Software Asset Management

Software Asset Management

Find out how to take control, quantify risk, identify and optimise opportunities for your Software Assets

Take Control of your Software Assets

Why choose Version 1? We will always put you, the customer first. We are vendor agnostic, providing independent licensing advice and guidance on a broad range of enterprise vendors with sophisticated levels of expertise on Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM to name a few. We can support you in making better, more informed decisions on your software estate; ensuring you understand the options to make the right decisions to deliver reduced cost and risk, and ongoing license compliance.

Reduce Cost & Risk
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  • Advice
  • Procurement
Trusted Advisor
  • Independent
  • Tools Agnostic
  • Experience
Market Leading Expertise
  • Breadth & Scale
  • Technical Background
  • Ongoing Staff Education

The Complexities of Software Asset Management in Six Segments

Software Asset Management (SAM) Methodologies are critical to managing software cost, compliance and risk, but why does it have to be so complicated? Managing a large software enterprise estate is inherently complex and requires the necessary best practice processes to deliver financial benefit. Watch our video on why SAM is complex (and needs to be!) and the benefits of a thorough SAM methodology.

Why Choose our Licensing Solutions?

82% Financial Risk Reduction
Our optimisation expertise helps to deliver financial risk reduction of over 82% on average during audit scenarios.
Reducing £17m to £100k
When engaged our customer was facing a bill of £17m, but through our help this amount became £100k
High Customer ROI
On average, the cost of our license optimisation services is only 2% of what we generally save for our customers.

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Key Considerations and Preparation Strategies for Vendor Audits

Are you facing an audit? Fear not, our Software Asset Management team are here to help. With years of Audit Defence experience, this guide will help you with best practice advice on preparing for a license audit, gaining control, ensuring there are no surprises and planning for the future

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Why Choose our Software Asset Management Solutions?

£10 Million Saved
Our SAM Service Team’s expertise delivered a cost avoidance opportunity of just under £10m for our enterprise customer
Reduced £5m to £60k
Our SAM Managed Services delivered Database license reduction for our client from over £5m to just under £60k
69% Reduction
Our software asset management services deliver financial risk reduction of 69% on average over the lifecycle of a managed service.

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Version 1 Software Asset Management (SAM) Managed Services

SAM is particularly important for large complex enterprises looking to minimise capex spend and optimise license reuse. Version 1’s SAM Managed Service Team has been delivering SAM Managed Services for over 20 years, helping them to reduce risk and cost in their license estate on an ongoing basis. Find out more in our guide.

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Delivering favourable governance...

and optimisation outcomes for Telefónica UK as a trusted SAM adviser.

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Version 1's: DIAGNOSIS Service

Driving down IT costs, the threat of vendor audit, the need to refresh your infrastructure. These are just some of the challenging questions facing organisations when determining software asset management risk and opportunity. DIAGNOSIS is a rapid, high-value service designed by our expert team to help provide the answers.

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SAM News & Insights
Blog: December 1, 2022

IBM License Optimisation & SAM Services

The Version 1 SAM team has deepened their expertise in IBM license consulting and software asset management, formalising its IBM license advisory services for 2023.  Given the reports of increasing audit...
Downloadable Content, Whitepaper: August 26, 2022

Cloud Cost Optimisation | Adopting FinOps in your Business

As the interest in large-scale cloud adoption rises, so do the questions around spend that many customers face pre-adoption. Cloud technology platforms continue to offer considerable business advantages....
Webinars: October 12, 2021

Enable Software Procurement ROI with Microsoft CSP

Learn more about the financial and operational benefits of Microsoft CSP and how it benchmarks against traditional licensing programs. Microsoft Cloud Solution Provider (CSP) is a modern-day licensing...

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