FREE eBook: Application Rationalisation and Standardisation

 

Highlights of the eBook:eBook APM on tablet

  • Identifying the key topics
  • Creating the technology portfolio with the help of discovery and normalisation
  • Identifying potential rationalisation/standardisation candidates
  • Transparency in the lifecycle of portfolio
  • Making well informed strategic decisions
  • Tracking progress on the realisation of savings

Many organisations are looking into ways to reduce costs. Depending on who you ask within an organisation, different saving potentials will be mentioned. With the annual increase cost for software (licenses), this is one of the first areas for potential savings to come up. In 2016 Gartner published a report¹ on potential savings on software that can be realised by implementing proper Software Asset Management. The report describes seven categories that make up to 30% of potential savings combined.

Categories of potential savings
  • The 7 categories of potential savings, defined by Gartner:
  • Controlled requisition, purchasing & renegotiations
  • Controlled software deployment
  • Applying full product use rights
  • Re-harvesting of non- or under-utilised licenses
  • Recycling of licenses
  • Effective governance for SAM
  • Standardisation and rationalisation of software
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