What is Software Asset Management

While some enterprise data centre costs, such as hardware, storage and processing power, have fallen, software costs have risen, which makes cutting and managing costs in this area a high priority.

The challenge is that software assets such as Oracle database, applications and middleware are notoriously complex to manage, due to factors including:

• The significant variations in deployment - from desktop to datacentre
• The multitude of metrics ­- from named user to processor core
• The huge number of product types - from middleware, applications and business intelligence tools to development environments

There is an answer

Implementing a holistic Software Asset Management programme can turn these inefficiencies to your advantage - and help you realise cost reductions of around 30%. We know, because we can help you make it happen.

We've been pioneers in enterprise datacentre Software Asset Management since 2001. In that time SAM has begun to mature ­- and we've supported the emergence of industry standards such as ISO/IEC 19770, a framework for best practice launched in May 2006 with ITIL integration.

There's more to SAM than cutting costs

While IT Governance initiatives and legislation, such as Sarbanes Oxley (SOX), have increased the recognition and uptake of SAM, the two most common reasons for it are still IT cost reduction initiatives and the mitigation of compliance risk from vendor audits.

IT audit and SAM tools are often seen as the panacea, but in our experience they rarely result in benefits on their own. To give optimum benefit they need implemented within an integrated SAM rollout with a proven SAM project methodology. And that's precisely what we can help you do.

For further information on how a Rocela Software Asset Management programme could benefit your business, call +44 (0) 870 100 4000 (or contact us).