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The Benefits of Data-Driven Software License Management Strategies

Name: The Benefits of Data-Driven Software License Management Strategies
Uploaded: 2024-02-01T05:00:17+00:00
Duration: 23 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin explains that implementing software asset management (SAM) can yield 20–30% savings (as Gartner suggests) but emphasizes that CMDB data…

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Mike Austin explains that implementing software asset management (SAM) can yield 20–30% savings (as Gartner suggests) but emphasizes that CMDB data quality is critical because the CMDB is converted into software licensing tables which inform the organization’s license position. The clip frames poor CMDB data as a common obstacle when adopting SAM tools.

We're going to go get the 20, 30% Gartner says you can get in putting in software asset management. Because we bought the SAM Pro licenses. The first question I asked them is, what is the quality of data on your cmdb? And they're like, why? Why are you asking that? Because it's not good. They know it. Right. And the reason I ask it is that the CMDB gets converted to software licensing tables, which is then how they make a license position.