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Optimise SAM & ITAM for Success - Coggle Diagram
Optimise SAM & ITAM for Success
Uncover IT spend
Sources of spend
Personal Computing
Servers
Virtual Servers
Cloud
IaaS
SaaS
Departmental/Shadow IT
Mobile
Serverless
Containers
Microservers
Devices
Internet-of-things
Laptops
Desktops
Servers
Mobile Devices
Need to break down silos
And integrate sources of truth
Focus on specific vendors
IBM
Oracle
Microsoft
SAP
Adobe
Citrix
Highlight that for others a standard process can apply
Reviewing Contracts
What does the contract say?
Not all contracts from the same vendor are the same
License Terms are vague
Gotchas
Novation
Territorial Use rights
Cloud vs On-prem
Audit clauses
Matching support levels
Contracts/CSIs (e.g. Oracle)
License Position Consolidation
This is not static
Use minus Own over time (need trending)
Requires automation to keep on top of
Data needs to be good quality
Reproducible results (this is where the science comes in)
ELP is open to conjecture because vendor licensing rules are vague
Its a continuum, not a yes/no
Objective
Rapid TTV
What to do in the 1st 90 days
What does your task list look like?
Fundamentals Slide
What and Where of Hardware & Software
What you're entitled to use
Are you over or under?
What's the impact of that?
Audits
Inefficient spending
Employees not having right tools
Shadow IT
Instant spending on subscription services - stop the bleeding
ITAM Lifecycle slide
Note that the landscape is ever-changing
Importance of policies and stakeholders
Go from Discovery to Inventory, subtract entitlements, produces list of Software License Consolidation ideas
Case Study?
Roadmap for first 90 days
Use this as homework?
