A guide to saving money, making money, and staying in compliance

As a C-level executive and IT and Software Asset Management specialist, I advise and help organizations trying to solve the toughest enterprise issues and reach their peak performance through the most innovative techniques and technology. The purpose of this book is to address the burning challenges and questions that all levels in an organization have, such as struggling to implement business practices to manage IT hard and soft assets that result in control, risk reduction, improved compliance, and savings. This book provides specific best practice advice, tools, and examples that can be used to create new or enhance existing programs, and not provide you with just generic market fluff. You will be introduced to a variety of approaches that can be used immediately to manage IT Asset Management, Software Asset Management, and Software License Compliance within your organization and work with other programs/processes within your organization, that is, service management, risk, and change.

If you are taking a half-hearted attempt at asset management, you will receive only half the answers you require. ITAM is serious business. This book outlines ITAM and SAM best practices and answers fundamental questions about the ITAM and SAM processes and policies. I know you will find this information helpful in formulating your own ITAM and SAM strategies.

IT and Software Asset Management saves you money by:

• Avoiding penalties for non-compliance
• Keeping projects in house
• Having accurate inventory management
• Accessing a system for reharvest-able software
• Utilizing human capital appropriately
• Minimizing cybersecurity risk

IT and Software Asset Management makes you money by:

• Allowing you to focus on your business
• Running operations efficiently
• Increasing productivity where applied
• Focusing on the future versus the past
• Keeping you ahead of the competition

IT and Software Asset Management keeps you in compliance by:

• Ensuring compliance
• Avoiding penalties for non-compliance
• Understanding liabilities
• Putting processes in place for coverage
• Reducing security risk from unauthorized software within the environment