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SNOW LICENSE MANAGERLEIGH MARTIN

• Snow overview• Where do I start?• Who is the right person to manage software compliance?• What information do I need to collect? • The day to day management of Software Asset Management

Tools• Future risk

AGENDA

ABOUT SNOW

PRODUCTS & SERVICES

Snow License Manager

Software Recognition Service

Snow Inventory

External Data Provider

Oracle Management Option

Snow SAP Optimizer

SAM Services

Snow Proof of Concept

Entitlement Services

SAM Implementation

Oracle Review Services

Snow Product Training

Snow Software's products are designed to deliver fast ROI, superior data collection & reporting capabilities. From initial deployments through to SAM baselines & cost-reduction programs, Snow offers a range of services.

DRIVERS FOR A SAM PLATFORM

Pay for what you use – remove unused software and avoid unnecessary software investments

Re-harvest software in license pools at end of PC life cycle

Turn local software purchases into company assets

Become legally compliant and avoid audit fines with less effort

Spread costs within the organisation and create local incentives for cost savings

Renew your maintenance contracts based on actual software usage

Avoid piracy and illegal application usage

Consolidate your software estate and reduce maintenance cost

WHERE DO I START?• Entering Entitlement

Roles & responsibilities• IT

• Procurement• Change Control• Software asset manager

• DBA• Security• Finance• Support

WHO IS THE RIGHT PERSON?

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• THE CHALLENGE: A generic ‘SAM Manager’, the fact is that Software Asset Management is rarely a one-man job

• For most organisations, there should be a virtual team of stakeholders from multiple departments (IT, procurement and governance) and business units. Organisations can drive additional value from integrating SAM with other IT systems such as the helpdesk - access to inventory and licensing data can dramatically accelerate resolution times.

SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT TEAM

Technical staffLicense purchaser

License Manager Global SAM owner

Local application owner

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• Adopting the tool• Client roll out / integration• Maintaining Entitlement• Support

(licensing,downgrades etc..)• Agreements / Renewals • Complex Licensing • Pricing

DAY TO DAY MANAGEMENT

DAY TO DAY MANAGEMENT• Pricing

• Adopting the tool• Client roll out / integration• Maintaining Entitlement• Support (licensing,downgrades

etc..)• Agreements / Renewals • Complex Licensing • Pricing• Monitoring Usage

DAY TO DAY MANAGEMENT

WHERE DO I START?• Understanding Usage

• Adopting the tool• Client roll out / integration• Maintaining Entitlement• Support (licensing,downgrades

etc..)• Agreements / Renewals • Complex Licensing • Pricing• Monitoring Usage• Software Library

DAY TO DAY MANAGEMENT

DAY TO DAY MANAGEMENT • Software Library

• Adopting the tool• Client roll out / integration• Maintaining Entitlement• Support (licensing,downgrades

etc..)• Agreements / Renewals • Complex Licensing • Pricing• Monitoring Usage• Software Library• Software Request & Deployments

DAY TO DAY MANAGEMENT

SOFTWARE REQUEST & DEPLOYMENTS

IT departmentMarketing Manager• Budget controller• Sign off

“Professional Marketing user”• Requests Visio Professional

Spare license? Purchase?

DAY TO DAY MANAGEMENT

DAY TO DAY MANAGEMENT

Marketing Manager• Budget controller• Sign off“Professional user”

• Requests Visio Professional

Spare license? Purchase?

IT department• Security• Operations• Support

Reporting• Usage• Costs• Allocation

Approval process• Business justification• Re-charge

Re-harvest? AgreementsWeb?

SOFTWARE REQUEST & DEPLOYMENTS

BE AWARE OF CURRENT & FUTURE RISKS

• MSDN / Dev Software• BYOD• Cloud

• Virtualisation• Web based applications• SPLA• Hosted• AWS/Azure• SaaS

• Audit response

• New License metrics• Mobile Apps • Indirect Licensing• Hardware Licensing• Maintenance • Datacentre

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