SAM
Licences
Software Asset Management (SAM) is a process for identifying and removing software that is not being actively used on the estate, with the primary aim of reducing the estate's complexity. It can also generate sizable cost savings due to avoiding software licence purchases.
The Licences Actionalytic focuses on managing software licenses within an organisation by comparing actual installations with the reported licence numbers.
What: The Licences Actionalytic manages software licenses by comparing actual installations with reported license numbers.
Why: To ensure compliance, mitigate legal and financial risks, optimise costs, and ensure accurate communication with application owners.
How: The Licences Actionalytic compares the number of software installs with licensed quantities, identifies compliance status, detects non-compliance, and prompts communication with app owners for missing license information.
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Benefits
The Licences Actionalytic serves as a critical tool, allowing organisations to facilitate cost efficiency and compliance through meticulous analysis of software installations and license alignment. It helps to optimise costs by identifying instances of over-licensing or under-licensing so organisations can align their software licenses more accurately with actual usage. By ensuring compliance with software licensing agreements, it also minimises the risk of legal issues or financial penalties associated with non-compliance.
How It Works
The Licences process works like this:
Data Collection: Gathers information on software installations and the number of licenses from app owners.
Comparison Analysis: Compares the number of software installs with the licensed quantity to identify instances of over-licensing or under-licensing.
Communication with App Owners: Contacts app owners to verify license information, ensuring accuracy and completeness in Clear Visibility.
Compliance Check: Assesses compliance with licensing agreements, flagging non-compliant situations for remediation.
Cost Optimisation: Supports cost optimisation efforts by identifying opportunities to purchase licenses based on actual usage.
Enhance
The Enhance Actionalytic is designed to evaluate an organisation’s installed applications and suggest cost-effective alternatives.
This system not only identifies opportunities for efficiency improvement but also presents recommendations through a user-friendly dashboard and detailed PDF reports, facilitating informed decision-making and seamless transitions to better alternatives.
What: The Enhance Actionalytic assesses current applications and suggests more efficient or cost-effective alternatives.
Why: To identify opportunities for efficiency improvement and cost savings. Both facilitate seamless transitions to better alternatives that allow for more informed decision-making.
How: By evaluating current applications, recommending enhancements, and presenting them through user-friendly interfaces for seamless adoption.
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Benefits
The Enhance Actionalytic offers several benefits that organisations may find valuable. It enhances the overall efficiency of application usage by identifying opportunities for improvement and streamlining workflows. It also ensures optimal resource utilisation by identifying potential cost savings and recommending more cost-effective alternatives.
How It Works
The Enhance process works like this:
Evaluation: Analyses the existing applications across the organisation.
Alternative Identification: Seeks free or cheaper alternatives to current applications.
Recommendations: Presents recommendations for cost savings or improved efficiency.
User Interface: Utilises a user-friendly dashboard for easy viewing of recommendations.
Detailed Reports: Generates detailed PDF reports for comprehensive insights.
Facilitation: If accepted, facilitates the transition to the recommended applications.
Confirm Software
The Confirm Software Actionalytic is designed to optimise software usage across an organisation. By prompting users to confirm the applications they actively use, it helps identify unused software, leading to cost savings and streamlined IT resources.
This Actionalytic ensures that software inventories are accurate, reducing unnecessary licensing costs and facilitating efficient hardware readiness processes. Through user confirmations, it provides valuable data for optimising software and hardware management.
What: The Confirm Software Actionalytic prompts users to confirm their software usage to optimise and manage software inventory.
Why: To ensure cost-effectiveness, compliance, and streamlined processes during hardware replacements or refresh cycles.
How: By sending tasks to users to confirm their software usage, this Actionalytic identifies unused software for removal, contributing to efficient hardware readiness.
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Benefits
By actively confirming software usage, organisations can streamline their IT resources and enhance operational efficiency, leading to cost savings and improved readiness for hardware upgrades. Software optimisation is achieved by identifying and removing unused applications to reduce unnecessary licensing costs, while users' software needs for device replacements or refreshes are accurately assessed.
How It Works
The confirm software process works like this:
Task Assignment: End users receive a task listing installed software on their device.
User Confirmation: Users indicate whether they use or don't use each software.
Data Collection: Responses are collected to assess software usage.
Automated Removal: Unused software can be automatically flagged for removal.
Hardware Readiness: Ensures users have necessary software for device replacements or upgrades.
Integration with Readiness Actionalytic: Facilitates hardware readiness for device replacements or upgrades.
Software Usage
Reduce overall licence costs by removing unused software from the estate. As much as 20% of an estate’s assets are unused, but the organisation is still paying for the software licences on these devices.
By tracking the usage status of devices, it helps in excluding software associated with non-live assets, ensuring that the organisation only pays for actively used software licenses.
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Benefits
By removing unused software, organisations can achieve significant cost savings and reduce complexity in their IT environment. Older software versions on unused devices can be removed, streamlining the software landscape and saving up to 20% of the software budget. For an estate with 5,000 assets, this can result in savings of up to £100,000.
How It Works
The process of identifying and removing unused software involves tracking the activity status of all assets:
Data Collection: ClearVisibility tracks the ‘heartbeat’ of all assets using data from the main management system (such as SCCM), supplemented by Active Directory and Antivirus reports.
Identifying Unused Devices: Devices not connected to the network for 30 days are marked as Not Live, and associated software is excluded from the inventory.
Customizable Settings: The 30-day default setting can be adjusted based on organisational needs.
Licence Reporting: Licence entitlement reports will only account for used software, aligning with third-party audit tools to ensure compliance.