The cornerstone for your digital sustainability in future
Software licences now count among the most valuable assets within modern IT landscapes. Licence requirements nevertheless change constantly and quickly. Models and metrics are becoming increasingly complex due to, for instance, software as a service, cloud computing, dynamic scaling and other disruptive market developments. This also means rising requirements for software asset management (SAM). Software assets can entail significant financial, legal and potentially reputational risks for companies. With our advisory and related managed services, we will assist you in making sure that IT assets (including software and right-of-use assets) are dealt with comprehensively and securely while also achieving cost savings.
“With our holistic SAM approach, we will optimise your organisational arrangements for software asset management as well as your software licence portfolio. We will help you achieve complete transparency with regard to company-wide software assets, compliance with terms of use and effective cost control.”
Software Asset Management – how PwC benefits you
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PwC’s SAM approach: from determining the status quo to contract negotiations
Correct and sufficient licencing is the decisive prerequisite for licence compliance at your company. To ensure this, companies must maintain a clear overview of their IT environment, which generally requires the use of tailor-made technical solutions. Complete transparency regarding all IT assets simultaneously makes it possible to identify potential optimisation measures within the IT landscape. Companies can realise significant cost savings through the needs-oriented use and cost-efficient allocation of IT assets.
PwC will assist your company in safeguarding its business interests throughout all phases of software asset management – from organisational structures and the reliable gathering of commercial and technical data through to subsequent advisory services in relation to contractual negotiations. Our objective is to pinpoint the precise needs for software licence assets at your organisation in a holistic manner and to ensure the resulting value contribution is sustainable in future.
Overview: our services for your software asset management
With the assistance of our market proven framework, we will evaluate your organisation’s maturity and guide you to the next level. To do this, we analyse your established processes, individual software portfolio and IT contracts and prepare manufacturer-specific licence inventories. In so doing, we take account of licencing models, commonplace pitfalls and risks as well as accounting and management dynamics among customers. These are the key factors for fresh negotiations with IT providers, achieving savings and ensuring successful results in audits. We will also assist you with the selection of a needs-appropriate SAM tool as well as the related IT services.
“Concealed possibilities for optimisation exist within your IT and software assets. With our tried-and-tested and structured best-practice approaches, SAM Advisory & Services from PwC will enable your company to tap into these opportunities and thus ensure the resulting value contribution is sustainable.”
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