Alex Woodie published an article in the Register titled “Think enterprise software is complex? Check out the licences“. It looks into the challenges of SAP and Oracle enterprise software licensing for firms. While vendors claim to provide open and transparent pricing and contracts, firms do not believe this is the case. SAP Software Asset Management [...]
The Wall Street Journal CIO Journal published an article on a success story of one of our customers that manages their SAP licenses with the help of the Dynamic Licensing Suite. You can read the article at: http://blogs.wsj.com/cio/2013/05/16/german-retailer-reins-in-sap-costs-with-self-audit-software/?mod=google_news_blog
Came across the April 8, 2013 article in the CIO Journal, “Building a Software Asset Management Team“. This is a very good article from a CIO perspective by the consultants at Deloitte. It paints the classic scenario, the enterprise runs into a licensing problem and needs to respond. But it should have a developed Software [...]
The datasheet for the Dynamic Licensing Suite from Intelligent Licensing is now online. The Dynamic Licensing Suite is a powerful tool to assist Software Asset Management (SAM) practitioners with their SAP deployment. The Dynamic Licensing Suite can help SAM practitioners working on SAP deployments carry out Discovery, Baseline Assessment and Inventory, User Optimization, User [...]
Ritobaan Roy has written an excellent artilce on Software Cost Control for CFOs in CFO-Insight Every month, EMC Europe CFO Steve O’Neill writes on the intersection between the offices of the CFO and the CIO – the things that a CFO should know about IT and how it matters. In this column, Steve highlights computer [...]
THe Changing of the IT Guard….. Digital Natives will reshape IT spending priorities I was reading about a new VC fund created by Mike Brown called Bowery Capital based in New York and San Francisco. The premise and investment thesis is that “Digital natives” are moving up in the ranks of company management and as [...]
KPMG and Intelligent Licensing Partner to Provide Software Asset Management (SAM) Solutions for Enterprise-wide SAP Deployments Walnut Creek, CA — April 25, 2013 – KPMG AG Wirtschaftspruefungsgesellschaft and Intelligent Licensing Corporation announced an agreement between the two firms to jointly address the burgeoning Software Asset Management (SAM) market for SAP deployments. “Enterprises will spend more than [...]
The SAM + SAP Practitioner’s Guide, now available from Intelligent Licensing, is a guide book that provides SAM Practitioners with both an overview and step-by-step instructions on how to carry out key SAM processes using the Dynamic Licensing Suite, including Discovery, Baseline Development, License Optimization, Compliance, Retirement and Recycling. This publication can help bridge the [...]
New SAP Baseline Analysis and Reporting capabilities are now available in the latest release of the Dynamic Licensing Suite. The Dynamic Licensing Suite is the leading Software Asset Management (SAM) tool used for SAP Deployments. SAM Practitioners that carry out a discovery process and build an SAP inventory baseline can now access two new reports [...]
Midnight, Starbucks at El Camino Real and Lawrence, San Jose, California For those that want a glimpse into the unique culture of Silicon Valley, they should look no further than the Starbucks at the intersection of El Camino Real and Lawrence in San Jose, California. There, at midnight you will see a Starbucks with software [...]