SAM Assurance

SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT AS A MANAGED SERVICE

SAM Assurance is a repetitive service supporting our customer in your Software Asset Management work. This service can be tailored based on the need from the customer depending on the complexity and SAM target within the customer’s organisation. Within SAM Assurance Insight’s offering covers the range from separate reports of current compliance to a complete solution for license management, supporting SAM processes and through an integrated tool the possibility to continuously maintain visibility and control of your software estate.

Insight’s certified SAM specialists work in team with our license advisors to secure the correct license agreement type and level for your organisation. We analyse your inventory data continuously and report unwanted changes to contact persons within your organisation. We help you to secure correct licensing also in complex environments with large number of applications and to maintain this ongoing. Additional to our experience we comply with ISO 19770-1 to secure correct and cost effective Software Asset Management.

The Benefits

• Create continuous transparency of the license situation (not only one time)
• Enable licenses to purchase only when necessary
• Assurance of not being over licensed
• Take advantage of license pool
• Enable life cycle management and to re-harvest licenses
• Enable control of the entire software and hardware estate
• Security of future correct licensing anytime on an ongoing basis
• Present a base line for planning, cost allocation and budgeting of future spend
• Present a base to drive standardization based usage and estate
  

Then you could

• Deliver on Corporate governance requirements
• Avoid under compliance and risks
• Using the managed service with entitlement and regular license status review meetings Insight's SAM Assurance will ensure you have full control of the software estate.
  

• Save 10-30% of license expenditure
• Optimize spending for IT
  Gartner says 30% of License expense can be saved if usage is monitored and used as basis for dimensioning software estate
  

• Create control

• Enable better informed decisions.
  You will be advised to the best software contracts.