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.