Computacenter

Computacenter is Europe’s leading independent provider of IT infrastructure services. We can advise customers on their IT strategy, implement the most appropriate technology from a wide range of leading vendors and manage their technology infrastructures on their behalf. At every stage we make our customers’ businesses sharper by removing cost, complexity and barriers to change across their IT infrastructures.

Our corporate and government clients are served by offices across the UK, Germany, France, the Benelux countries, Spain and South Africa. We also serve our customers’ global requirements through our extensive partner network.

Focused on customer requirements for significant and sustainable returns, Computacenter provides integrated point services and transformational licence management solutions which deliver our customers value through reducing costs and management overhead, reducing risk as an outcome.

Computacenter has leveraged its full lifecycle service offerings, service delivery methodology and vendor relationships to become Europe’s leading provider of software licence management services and strategic advice.

http://www.computacenter.com/services-new/propositions/software_lifecycle.asp

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.

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.

Oracle

When a organization makes the effort to understand how it is using its software assets, it reduces its financial, operational, and legal risk exposure. With raised awareness of license management practices, customers and partners may also benefit financially as they implement best practices and controls, manage license capacity and usage, and ensure informed decision-making regarding future IT procurement.

Oracle License Management Services makes it possible for customers to certify their Oracle assets with confidence and reduces the risks associated with a lack of software license management.

Oracle (NASDAQ: ORCL) is the world's most complete, open, and integrated business software and hardware systems company.
For more information about Oracle, visit oracle.com.

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.

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.