Why you need to link licensing tools to HR
Summary
The report noted: “These will also be the same companies that view software vendor audits as an occupational hazard, and can’t progress with IT projects because meagre resources are diverted to answering numerous questions from those same audits.” In its latest Magic Quadrant , Gartner said IT departments tend to use SAM tools for managing software entitlement, instead of using spreadsheets, because of the rising complexity of software-licensing schemes. Read more about SAM We discover how software asset managers are coming up with new ways to give employees freedom and flexibility while keeping the ability to easily audit what is being used on-premise and in the cloud. As Computer Weekly has reported previously, a study from Densify revealed that more than 40% of respondents said they had overspent on public cloud, while 32% admitted they did not know if they were overspending. Experts generally agree that it is a good idea to keep track of the consumption levels of the various cloud instances being used in a business.