A recent study by Gartner warns that software license prices can
go up by 50% by 2006. It goes on to add that "the big organizations
will be less exposed, but the ones really exposed are the small
and medium businesses". Its always prudent to be proactive in
a sensitive, legal issue such as software licensing and in view
of such a trend being forecasted, its all the more important that
you track your software licenses properly. ServiceDesk Plus offers
you a compulsive offer by tracking software licenses and letting
you know the number of over-utilized or under-utilized licenses
across your organization.
With ServiceDesk Plus,
- Track your company's software licenses to maintain compliance
- Plan and optimize your software license purchases and
- Re-use unused software licenses
License Tracking
End users install software themselves, share software with colleagues
and download files from the Internet. Combine this with decentralization,
multiple software versions and varying types of license agreements,
tracking software license compliance can become a nightmare. With
ServiceDesk Plus, track all the software across your organisation
and find out deployed unlicensed software.
Optimized Software Licensing
Knowing the number of copies of a software that are installed
across your organisation versus the number of copies you have purchased
are the two vital points needed for software license optimization.
Combined with this, a knowledge about whether the software installations
are growing or shrinking and whether your end users are becoming
more or less dependent on a particular software can help you a lot
in optimizing your software purchases. ServiceDesk Plus discovers
and lists all the instances of a particular software across your
enterprise.
Re-use Unused Software Licenses
Most of the time, a person involved in some specific work may need
a software for some amount of time. Once her work is finished, the
software lies unutilized in her machine. Using ServiceDesk Plus,
redeem such unused software now & redeploy it in machines where
required. You can cut costs by reusing such licenses and not buying
new ones.
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