Welcome to Itootechnologies
Services We Offered
- Managed SAM (Software Asset Management) - Standard & Recurring
- Software Audit Protection Services
- Risk Reduction & Compliance
- Asset Management Roadmap & Vision
- Application Usage Monitoring (used for renewals)
The Need | Managed SAM (Software Asset Management)
Cost Optimization
- Software is a significant component of IT spend.
- Customer may be over-licensed and paying maintenance costs for software licenses not being used.
Asset Management
- Monitoring & Tracking of software in use is difficult.
- No “silver bullet” technology solution.
- Diverse and complex software licensing models.
- Reallocation of software licenses when hardware is moved or decommissioned.
Organizational Governance
- Getting compliant and staying that way also helps eliminate the potential damage to reputation that could arise from a legal dispute.
- Compliance with industry standards.
Security
- Without the ability to inventory and control software installed and allowed to run on their hardware, organizations make their systems more vulnerable to security threats.
- Inventory Open Source software to understand what is in use and what could potentially introduce security risks to the organization.
Risk – Legal & Regulatory
- Properly implementing SAM limits legal and financial exposure should problems with software licenses arise.
- Select industries have regulatory requirements on SAM.
Risk – Software Audits
- License Compliance Audits are on the rise➔ Gartner continues to predict an increase in vendor audits.
- Software vendors use license compliance audits to decrease squeeze on margins.
- Software industry alliance “bounties”.
From in-house SAM tool evaluation to Continuous Process adoption and improvement as a part of Managed Services
How We Do?
Phase – I: Determination of Scope Phase – II: IT Discovery Workshop
- Manual: Checklist based approach which involves manually visiting each machine
- Semi-Automated: Involves execution of custom-made scripts (BAT/VB) which can be executed centrally
- Automated: Involves inventory collection via tools from a centralized location
Phase – III: Purchase History & Entitlement Analysis Phase – IV: Gap Analysis & Recommendations Phase – V: Optimization
Key Deliverables
- License Compliance Skills and Attributes – SAM Process and Best Practice
- License and Subscription Optimization Skills and Attributes – Cost Optimization Experience
- Optimized Configurations Skills and Attributes – Economies of Scale
- Minimal Unnecessary Costs Skills and Attributes – Data Custodianship and Integration
- Minimized unused Software Skills and Attributes – Detailed usage rights intelligence
Why SLS (Key Differentiators)
- Independent SLS does not work with any publisher either as a funded Auditor or Large Account Reseller
- SAM Roadmap and Vision SAM Maturity Assessment is a part of our standard process, and we provide necessary vision and recommendations to bring cost efficiency.
- Complete Ownership SLS takes end to end complete ownership of SAM reviews in case of Audits/ reviews funded by Publishers
- ISO Standards Our approach and methodology follow ISO 19770-1 and related best practices
- Forensic Approach Methodology to identify not only deployments but also un-installations, cracks, keygens, publisher specific advanced checks and component analysis
