Computacenter

Computacenter is Europe’s leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services, enabling customers to maximise the value of IT to their businesses, by offering services and solutions at every stage of infrastructure investment.

Computacenter advises customers on their IT strategy, implements the most appropriate technology from a wide range of leading vendors and manages their technology infrastructures on their behalf. At every stage Computacenter enable customers to minimise the cost and maximise the business value of their IT expenditure.

Corporate and public sector clients are served by Computacenter offices across the UK, Germany, France, the Benelux countries, Spain and South Africa and also through an extensive global partner network.

Computacenter has the largest Software Services Team in the UK, within which there are over 50 accredited professionals, all of whom are paid not on sales but on customer satisfaction

With a Managed Service Culture and extensive breadth of vendor alliance and knowledge, Computacenter offers not just licences but end to end technology solutions.

Microsoft

Software Asset Management (SAM) is a vital set of business processes that provide a system for the effective management and protection of software assets throughout their life cycle. Save money by using what you have and eliminate excess spending by determining your true software needs. Gain peace of mind about viruses and other threats from malware by securing your IT infrastructure. Implement infrastructure optimisation, drive more automation, and empower people to improve their productivity. Plus, make IT a strategic asset to your organisation – one that can help your business grow by providing a strong organisational foundation.

Microsoft’s Software Asset Management team helps customers manage their software estates & licensing compliance with our certified network of partners.

Visit www.microsoft.com/uk/sam for more information.

Trustmarque Solutions

Trustmarque has been providing value added services to customers since it was founded in 1987 and is now one of the UK’s largest Value Added Resellers.  Trustmarque brings together years of knowledge plus a strong track record of delivering successful IT enabled projects for customers that realise positive business outcomes.  Trustmarque delivers solutions across six key areas: Information Security, Infrastructure Optimisation, Managed Licence Services, Storage and Virtualisation, Unified Communications and Business Intelligence.

Trustmarque is also a Microsoft Large Account Reseller (LAR) with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status, as well as partnering with many other major vendors in the IT market, such as: Adobe, Business Objects, CA, Citrix, McAfee, Novell, Nuance, Sophos, Symantec, Trend, VMware and Websense to name but a few.  For more information call 0845 2101 500 or visit www.trustmarque.com

Phoenix Software & Licence Dashboard™

Phoenix Software has emerged as Europe’s leading practitioner of Software Asset Management (SAM) and has successfully completed over 600 projects. Our unique software tools and consultancy services provide an end-to-end solution that has enabled some of the largest companies in the world to establish effective SAM processes and achieve software licence compliance, thereby improving operational effectiveness and reducing IT costs.

With the release of version 4.0, Licence Dashboard™ is now the most mature licence management product available. Without Licence Dashboard, an organisation could spend months establishing its compliance status after working through tens of thousands of discovered software items. The Data Cleanse tool within Licence Dashboard makes this process quicker and easier, ensuring the relationship between licensable installs and actual entitlement is instant and always up-to-date.

By choosing Licence Dashboard, our customers and partners are able to achieve a licence management solution based on the ISO 19770-1 Standard for Software Asset Management. Phoenix Software was instrumental in creating the ISO 19770-1 Standard and our Licence Dashboard product is based wholly on its principles

ABC Enterprise Systems – LanLicenser

LanLicenser, the flagship product from ABC Enterprise Systems has rapidly built a market and is known for its leading-edge inventory, license metering software, whitelisting capabilities and real-time security management capabilities.

The LanLicenser solution enables organizations to reduce their software costs and total cost of ownership by enforcing their software and license policy, and allocating their IT costs more accurately. Its hierarchical architecture enables LanLicenser to fit organizations of all types and size, from a few hundred workstations to tens of thousands. It adds value to other asset management software such as inventory and discovery tools by providing the data required for software cost reduction and compliance.

A market leader in software metering since 1995, LanLicenser had enabled hundreds of organizations from the corporate, government and education sectors to get their software costs under control.

FrontRange Solutions

FrontRange Solutions (which acquired Centennial Software in 2008) is a leading developer of SAM, Infrastructure Management, Service Management and CRM solutions for fast-growing and distributed enterprises. Over 15,000 organizations worldwide depend on FrontRange IT solutions to support their IT operations and business goals of increasing productivity and reducing costs.

FrontRange SAM Suite provides a complete end-to-end solution for organizations looking to improve their software management practices, comprising an intuitive project management tool (FrontRange SAM Essentials), multi-site and multi-platform discovery (Centennial Discovery), license management (Centennial License Manager) and automated application deployment (NetInstall).

Visit FrontRange to see SAM Suite in action and understand how better visibility and control of your software can lead to reducing software spend by up to 20 percent.

Express Metrix

Express Metrix is a 12-year veteran in the software asset management market, focusing its efforts specifically on PC inventory and software metering solutions. Express Metrix solutions provide visibility and control over software assets, enabling organizations to stay compliant with license agreements, eliminate spending on superfluous software, and make informed licensing decisions.

A past winner of the Microsoft’s Software Asset Management Partner of the Year and the SIIA's 2008 CODiE Award for Best Asset Management product, Express Metrix solutions deliver vital information that allows for the efficient management of desktop software–freeing IT departments to focus on mission-critical operations and other strategic initiatives. With a strong emphasis on software license management, Express Metrix leads the market in the areas of reporting, ease of use, and customer support.

Used by over 1,100 active customers, the Express Metrix product line includes Express Software Manager® (Professional and Standard Editions), Express Inventory®, and Express Meter®.

Oracle

We are the world's largest enterprise software company. We develop, manufacture, market, distribute and service database and middleware software as well as applications software designed to help our customers manage and grow their business operations. We also provide support for the Linux open source operating system through our Oracle Unbreakable Linux Support program, which provides our customers with our industry-leading global support programs for Linux.

Our goal is to offer customers scalable, reliable, secure and integrated software systems that provide transactional efficiencies, adapt to an organization's unique needs and allow better ways to access and manage information at a lower total cost of ownership. We seek to be an industry leader in each of the specific product categories in which we compete and to expand into new and emerging markets. In fiscal 2007, we focused on strengthening our competitive position and enhancing our existing portfolio of products and services as well as acquiring and integrating businesses.

Flexera Software

Flexera Software is the leading provider of software licensing, entitlement and compliance management, enterprise license optimisation, installation software, and software packaging solutions. Our solutions are installed in over 20,000 applications used by enterprises so we're uniquely positioned to help them transform the way they consume and manage these software investments. We provide the insight that can save businesses millions in costs and strengthen their relationships with their software vendors.

Flexera Software's FlexNet licensing technology is embedded in nearly 15,000 applications, uniquely positioning FlexNet Software to deliver the industry's most powerful and flexible solutions for enterprise license optimisation (ELO). With FlexNet Manager Suite, IT can plan and budget for future purchases more effectively and procurement teams can conduct fact-based, productive negotiations. Over 400 large organisations have used FlexNet technology to empower enterprise IT and procurement to accurately manage usage, ensure license compliance, and significantly reduce overall software spend on high-value software investments including SAP® Business Suite and Oracle® Database and E-Business Suite.

Visit www.flexerasoftware.com for more information.

BDNA

BDNA’s software provides IT organizations solutions to significantly reduce IT spending. The company’s patented solutions uniquely combine agentless, high-speed and detailed inventory of all software and hardware assets with the industry’s most comprehensive and complete technology repository. BDNA Catalog, inclusive of products, vendors, versions, support information, power consumption and much more, accelerates the success of critical IT projects such as data center consolidation, software license compliance and green IT initiatives through increased certainty, relevance and currency of information.

BDNA is a privately-held company headquartered in Mountain View, California, with sales offices and partners throughout North America and Europe. Our 350 customers are trendsetters in ROI-driven initiatives; they include some of the world’s largest IT organizations, including federal government agencies, pharmaceutical companies and healthcare organizations.

For more information, please visit http://www.bdna.com

iQuate

iQSonar from iQuate continues to prove itself as the leading tool for automated software licensing and usage analysis. Designed specifically to deal with modern, complex IT environments including virtualisation, partitioning and multi-core hardware, iQSonar provides unprecedented levels of accuracy within days.

By automating what was traditionally a manpower-intensive task, iQSonar gives organisations the ability to have real control over their software licensing by providing up-to-date data at their fingertips whenever they need it.

As an Oracle partner, iQuate have built a specific competence in Oracle licensing, but the technology is equally effective in other complex software environments. iQSonar is consistently more accurate than manually conducted audits and has proven this in 100% of Oracle customers who have used it.

Symantec (UK) Limited

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world.

Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored.

More information is available at www.symantec.com.