Software Asset Management

Helping enterprise organisations take
control of their software assets.

Talk to our Software Asset Management and Licensing experts to learn more about taking control, quantifying risk, and identifying and optimising opportunities.

Take Control of your Software Assets

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.

Why Version 1?

We will always put the customer first. We are technology agnostic, providing a modular plug & play approach to each set of unique customer requirements. We enable clients to make better, more informed decisions on their software estate; understand the options and make the right decision for you. Our priority is to give the best advice, not just to secure licensing revenue.

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

82% financial risk reduction

Our optimisation expertise helps to deliver financial risk reduction of over 82% on average during audit scenarios.

£17m to £100k

When engaged our customer was facing a bill of £17m, but through our help this amount became £100k

£5.8m identified non compliance risks

During a typical review, we find non-compliance risks of over £5.8m

Market Leading Services

Licence Audit Consulting
Designed to support organisations who are about to be audited or are in the process of being audited by a software vendor.
Our audit services
Cloud Licensing
Version 1 has been working in the cloud for over a decade equipping our SAM experts with both the knowledge and experience to achieve the benefits of cloud computing, removing ambiguity and delivering certainty on software license compliance.
Cloud Licensing
SAM Managed Services
Enables you to maximise and optimise the value you get from your spend. Ensuring that you have full control of your software license estate and giving confidence in your compliance position.
SAM Managed Services

News & Insights
Blog: June 18, 2019

Cloud Economics – Spot Pricing

If you missed the first instalment in our Cloud Economics series, please click here to catch up on our discussion of whose responsibility is it to manage your Cloud expenses and control spend excesses...
Blog, Datasheets: April 24, 2019

Audit Defence Best Practice – Whitepaper

Enterprise application vendors do not design their license policies to be easily understood and customers often find themselves paying for products that they do not require and overpaying for the ones...
Blog: February 27, 2019

An Independent Perspective on Oracle’s “You’re Spending Too Much on AWS” Campaign

At Version 1, our independent and experienced Oracle licensing consultants (covering all aspects of enterprise licensing) provide expertise to customers globally to ensure that they get the best value...

Talk to our SAM & licensing specialists

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