Software
Asset
Management
Reduce Complexity &
Maximise Value
Take Control Of Your Assets
The modern enterprise employee utilizes not only hardware assets, but also a hybrid of Private Cloud, Public Cloud, SaaS, and on-premise products as part of their daily function. Enterprises engage in hardware-, and software agreements with vendors for various technical and commercial benefits. These agreements need regular review and adjustment to verify usage versus entitlement minimizing any potential compliance audit findings.
The Integralis Asset Management Platform, powered by SNOW software, arms customers with the necessary discovery, classification, normalization, and metering of software within the customer’s estate, and more importantly, provides cost optimization capabilities for software agreements such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, IBM, VMware to name a few.
Modern enterprise employees utilise hardware assets and a hybrid of Private Cloud, Public Cloud, SaaS, and on-premise products as part of their daily function. Enterprises engage in hardware-, and software agreements with vendors for various technical and commercial benefits.
These agreements need regular review and adjustment to verify usage versus entitlement minimizing any potential compliance audit findings. The Integralis Asset Management Platform, powered by SNOW software, arms customers with the necessary discovery, classification, normalization, and metering of software within the customer’s estate, and more importantly, provides cost optimization capabilities for software agreements such as Microsoft, SAP, Oracle, IBM, VMware to name a few.
Value Proposition
Reduced Audit
Preparation Time
Present software vendor auditors with the latest and most relevant software asset information to optimize and expedite audit processes.
Risk
Management
Create and manage whitelist or blacklist application profiles and leverage a global AI-driven source of vulnerabilities to identify applications at risk. Applications or data structures with personal info related to POPIA are highlighted and reported on in order to ensure the appropriate measures are put in place.
Technology
Visibility
Discover, Identify, Recognize and Normalize the software in the estate, regardless of deployment architecture (private cloud, public cloud, or SaaS), and report on inventory and metering of software assets.
Spend
Optimization
Provides analysis and recommended cost optimization for specific scenarios and agreements, incl. SaaS platforms. Having full visibility into the software estate, right-sizing recommendations for software agreements are available at renewal time.
Why Integralis Chose
Snow Software
Snow Software is changing the way organisations understand and manage technology consumption. Trusted by over 3,000 Organizations Around the World to deliver on their unique service offering. Having Snow in our portfolio enables us to build a trust advisor relationship with our customers and not just fill the role of a software reseller. Snow provides us with the ability to demonstrate to our customer base that visibility into their contracts, software, and hardware is the best option for their cost-saving initiatives and overall business strategy.
2021 Impact & 2022 Innovation Of The Year Award
Integralis IT Consultancy is honoured to be a part of this prestigious award, as we were the preferred partner, responsible for the architecture, implementation, and support of Snow Software to Sasol over the last year.
Why Integralis Chose
Snow Software
Snow Software is changing the way organizations understand and manage technology consumption. Trusted by over 3,000 Organizations Around the World to deliver on their unique service offering. Having Snow in our portfolio enables us to build a trust advisor relationship with our customers, and not just filling the role of a software reseller. Snow provides us the ability to demonstrate to our customer base that visibility into their contracts, software and hardware are the best option for their cost saving initiatives and overall business strategy.
2021 Impact & 2022 Innovation Of The Year Award
Integralis IT Consultancy is honoured to be a part of this prestigious award as we were the preferred partner, responsible for the architecture, implementation and support of Snow Software to Sasol over the last year.
Frequently Asked Questions
Software Asset Management is the practice of integrating people, processes, and technology to allow software licenses and usage to be systematically tracked, evaluated and managed. The goal of Software Asset Management is to reduce IT expenditures, human resource overhead, and compliance risks that are inherent in owning and managing software assets.
Software, Hardware, Cloud and SAAS applications are mission-critical business assets that every organization relies on daily. Managing these assets has become a necessary task for the IT department; however, it’s also become extremely complex, especially when you add in hybrid environments and complex software agreements. It requires a team of dedicated, extremely knowledgeable individuals to drive cost reduction and optimisation within your organisation.
There are multiple methods of capturing SaaS details and depending on your goals and technologies in use, some may be more appealing than others. Before you can find the right SaaS discovery method for your organization, it’s important to learn why finding out your organization’s true SaaS application usage is important. Reducing risk, removing complexity and optimizing cost.
SAM is becoming more important to organisations, and is a vital aspect towards organisations successes. Any member of the organisation that uses a computer, device or piece of software is a consumer of SAM. These users are using a product or device that falls under the management of the SAM discipline, so organisations have a duty to have clear, defined, and dynamic processes.
Yes, at its core, Software Asset Management is the practice of ensuring compliance with the legal agreements set forth in publisher-user software contracts, SAM is your organization’s best defence against complex environments and expensive audits.
- Secure high-risk endpoints first, with both high access to PII AND critical vulnerabilities.
- Streamline compliance reporting with a full view of apps designed to hold personal data, and their use within your organization.
- Speed up remediation within restrictive timeframes mandated by data privacy regulations.
- Improve information accuracy.