Software Compliance Quiz
It’s about the money you’ve already invested in your corporate software…
It’s about how much you will invest in this vital asset in the future…
It’s about the potential crippling financial and political costs of non compliance…
Software license management is about savings. From fortune 100 firms to the most basic corporate enterprise: We’re all exposed to the software licensing shell game. We’re all exposed to risk. Consider the following questions. Rate your score at the end. If you have difficulty scoring well, the chances are extremely high that you are losing valuable capital in the software & IT asset management arena. Or, worse, you are risking the credibility of your corporate name. Software Services can help you correct this problem.
- Do I know precisely what software my company uses?
- Do I know how we use it?
- Do I have documented proofs of purchase for all my software?
- Do I have solid factual evidence to support these figures?
- Do I consider my software master media a “controlled substance”?
- Do I negotiate my license and support agreements with a corporate software licensing strategy in mind?
- Do I closely monitor payments for licensing and support?
- Do I track and monitor my software license terms and conditions?
- Do I plan upgrades based on solid hardware, software, and user utilization data?
- Do I select new software based on a formal functional needs analysis?
- Do I have a qualified software license negotiations team (or person)?
- Do I have my software license agreements centrally located and documented?
- Do I pay list price for my software?
- Do I formally audit the software actually present on corporate systems?
- Do I closely control what software is placed on notebook computers?
- Do I have and enforce corporate software policies?
- Did I answer these questions myself? (Or were you forced to ask someone.)
- Do my answers represent verifiable factual evidence? (Or someone’s opinion.)
We’ll consider 17 and 18 to be “gimme’s”. If you scored more than three “no” answers out of the remaining sixteen, your organization has a problem. If the organization has a problem, unfortunately, you have a problem. Essentially, you are either losing or about to lose money.
Controlling costs relating to software investments can dramatically boost your real world ROI. Having access to the fully qualified and experienced Certified Software Managers at Software Services is your first step to savings. Contact us to discuss how we can bring money back to YOUR side of the table!
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