice drawn from the public and private sectors, internationally.) * Training. * Subscriptions to hosted IT asset estate management systems allowing customers to record, control and depreciate depreciate v. in accounting, to reduce the value of an asset each year theoretically on the basis that the assets (such as equipment, vehicles or structures) will eventually become obsolete, worn out and of little value. (See: depreciation) assets. * Policy and procedure creation, including Acceptable Use and Purchasing Procedures, and/or implementation through online learning management systems. * Accreditation services, helping companies reach BSA/FAST certification or specific Software Publisher accreditation. For further information please visit www.SAMwise.co.uk |
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