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Reducing Software License Costs

Jason Short Sr. Product Manager

Reducing Software License Costs

Joel Smith Principal Support Engineer

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Agenda

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Software Audit Report 1

6 Best Practices to Reduce Software License Costs 2

Collecting Inventory 3

Software Metering Rules 4

Reporting 5

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Software Audit Report

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Software Mega Trends – Software Audits

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Source: Express Metrix 2013 Software Audit Industry Report

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Software Mega Trends – Software Audits

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Source: Express Metrix 2013 Software Audit Industry Report

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6 Steps to Reduce Software Costs

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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs

Common Criteria:

• Software Costs

• Vendor

• Proliferation in the Environment

1. Establish a corporate criteria for IT managed software

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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs

IT Managed:

• Establish easy to access request process

• Define SLA for requests

• Define IT support levels for new software

Non-IT Managed:

• Include planning in department budgets

• Define and enforce an expense reimbursement policy

2. Establish a policy and practice for onboarding IT managed and non-IT managed software licenses

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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs

• Utilize a corporate app stores

– Software Portal

– App Center

– Front Office

• Publish a Software Request process as part of your service catalog

– Workflow

– ServiceDesk

3. Establish easier workflows for end users to get access to IT managed software

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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs

4. Utilize software inventory to understand installed software

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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs

5. Meter high value applications

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• Look to Enterprise Contracts

• Include High Value Applications

• Vendor Audit History

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6 Best Practices to Reduce Software Costs

6. Harvest underutilized licenses

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Demo Custom Inventory and Metering Rules – Joel Smith

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