The UK Software Management and Licensing Conference
Software Industry Research Board (SIRB), a leading advisor on Software Licence Management, is bringing together industry leaders from the Software community to share success and experience and further your knowledge and progression of effective licence management processes, policies and procedures.
21ST April 2010 – Madejski Stadium, Reading RG2 0FL
DISCOUNTS AVAILABLE FOR ONLINE BOOKINGS UNTIL XX XXXXX 2010
An opportunity for you to take advice from experts to practically achieve your required goals for Software Asset Management (SAM)
Research* shows that an over whelming majority of UK organisations are failing to address all areas of SAM management. The Software Industry Research Board is bringing together your peers, industry leaders and customers with successful SAM stories, to share with you their knowledge and experience so that you can work even more effectively to achieve all your SAM goals.
Who should attend?
CIOs, IT Directors, IT Managers, Compliance Officers, Internal Audit Leaders, CFOs, Financial Directors, CPOs, Purchasing Specialists, Procurement Directors & Managers, Strategists & Technicians responsible for SAM, corporate compliance, governance & risk.
What you will hear and learn about:
- BBC IT Journalist XXX will share with you...
- An executive summary of recent findings from IDC SAM research project, with results you can use to support any SAM business case
- Licensing requirements for both SaaS and the Cloud
- Milestones to move up the SAM maturity curve and reap the extended benefits
- Real world customer experience demonstrating how to get to grips with effectively managing your licenses
- Achieving the ISO SAM standard in stages
- IT Software Asset Management & Beyond
- Building a business case for SAM
* SIRB 2009/10 research project conducted by IDC
Of the 600 UK organisations surveyed:
- An overwhelming majority are failing to address all areas of SAM
- Most are continuing to expose themselves to the higher costs associated with over-purchasing and also liability for licence overuse
- A majority are merely dabbling in SAM and not exploiting their ROI and realising true benefits
- Only those that identify themselves as more mature with regards SAM are recognising ROI, making cost savings of up to 20%
This event is aimed to provide knowledge and share experience to address specific barriers that can hinder the progression of SAM maturity. SIRB aims to offer advice and guidance to overcome the issues and define the steps to achieve an effective SAM programme that delivers a return on your investment.
Agenda
Time
9:30 KEYNOTE 1: Guest speaker All deligates Potential speakers: Joshua Rosenberg Ian King Humphrey Walters
10:00 KEYNOTE 2: SAM Maturity in the UK Market – 2010 UK Research Alex Hilton – Chairman, Software Industry Research Board (SIRB)
An over whelming majority of UK organisations are failing to address all areas of Software Asset Management. The SIRB annual survey of the UK commercial and public sector organisations is designed to understand changing attitudes, practices and perception of the issues surrounding effective software asset management. The speaker will share those results, drawing conclusions and providing advice for best practice adoption to assist organisations in mapping their current maturity and the key steps needed in any business to ensure control is achieved and maintained.
10:30 Coffee break – 30 minutes
11.00 WORKSHOP 1: tbc
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11.00 WORKSHOP 2: Considerations for outsourcing your SAM programme
Many organisations lack the resources, skills or time to develop and run a mature SAM process internally. This session will work through the key considerations when looking to advance your SAM maturity including options for outsourcing or using a managed service provider.
11.00 WORKSHOP 3: Achieving ISO SAM In Stages
ISO SAM for processes (“dash 1”) has been around for over three years. While considered good for its comprehensiveness, it has been viewed as too ambitious by some organizations. It is therefore now being revised to allow attainment in tiers, with no requirement to proceed further than an organization wishes. The first tier is for ‘trustworthy data’, also sometimes called ‘repeatable license compliance processes’. This session will give an overview of the proposed update, including what is covered in each tier. The session will also briefly cover other ISO SAM developments, including “dash 2” for software identification which has recently been published.
11.00 WORKSHOP 4: Key requirements and milestones to move up the maturity curve
12.00 WORKSHOP 5: Next Generation SAM – bringing it all together – reducing software spend costs whilst improving user satisfaction
The capability of SAM has come a long way from simply identifying what software is installed on machines within an organisation. Customers are now realising the benefits and additional cost savings of using integrated technologies that work together to achieve advanced SAM process automation and seamless software harvesting. Understand how your users can be supported for their application requirements through a self-request service catalogue, whilst integrated technologies such as software inventory, software usage, software catalogue, software virtualisation and software delivery work together to deliver a cutting-edge SAM service within an organisation.
12.00 WORKSHOP 6: Moving beyond Asset Management.
FrontRange will discuss how organisations can consider the key milestones to develop their IT maturity beyond Software Asset Management. Focusing on an overall service management strategy in either a premise of SaaS environment. He will outline the IT lifecycle designed to improve service levels and productivity, deliver best practices and standardization, and align IT to the delivery of business value.
12.00 WORKSHOP 7: SAAS and Cloud Computing within your software strategy
Significant increases in rapid deployment SAAS and cloud based offerings. This session will look at key drivers for using SAAS in your software strategy and factors which will affect choice to consider and manage SAAS in your environment.
12.00 WORKSHOP 8: Developing business case for SAM
13.00 Lunch - 1 hour
14.00 WORKSHOP 9: SAAS and Cloud Computing within your software strategy
Significant increases in rapid deployment SAAS and cloud based offerings. This session will look at key drivers for using SAAS in your software strategy and factors which will affect choice to consider and manage SAAS in your environment.
14.00 WORKSHOP 10: Developing business case for SAM
14.00 WORKSHOP 11: Achieving ISO SAM In Stages
ISO SAM for processes (“dash 1”) has been around for over three years. While considered good for its comprehensiveness, it has been viewed as too ambitious by some organizations. It is therefore now being revised to allow attainment in tiers, with no requirement to proceed further than an organization wishes. The first tier is for ‘trustworthy data’, also sometimes called ‘repeatable license compliance processes’. This session will give an overview of the proposed update, including what is covered in each tier. The session will also briefly cover other ISO SAM developments, including “dash 2” for software identification which has recently been published.
14.00 WORKSHOP 12: tbc
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15.00 WORKSHOP 13: Moving beyond Asset Management
FrontRange will discuss how organisations can consider the key milestones to develop their IT maturity beyond Software Asset Management. Focusing on an overall service management strategy in either a premise of SaaS environment. He will outline the IT lifecycle designed to improve service levels and productivity, deliver best practices and standardization, and align IT to the delivery of business value.
15.00 WORKSHOP 14: Considerations for outsourcing your SAM programme
Many organisations lack the resources, skills or time to develop and run a mature SAM process internally. This session will work through the key considerations when looking to advance your SAM maturity including options for outsourcing or using a managed service provider.
15.00 WORKSHOP 15: Next Generation SAM – bringing it all together - reducing software spend costs whilst
improving user satisfaction
The capability of SAM has come a long way from simply identifying what software is installed on machines within an organisation. Customers are now realising the benefits and additional cost savings of using integrated technologies that work together to achieve advanced SAM process automation and seamless software harvesting. Understand how your users can be supported for their application requirements through a self-request service catalogue, whilst integrated technologies such as software inventory, software
usage, software catalogue, software virtualisation and software delivery work together to deliver a cutting-edge SAM service within an organisation.
15.00 WORKSHOP 16: Key requirements and milestones to move up the maturity curve
16.00 Coffee break - 30 minutes
16.30 Summary session - all deligates
17.00 Exhibition
17.30 Conference close
Who should attend?
CIO’s, IT Directors, IT Managers, Compliance Officers, Internal Audit Leaders, CFO’s, Financial Directors, CPO’s, Purchasing Specialists, Procurement Directors and Managers, Strategists and Technicians who are responsible for software asset management, corporate compliance, governance and risk.
Discounts available for online bookings. £295 for the first delegate and £225 for each additional delegate. The full price is £350 for the first delegate and £300 for each additional delegate. All prices are exclusive of VAT.
Don’t forget numbers are very limited.
Exhibitors
Time and place
Tuesday 12th May 2009
from 9am to 5.30pm
The Customer Briefing Centre –
Chicago 1 & 2
Microsoft UK Limited
Microsoft Campus
Thames Valley Park
Reading RG6 1WG