6 Essential SAM Processes (video)
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Jonathan can’t stand using a spreadsheet to track his Software Assets anymore. He’s having a hard time tracking the software in his growing organization. He isn’t sure how to manage expenditure and is finding it hard to prepare reports. However, he isn’t sure what to look for in a modern Software Asset Management (SAM) Solution.
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Excel | Vizor | |
---|---|---|
Manage IT purchases and maintenance contracts | ✔ Static / Manual |
✔ Dynamic / Automated |
Consolidated list of who has what assets | ✔ Static / Manual |
✔ Dynamic / Automated |
Asset allocation to locations | ✔ Static / Manual |
✔ Dynamic / Automated |
Manage asset loans with checkin/checkout | ✔ Static / Manual |
✔ Dynamic / Automated |
Asset lifecycle management | ✔ Static / Manual |
✔ Dynamic / Automated |
Calculate asset depreciation | ✔ Manual / Complex |
✔ Automated |
Manage device repairs | ✔ Manual / Inaccurate |
✔ Dynamic / Automated |
Report on lost and stolen devices | ✔ Manual / Inaccurate |
✔ Dynamic / Automated |
Multi tenant web interface | — Soiled / Inaccessible |
✔ Centralized access |
Notifications when contracts and agreements are due for renewal | — Reactive |
✔ Proactive |
Custom email notifications and reminders | — Reactive |
✔ Proactive |
Automate actions based on asset lifecycle | — | ✔ |
Asset and software request portal | — Requests lost in email |
✔ Automated |
Automated multi layered approval process | — | ✔ |
Support complex license compliance schemes | — | ✔ |
Detailed hardware inventory | — | ✔ Builtin inventory or via ConfigMr (ECM/SCCM) |
Comprehensive software inventory | — | ✔ Builtin inventory or via ConfigMr (ECM/SCCM) |
Automated employee on-boarding / off-boarding | — | ✔ |
Create accounts and provision software when employees start | — | ✔ |
Disable accounts and recycle licenses when employees leave | — | ✔ |
Role based user provisioning of hardware and software | — | ✔ |
Ad-hoc reporting and search | — | ✔ |
Integration with purchasing systems | — | ✔ |
Integration with Active Directory | — | ✔ |
Integration with Microsoft ConfigMr (ECM/SCCM) | — | ✔ |
Software inventory normalization | — | ✔ |
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