Mike Austin explains why you can't just set up a Software Asset Management tool and ignore it. Regular manual reviews are essential to catch compliance issues that automated tools miss.
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I think in the SAM world in general, to be honest, this is a big part of the problem is it's what I refer to as set and forget.
So a lot of people go out.
They'Ll get a.
SAM tool, they'll put.
The licenses in, it'll say they're compliant, they'll run a reconciliation, it'll stay they're compliant.
But if, unless.
You reset your licenses, you don't know whether that's the optimal.
Compliance, whether.
You know, there are other things they can do.
And so, you.
Know, even when we are running ServiceNow SAM Pro, let's say, or snow for one of our clients, we're not just taking what the tool says. We're. We're doing these.
Manual requires people look.
Every year to make sure that is still the right way.
Because the.
World changes, right? The, the way their environment changes and all that sort of stuff. So it really is.
You know, it's a lot of, a.
Lot of expertise required to do this stuff, but it's a lot of fun.