Software Audit Process - Episode 2

What are the challenges for organizations? Right. So the challenges are that, you know, all major software vendors have massive portfolios of products and so they're all licensed differently, they use different metrics. So even if we just talk about IBM, you know, you've got numerous different products, they all count them different ways. And so it's hard to set a process internally just to, just to look at that stuff. It's also hard to get accurate data on many products. Right. So you know, a good example or a simple example here is additions of SQL servers, inventory tools quite often don't report whether it's express, standard or enterprise. You know, the difference between free and, you know, 30, 40,000 bucks for a couple of core licenses. And so if you give data over to an auditor that's missing things, they're going to make assumptions. In this case, an auditor will assume a SQL without an addition is actually SQL Enterprise and that can be punitive.