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

12 Cost Optimisation Strategies for Enterprise Licensing

Are you about to embark on an infrastructure project, or actively looking for ways to reduce cost within your software asset environment? Read our whitepaper to learn more about the common business scenarios and projects that can impact enterprise licensing, our high-level mitigation approaches and ultimately the benefits of software asset management to ensure cost optimisation.

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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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Audit Defence: Best Practice Whitepaper

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: April 15, 2021

The Importance of Enterprise License Software Asset Management

It goes without saying that the next few years will be challenging for many businesses resulting from the pandemic. Looking at 2021 and beyond, we have a mountain to climb to return to normal business...
Webinars: March 15, 2021

The License Impacts of Moving Oracle Workloads to Public Cloud

Oracle licensing is complex, but it need not be a barrier when migrating to Public Cloud. Enterprises using Oracle products may think that, due to the complexity of Oracle licensing, moving Oracle workloads...
Blog: January 18, 2021

Understanding the Full Oracle ULA Lifecycle

Oracle Unlimited License Agreements (ULA) are still a common licensing mechanism used by Oracle Sales and represent a significant revenue generation stream for the vendor.  When effectively deployed,...

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