Tools and Supporting Strategies for Software Licence Management

Software licensing is becoming increasingly complex as the ways that businesses consume technology continue to evolve and proliferate. With mainstream adoption of virtualisation and consumerisation, it is clearly becoming more difficult for both organisations and software vendors to monitor what is being used and where.

Licence management and discovery tools can help organisations better understand what licences are available within a company and what software is installed - members have identified building an entitlement data repository, licence number calculation, audit data import/integration and reconciliation as major usage benefits. And those with a maturing software asset management function have been able to prove through the use of tools and dedicated resource that real cost savings can be made and risks greatly reduced, with high levels of compliancy achieved.

Join fellow corporate IT professionals to share and learn from the experiences of others facing similar challenges.  A presentation from software licensing experts SoftwareONE is included.

Improved software identification and reconciliation and the removal of unnecessary or unused software to aid licence cost reduction and control and compliance management.

 The final agenda will be developed through consultation amongst delegates - provisional discussion areas include:

• SoftwareONE: Presentation and facilitated Q&A
• Basic options & selection criteria
• Specific challenges and specialist areas
• Toolset strategy and supporting processes development

• Tools in Practice: Lessons Learned