Know exactly what software you have, where it is located, and whether it is correctly and most effectively licensed.
Our Software Licensing and Management Solutions (SLMS) Software Asset Management (SAM) services helps identify exactly what assets you have and helps to ensure they are effectively licensed with proven SAM methodologies.
With our SAM Services, organizations can finally take control of your software and IT assets and maximize the return on your software investment.
Helping customers understand their IT assets
Our SAM Service provides a comprehensive regular inventory of the software installed throughout an enterprise, enabling customers to effectively manage your desktop and server software assets.
Optional reporting and process consulting provides in-depth analysis of areas ranging from license entitlement to SAM maturity assessment and best practice—key requirements for achieving software compliance and optimization of software investment.
Our SAM journey methodology has four main steps:
Step 1 - Plan and prepare
As part of the SAM review, the DXC SAM maturity model will be used to assess your organization's current SAM maturity. A targeted destination, with a plan, is then agreed on together.
Step 2 - Gather trustworthy data
We collect data to address the challenges of understanding the software used and deployed, as well as the licenses an organization owns.
Step 3 - Generate reliable information
Providing accurate reporting can reduce liabilities, create savings and support compliance status.
Step 4 – Enable knowledge-based optimization
This step is aimed at enhancing savings opportunities and driving best practices for the organization.
A variety of service and solution components can be combined to address the specific course your organization needs to take.
Customer benefits
SAM provides many powerful benefits, including:
- Focus on the differing goals and requirements of each customer, ensuring the swiftest return on investment through quick wins
- Cost reduction by highlighting excessive software spend and enabling license re-use/savings
- Risk mitigation relating to external audits and potential penalties
- Modular approach using our proven SAM journey concept to implement a SAM solution in a controlled and progressive way
- Flexible approach with the ability to integrate with an organization's existing inventory tooling
- Support from experienced and specialist SAM and licensing experts at every stage of an organization's SAM journey
Contact DXC SLMS us learn more about our SAM Services.