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The document discusses Snow License Manager and software asset management. It provides an overview of Snow products and services, who should manage software compliance, what information is needed for management, and the day-to-day tasks involved. Key aspects of management include adopting tools, maintaining entitlements, agreements and renewals, usage monitoring, and being aware of current and future risks like cloud, virtualization, and new license metrics.
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- 1. SNOW LICENSE MANAGER LEIGH MARTIN
- 2. AGENDA • Snowoverview • Where do I start? • Who is the right person to manage software compliance? • What information do I need to collect? • The day to day management of Software Asset Management Tools • Future risk
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- 4. PRODUCTS & SERVICES Snow Software's products are designed to deliver fast ROI, superior data collection & reporting capabilities. From initial deployments through to SAM baselines & cost-reduction Snow License Manager Software Recognition Service Snow Inventory External Data Provider Oracle Management Option Snow SAP Optimizer SAM Services Snow Proof of Concept Entitlement Services SAM Implementation Oracle Review Services Snow Product Training programs, Snow offers a range of services.
- 5. DRIVERS FOR ASAM PLATFORM Pay for what you use – remove unused software and avoid unnecessary software investments Re-harvest software in license pools at end of PC life cycle Turn local software purchases into company assets Become legally compliant and avoid audit fines with less effort Spread costs within the organisation and create local incentives for cost savings Renew your maintenance contracts based on actual software usage Avoid piracy and illegal application usage Consolidate your software estate and reduce maintenance cost
- 9. WHERE DO ISTART? • Entering Entitlement
- 11. WHO IS THERIGHT PERSON? Roles & responsibilities • IT • Procurement • Change Control • Software asset manager • DBA • Security • Finance • Support
- 12. SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENTTEAM • THE CHALLENGE: A generic ‘SAM Manager’, the fact is that Software Asset Management is rarely a one-man job • For most organisations, there should be a virtual team of stakeholders from multiple departments (IT, procurement and governance) and business units. Organisations can drive additional value from integrating SAM with other IT systems such as the helpdesk - access to inventory and licensing data can dramatically accelerate resolution times. License Manager Global SAM owner License purchaser Technical staff Local application owner + +
- 14. DAY TO DAYMANAGEMENT • Adopting the tool • Client roll out / integration • Maintaining Entitlement • Support (licensing,downgrades etc..) • Agreements / Renewals • Complex Licensing • Pricing
- 15. DAY TO DAYMANAGEMENT • Pricing
- 16. DAY TO DAYMANAGEMENT • Adopting the tool • Client roll out / integration • Maintaining Entitlement • Support (licensing,downgrades etc..) • Agreements / Renewals • Complex Licensing • Pricing • Monitoring Usage
- 17. WHERE DO ISTART? • Understanding Usage
- 18. DAY TO DAYMANAGEMENT • Adopting the tool • Client roll out / integration • Maintaining Entitlement • Support (licensing,downgrades etc..) • Agreements / Renewals • Complex Licensing • Pricing • Monitoring Usage • Software Library
- 19. DAY TO DAYMANAGEMENT • Software Library
- 20. DAY TO DAYMANAGEMENT • Adopting the tool • Client roll out / integration • Maintaining Entitlement • Support (licensing,downgrades etc..) • Agreements / Renewals • Complex Licensing • Pricing • Monitoring Usage • Software Library • Software Request & Deployments
- 21. SOFTWARE REQUEST &DEPLOYMENTS IT department Marketing Manager • Budget controller • Sign off “Professional Marketing user” • Requests Visio Professional Spare license? Purchase? DAY TO DAY MANAGEMENT
- 22. DAY TO DAYMANAGEMENT Marketing Manager • Budget controller “Professional user” • Sign off • Requests Visio Professional Spare license? Purchase? IT department • Security • Operations • Support Reporting • Usage • Costs • Allocation Approval process • Business justification • Re-charge Re-harvest? Web? Agreements SOFTWARE REQUEST & DEPLOYMENTS
- 23. BE AWARE OFCURRENT & FUTURE RISKS • MSDN / Dev Software • BYOD • Cloud • Virtualisation • Web based applications • SPLA • Hosted • AWS/Azure • SaaS • Audit response • New License metrics • Mobile Apps • Indirect Licensing • Hardware Licensing • Maintenance • Datacentre
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