Asian Network Operations And Software Management - Expert Advice
While many organizations take careful stock of their Asian network infrastructure
, consolidating servers and carefully managing other equipment, when it comes to software it is often a case of 'out of sight, out of mind'.
While information technology consultants and individual departments do their best to make effective use of software and licensing within their scope of operations, if software management continues to be carried out in a decentralized manner, cost inefficiencies and risk increases, and licensing management becomes far more complex.
There is an easy 8-step process that can vastly improve the risk profile, reduce the cost of reduce the complexity of software license management in conjunction with information technology consultants - we look at those steps here.
1.Physically collect your software media and proofs of purchase
This assists in not only giving your software a physical presence (and therefore creating an impetus towards proper management) but is actually the basis of all the following steps. You should gather together in a centralized location:
- License certificates
- Receipts and sales invoices for them
- Associated purchase orders
- The software media themselves
2.Collect the information contained here
Once all the physical elements are gathered together, much like they are in your Asian network infrastructure, you need to use this information to create a statement detailing exactly how many licenses you own, and what the license entitles you to. This is not always as simple as it sounds; some common problems encountered by IT consultants include:
- License expiration dates must also be checked
- Valid initial licenses must be stored along with upgrades
- Transferability of licenses must be checked
- Usage rights must be analyzed - was the license granted 'per user', per computer', or 'per process'?
3.Understand what you are using
The next step is to check what software is actually in use of your company computers or in your Asian network infrastructure, for virtualized software.
4.Assessing software in use
In this step, information technology consultants and Asian network operations experts should analyze whether software use matches licensing provisions; whether any installed software is disused or inappropriate; whether any software constitutes a security risk; whether any software constitutes a stability risk to your network performance management.
5.Compare and contrast
Comparing and contrasting your software usage with your software licensing will give you a complete 'under/over-licensing compliance position' for each application.
6.Update software asset management plan
If you find that software is under/over-licensed or non-compliant, it is not only those particular pieces of software that must undergo remedial steps; it is the entire software asset management process. Most organizations have problems in this area of IT and Asian network operations; your company is not alone.
7.Create procurement policy and processes
Economies of scale are extremely important in software licensing; 100 computers running single users licenses could realistically cost a thousand times more than a single, 100-user license. Your procurement policy and processes MUST be centralized.
8.Create periodic review processes
Of the software itself, and also the new asset management process.
by: Gregory Smyth
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