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Unlock Your Full Potential of ServiceNow SAM Pro | Best Practice ITAM Governance #ServiceNow #ITAM

Name: Unlock Your Full Potential of ServiceNow SAM Pro | Best Practice ITAM Governance #ServiceNow #ITAM
Uploaded: 2024-11-05T19:45:00+00:00
Duration: 32 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: This is a short excerpt from a YouTube conversation (hosted by Mike Austin) about building Software Asset Management (SAM) programs. The speakers note…

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This is a short excerpt from a YouTube conversation (hosted by Mike Austin) about building Software Asset Management (SAM) programs. The speakers note that many organizations begin SAM efforts focused on license optimization — comparing owned licenses to deployments to reclaim excess — but they argue the greater value comes from understanding actual needs so organizations can reduce licenses by matching functionality to true requirements.

Now, a lot of organizations, when they.
Start down these.
SAM programs, kind of start with just the blue and the yellow circles here, and they're doing what.
I would say is license optimization.
So they're looking at what they own and what they deployed, and they're trying to get rid of excess licenses and things like that. And there's definitely, you know, fruit on that, so to speak. But the true value is when you really understand what you need so that not only can you reclaim licenses, but you can start reducing, reducing licenses based on functionality.
Or optimization.
And things like that. And so this is really what people are trying to do when it comes to, you.
Know, cost optimization.