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SAM Tools
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A. You asked about the software asset management (SAM) tool that provides the best bang for your IT buck.
Most of the software asset managers that I encounter will recommend the configuration discovery tool. This product is designed to automatically conduct a review of your precise hardware and software configurations. The goal of the more effective tools is to conduct a rapid and highly accurate audit of your systems, scrub the resulting reams of information, and insert those results into pre-planned reports that provide your software asset managers and technology asset managers with an accurate snapshot of your technology environment.
Be careful, however, with the definition of "configuration." Technicians have an entirely different meaning for this concept than software asset managers or technology asset managers. Unfortunately, companies VERY frequently purchase this incredibly useful tool without conducting effective due diligence on its potentials beforehand. Read on for more details.
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Alan's Blog
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Has your company been hammered by a man-made or natural disaster? If you do not rebuild your technology infrastructure very carefully, you will be re-visited by yet another disaster: This one of legal origin. Your next headaches will be caused by counterfeit or incorrectly licensed copyright protected products loaded on your new systems--and you will not know of their existence until the auditing teams come calling. Even if you are not victim of a disaster--as in simply starting up a new business, you will gain serious cost savings for building a technology infrastructure for your budding company. In these Briefings we give you proven methods for saving money on your new or post-disaster tech purchases while significantly reducing audit risks--both now and in the future.
"The software police and copyright cops just can't wait to audit your company for software piracy and/or license non compliance."
In this Knowledge Briefing Series, Alan Plastow, the founder of The Business Technology Consumer Network, provides you with critical - and very frequently invisible - tips and strategies for reducing costs while protecting your company from software piracy punitive audits and threatened license non compliance litigation.
The so-called software police and copyright cops can -- and do -- offer whistle-blower rewards ranging from (up to) $10,000 to a whopping $1,000,000 in their efforts to locate you. Without the critical software asset management information in this Knowledge Briefing Series, both you and your company are easy audit targets.
"After the financial and personal impact of a disaster, precisely how many people do you suppose will be more than happy to report you or your company in return for a dangled whistle-blower reward?"
The first Knowledge Briefing in the Six Part Series, Natural Disaster Help I, can be found HERE. More to come.
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