Software Asset Management

Treating software as traceable, manageable asset is one of the most challenging aspects of any IT operation. But as software license audits become more prevalent and the tools that software vendors use to detect violations become harder to contest, even the most mature IT enterprises are at greater risk.

The Blazent Intelligence Platform provides a unique set of analytics focused on getting the most from your software licenses, including:

License True-Ups

• Perform your own “self-audit” to determine areas where the organization may be at risk.
• Reconcile data from contracts-to-licenses.
• Reconcile licenses-to-software pools.
• Reconcile software pools-to-software inventory.

License Reclaim

• Identify spending on term licenses for uninstalled and unused software.
• Negotiate reimbursement or new contract from vendor.

License Analysis

• Identify spending on term licenses for uninstalled and unused software.
• Negotiate reimbursement or new contract from vendor.

Licensing Scenarios

• Perform impact analysis on OS migration.
• Analyze licensing renewal costs and/or penalties.
• Identify term licenses due to expire and their impact.

The Blazent Intelligence Platform provides a customizable, repeatable framework for intelligently integrating, cleansing, and normalizing distributed information to create a holistic, actionable business-IT repository. Using proven administration tools and workflows to streamline the processes, Blazent ensures optimal and ongoing data quality for the most accurate analysis. In addition, business analysts and system administrators can quickly perform reconciliation of conflicting data as well as adjust merge rules across sources.