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Strategic Software Asset Management (SAM)

If you’ve tried traditional IT asset-management, chances are you’ve dealt with its painful shortcoming firsthand: the inability to understand the true nature of software licensing – the entitlement. A copy of Microsoft Word is a copy of Microsoft Word, without any differentiation.

Entitlement-based Software Asset Management solutions focus on the holistic picture of the license and entitlements – not just physical inventory. They match the granular SKU of the installed software with an up-to-date, centralized catalog of software products and metadata pulled from corporate purchasing systems.

Through entitlements, automated SAM recognizes the Microsoft Word installation is actually Microsoft Word 2007, part of a license for Microsoft Office 2007 Professional procured through an Open License Agreement. By sifting through the “license forensics,” entitlement-based SAM solutions can identify multi-use rights, upgrade/downgrade rights, permissible regions, and more.
 

iET License Entitlement Center Focuses on What Matters - the Entitlements

iET License Entitlement Center is a Web-based strategic solution for SAM that inherently understands, tracks and reports on the enterprise’s license entitlements. Organizations gain real-time access into their global software asset management inventory, in-depth contract monitoring capabilities and the ability to mitigate audit risks through license compliance.