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Alan's Blog
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In September, 2007, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) announced
a record anti piracy settlement of over $3,467,000. The claim involved an
undisclosed international media company we’ll call Target IMC. Realistically,
the underlying costs of this single punitive copyright compliance audit event—the
costs you never see published—easily exceeded $10M-$15M. Read on to discover
how your company can be exposed to this type of software piracy audit. More importantly,
we also discuss how Target IMC could have prevented, or at very least minimized, the
financial impact of their ineffective software asset management techniques.
Do you honestly think that the software police and copyright cops aren't aggressively hunting your company for software piracy, license non compliance, and copyright infringement violations? Think again... Read on.
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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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