Do you have the time to count each of your
licenses and manage them all?

How long does it take?

How much does it cost in time and resources?

BT Engage IT can help provide a simplified
approach to Software Asset Management

The economic downturn means time and resources need to managed more efficiently – you need to get the maximum value out of your assets before investing large amounts of precious funds on new ones. Money spent on products you didn't realise you had / don't need, takes money out of projects that could enhance your business and make you more valuable and competitive in a difficult marketplace.

What is Software Asset Management (SAM)?

SAM is essentially a process to help your business manage the Software Assets that the company has acquired. It is as simple as that.

“Microsoft believes effective SAM practices are an essential part of delivering business and financial value. SAM brings together people, processes and technology to control and optimise the use of software in your organisation. This often means organisations get more out of their investment, they are able to reduce IT labour costs, and can minimise the impact of security issues and non compliance and counterfeit software upon their network and business. SAM also brings about stronger IT management enabling greater business insight and responsiveness which can help your organisation to adapt quickly in tough economic times.” Sam Bramwell, Microsoft Ltd

Business benefits:

• Keep information safe by ensuring you have the most up-to-date software and security patches
• Increase productivity with the latest software versions that can be easily deployed as a result of SAM
• Improve satisfaction by ensuring staff have the software they need to do their jobs efficiently
• Obtain peace of mind in knowing you are compliant with your software licences
• Show ROI on your current and future software investments

Financial benefits:

• Organisations using SAM no longer spend money on software titles that are not necessary to their business
• Your licence inventory allows you to efficiently deploy software covered by existing licences rather than buying new licences
• SAM encourages you to standardise software where possible. This reduces incompatibility issues, cutting the support time needed to resolve them.
• SAM allows you to take advantage of volume licence savings through a centralised software and licence-acquisition resource

Our approach

The approach that BT Engage IT takes is to review and understand your existing investments, appreciate your company culture and preferred methods of working, to engage with your staff to produce a solution tailored to your needs. By not reinventing processes that are already in place, enhancements can be easily implemented that reduce the impact on the normal daily business. With stronger processes in place, the data flowing into your discovery tool should be easier to manage, which leads to the data flowing out being easier to use when making business decisions around business efficiencies.

If your current toolset of choice is no longer fit for purpose, we have a team to assist with implementation of the two leading toolsets on the market, as well as the ability to support many others.

With detailed knowledge showing what software is within your network, why it is there and confirmation that it is utilised leads to your licensing management to be drastically simplified. Compliancy then becomes a daily confirmation instead of an annual headache or under the constant worry of a manufacturer audit.

About BT Engage IT

BT Engage IT provides businesses with access to one of the most comprehensive IT services portfolios in the market. Additionally, as part of the BT Group, we are able to offer a truly integrated suite of IT services to assist in the advice, design, deployment and support of IT requirements to meet clients’ business needs.

Our insight and capabilities enable clients to leverage and grow their businesses in an increasingly complex and dynamic market.

Our organisation employs over 900 staff, with 70 professional services consultants, 72 accredited Microsoft engineers and over 300 field engineers. With over 2900 billing customers we also ensure best practice throughout the business and meet the British Standards Institution (BSi) international BS ISO IEC 20000 (Information Technology Service Management) certifications.

Our goal is to make our customers' lives easier and simpler. In part, this is achieved by employing talented people and ensuring a flexible, collaborative approach to delivery - maximising value is at the heart of everything we do.

With over 30 years experience, our success is founded on four factors: proven expertise; the highest level accreditations; breadth of capabilities; and the ability to provide high value/low risk advanced technology.

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