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7 Steps to Successfully Managing a SaaS Subscription Renewal

Managing any type of vendor contracts requires careful attention to detail, and SaaS contracts are no exception. If you’re tasked with handling the upcoming renewal for a SaaS contract, it might seem …

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Gartner Report: Cut Software Spending Safely with Software Asset Management (SAM)

A few months ago, Gartner published this report: Cut Software Spending Safely with SAM Organizations can cut spending for software licenses by as much as 30% by implementing the three software license…

December 20, 2016 Flexera

Track These Software Asset Management Program Metrics for Success

(Image source: Spectrum Scoreboards)   Nobody plays a sport and doesn’t keep score. But plenty of organizations implement a software asset management and license optimization program without any …

November 11, 2016 Chris Grinton

Recommended Hardware Asset Management Practices to Support SAM

To be effective in managing and optimizing software licenses, Software Asset Managers require accurate information about the state of hardware assets within their organization. A Software Asset Manage…

November 3, 2016 Flexera

Microsoft Windows Server License Management

Many organizations own and deploy multiple editions of Microsoft Windows Server operating systems in their environments.  However, many often struggle with efficient tracking and management of th…

September 2, 2016 Eric Cassens

An Alternative Solution for Managing IBM Sub-capacity Licensing

From the IBM Passport Advantage webpage, we see that “Sub-capacity licensing lets you license an eligible software product for less than the full capacity of your server or group of servers. It provid…

July 18, 2016 Flexera

OMB’s New FITARA Guidelines for Software Asset Management: The Federal Government Got it Right

The federal government spends more than $6 billion per year on software.  Without a government-wide Software Asset Management strategy in place, Flexera estimates that as much as 25 percent of that software spend – or $1.5 billion – is wasted annually. That waste occurs because software is a fundamentally complex and difficult asset to manage.  Without Software Asset Management (SAM)/Software License Optimization people, processes and technology …

June 3, 2016 Jim Ryan

How will Microsoft licensing for Windows Server 2016 affect you?

At the end of last year, Microsoft confirmed what many had believed for some time—it will be transitioning its Windows Server operating system from the once simplistic device based licensing model to …

May 17, 2016 Flexera

SAM and Governance – The Road to Hell? (Part 1)

Michael Gerrard, Research Vice President at Gartner has written that “IT governance addresses two major topics: demand governance (“doing the right things”) and supply-side governance (“doing things r…

April 14, 2016 Flexera

I have an ITSM solution, why do I need a Software Asset Management solution too?

Many of the enterprise customers we work with already have, or are in the process of implementing, an IT Service Management (ITSM) solution such as BMC or ServiceNow. IT Service Management is focused …

February 2, 2016 Flexera

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