Organizations spend a huge amount of money on enterprise software. Software asset management (SAM) practitioners still wrestle with time-consuming, inaccurate manual processes hosted in spreadsheets or legacy SAM tools. Optimization is almost a pipe dream – consigned to the back burner by lack of visibility, too little time, and constant fire drills. It’s tough to drive strategic SAM initiatives when you’re scrambling to respond to software vendor audits.

 

Fortunately, next-generation IT asset management solutions are starting to replace traditional SAM tools. These solutions help SAM practitioners to reduce risk, increase visibility, work faster and smarter, and optimize software spend. How do they do this? By leveraging a single system of action – running SAM on the same platform where the rest of IT is managed.

 

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