Many companies are not aware of the high costs of been under and/or over licensed. Some companies over license them self’s with software licenses to avoid legal consequences of been under licensed. They also try to avoid the complexity of a license management.

Therefore a modern license management has to make the existing software environment, transparent and evaluate it. At the same time it must be implemented with relatively little effort, in order to optimize the savings potential. Unfortunately, a formula that calculates how big the actual savings potential are does not exist. But because of our experience with other projects we can evaluate savings potential. More than 30 percent of the once acquired software licenses are no longer used and will not be used again. Through effective management of these licenses, every year significant investment can be saved.

In addition to the savings comes the prevention of unnecessary costs due to too many licenses.

And that's not all. Depending on the implementation type you can take advantage of other savings for the company. The license management can be combined, for example, with software distribution and inventory management. With it, the company achieves a high degree of automation, day after day.

There are enough reason why should deal with the topic of licensing management.

The three stages of the License Management

As already described in the introduction, you must first of all create a modern transparent license management. Only someone who knows how his environment looks like is able to optimize it. At the beginning of each license management project are three levels:

	1. Inventory of the installed Software
	Identification of existing licenses
	3. Compliance Check

Further considerations, only if these three organizational and technical steps are completed, than the results such as functional and economic benefits can be drawn for the company.

More benefits

The potentials can be exploited, once you known what is available. This includes the ability to standardize software environment, reduce the number of products used, obtain updates rather than full versions, to make installation depending on the amount of available licenses, automatically remove software whenever user change to other departments and so on. As more functions you apply from ACMP more benefits the company and the administrators automatically have.