Current surveys repeatedly show that most companies overbuy licenses for up to 60 percent of their software portfolio and vast sums of money are being wasted on every annual cycle - so why does this happen?

It happens because contrary to widely held assumptions, traditional asset management tools - which purport to provide software licensing data - typically do not distinguish between applications that are merely installed and those that are actually in use. This distorted view of so called 'usage' is the basis upon which software vendors base license fees, and it gives them a huge advantage at the negotiating table.

The good news is that Scalable Software can help you redress the balance, guiding you to pay for only what you truly use. Since 1999, we have helped customer after customer to substantially reduce software costs and bring their IT budgets under better control - sometimes by millions of dollars - with our market leading 'true' usage metering product, Survey™.

This is Software License Optimization. It ensures your software costs are minimized at all times by identifying unused and wastefully installed software which can be recovered from your estate and removed from your cost base.

Now, you may be thinking "I've heard it all before, my Software Asset Management tools give me usage data"

But think again. Despite marketing claims, Software Asset Management products are simply not designed or intended to optimize the use of your software investments. They fail to capture comprehensive and detailed 'true' hardware and software usage intelligence and communicate this to the business in a commercially meaningful way. As a consequence many companies are overpaying simply because they have little or no idea how their software is being used, let alone if it is being used at all and usually agree to costs based simply on what is installed.

Uniquely, Survey™ does distinguish between software that is merely installed and software that is truly in use. With Survey data, customers are able to renegotiate license terms based on actual usage, recover unused licenses and redeploy them to avoid unnecessary new purchases, and recoup maintenance and other costs associated with unused software. Survey customers see year on year savings and in many cases this can lead to reductions in the range of 10 - 40 percent of total software budget in the first year alone.

In a nutshell, with Survey™ you can confidently track true usage and be sure that your software needs and your software bills are optimized - so you can stop gambling with your budget.

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