Blog How Software Asset Management Can Benefit Your Organization
By Bob Agno / 25 Oct 2023 / Topics: As a service Procurement Software Software Asset Management (SAM)
Digital transformation is vital to staying competitive. But because of digital transformation projects, many organizations are seeing an explosion of software purchases — introducing costs and complexity to their software environments that can hinder strategic growth if managed poorly. As organizations increase their reliance on software assets, Software Asset Management (SAM) can help to ensure they are optimizing ROI and establishing well-governed processes for licensing.
Goodbye complexity, hello strategic direction.
Software purchases often come with a slew of management challenges, including multiple vendor relationships, software agreements and licensing conditions, procurement and consumption visibility, compliance, and more. Unfortunately, many organizations lack the bandwidth and expertise to enact an effective asset management strategy across the entire licensing domain.
That’s why more organizations are choosing to work with an expert third party like Insight for SAM solutions and services. Our SAM capabilities provide clients with the visibility, clarity and guidance necessary to control costs, mitigate risks and drive stronger performance across their software asset portfolios. Our solutions and services for full-spectrum SAM include:
- Implementation, management and support for a range of data and tooling platforms
- Compliance and remediation support
- Monitoring and advisory services
- Management of license pools and reallocation of deployments
- Support for internal billing and cost allocation, including cloud and SaaS cost management
- Support for vendor or internal software audits
Through consulting, services and proprietary tools, clients benefit from full control over their software assets, optimizing software resources through the entire asset lifecycle and taking a strategic approach to licensing that’s tailored to their business goals. Look for SAM solutions that:
- Optimize your software investments by exposing risks, identifying trends and highlighting opportunities.
- Capture critical data from your environment for actionable insights to reduce costs, minimize risks and improve license consumption.
- Harvest unused licenses and monitor software usage to minimize entitlement gaps that waste budget.
- Reduce IT involvement, freeing up internal resources to focus strategic priorities.
- Simplify billing, ensuring accurate invoices are produced for each business unit, department and cost center across your software environment.
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Insight’s continuing to grow as an expert in the SAM space, thanks to our global coverage, flexible pricing models, tool-agnostic service model and capacity to work with a broad range of inventory sources. In fact, we’re recognized as a Challenger in the 2023 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Software Asset Management (SAM) Managed Services.
If you’re interested in learning more about SAM services and solutions from Insight, here are a couple additional resources to get you started:
Control costs and mitigate risks in your software environment. Learn more about how SAM services and solutions from Insight can improve your technology lifecycle management.
Bob Agno
Sr. Manager, Tech Enterprise Software, Insight
Bob has extensive selling experience in the software industry and leads North America cloud economics and software management at Insight. Prior to Insight, Bob spent 16 years at Microsoft where he held a number of high-profile customer-facing and management roles. Whether it's managing a global team or global account or running the software and cloud solution group for Microsoft’s East Region business, Bob keeps client satisfaction a top priority.
