When the sudden onset of the coronavirus pandemic upended the way we do business a little over a year ago, how quickly did your company move from an office to a work from home workforce? Did you accurately keep track of the software licenses deployed as part of the move? Did you stay within the agreed terms of all of your licensing agreements, and can you accurately account for what is deployed today – and to whom?
Are you prepared for the COVID 19 Software Audit(s)? Click To TweetSome companies turned to virtual technologies, and others purchased additional physical devices to meet their employee’s work from home needs. Regardless of the approach, license compliance may or may not have been a concern at the time, but very well could be in the future. The good news is that what may have been done to keep things afloat is in the past, and now is the time for companies to start preparing for the future.
Knowing what you own, what you have deployed, and what you are using is key, as software publishers may see this as an opportunity to help you right-size or true-up what you have deployed.
Cask’s IT Asset Management team can implement an ITAM solution that can pull together the necessary data for both hardware and software to better position you for those potential license audits or verifications.
Whatever your company’s return to normal looks like, processes will need to be developed and implemented to address logistics and to ensure all your company’s hardware and software assets are accounted for and meet legal requirements of their use.
Partnering with Cask to implement an ITAM solution that fits your organization will help ensure you are deploying and using the right resources to stay within your legal usage rights.
Effectively managing your company's assets can mean significant savings in reclaiming unused hardware and software. Click To TweetUtilizing the crawl, walk, run method, Cask will work to understand your processes, refine them, and then help automate them by leveraging the ServiceNow platform. Our team will help guide you through an ITAM implementation that adequately reflects your current software use and availability, as well as a solution that will help you react more quickly in the future.
