Manage Module
To achieve and sustain advantages in SAM, organisations need to continue to effectively manage their compliance position and software procurement activities. Bytes Manage set of services provide organisations with the capability and options to address ongoing compliance, procurement and all other SAM requirements.
"Manage" services provide organisations with a range of options to address their SAM requirements over the long term. Services can be tailored to meet the exact requirements of every individual customer with a price point to suit every budget.
Manage services include:
- True-Up Service. Ongoing monitoring of usage and deployment of Enterprise Agreement products to ensure customers are fully aware of potential entitlement and true-up costs.
- Compliance Management. Tracking of license entitlement against actual installations to ensure organisations compliance coupled with advice and guidance to address any deltas.
- Procurement Advisory Service. Coupled with our Compliance Management Service, Bytes can offer either an on or off site service to advise on actual procurement in line with real time compliance information, thus helping to avoid unnecessary expenditure.
- Healthcheck Service. Annual service engaging technical consultants to conduct periodic healthchecks and address any system and organisational shortfalls.
- Contract Management. Collection, scanning, filing and management of all software contracts with online access provided through the Bytes Portal.
- Hosted Media Library. Collection of shrink-wrapped products, scanning and online delivery through the Bytes Portal for authorised users to license keys, license agreements and the downloadable media.
Benefits
Through engaging with Bytes organisations will be able to:
- Avoid budget shocks at Enterprise Agreement True-Up time.
- Understand what products are actually being used that are covered or not by Enterprise Agreements and support decision making in improving buying terms.
- Fully manage compliance for all key vendors over the long term and support procurement and re-harvesting decisions.
- Ensure SAM technologies continue to operate properly and maximum advantage is being taken to support asset management throughout the organisation.
- Gain total visibility of all software contracts with the ability to search and retrieve by vendor, contract dates, keywords, and be alerted to when contracts are approaching their anniversary/end dates.
- Eliminate the headache of tracking down boxed software and associated license keys with software being available instantly at any time in any location.
After Manage what next?
Organisations in a position where they are fully managing their software compliance, procurement and technologies can move onto share pertinent information with key stakeholders around the business through Bytes' Inform services.
A modular approach to SAM providing you with the building blocks to create a roadmap in line with the specific needs and priorities of your organisation. Our experienced SAM consultants and Licensing teams are on hand to guide you through the right route for your organisation.
