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Consolidating and managing your datacenter and desktop software will result in huge savings in software true-ups, annual maintenance fees,
and audit-related IT costs. Conversely, enterprises that are not actively consolidating their software run a great risk of over paying
software vendors by millions of dollars each year. Major IT initiatives such as virtualization and Software as a Service (SaaS) increase
the risk, as they introduce more complex vendor license agreements such as "named user", "concurrent user", and "virtual machine" that
cause expensive datacenter licenses to be used without controls.
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It is critical that methods exist to track the actual usage of all software inventory. The risk of overpaying is greatly reduced when
enterprises can re-use or retire all unused software, as well as, manage compliance to all software vendor agreements including virtualization and Software as a Service.
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ManageSoft, the leading provider of enterprise compliance management solutions, has created the first online Compliance Risk Assessment (CRA) based
on working with hundreds of enterprises and multiple software vendors on the problem of consolidating software. The CRA is the best assessment tool
on the market for determining quickly (1) if your firm is at risk to software vendor audits and (2) the level of probability that your firm is substantially
over paying software vendors on true-ups and maintenance. The survey is free and takes approximately 5 minutes. A report is generated automatically.
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Authorized User email address |
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Number of Employees |
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Number of Sites with Greater than 500 Employees |
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Employee Growth |
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Global Organization |
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Mergers and Acquistions |
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Reduced Purchase Levels or Stopped Maintenance of: (pick all that apply) |
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Microsoft |
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Adobe |
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Oracle |
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Symantec |
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IBM |
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CA |
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BMC |
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Autodesk |
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Quest |
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McAfee |
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Novell |
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SAP |
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Information Builders |
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BEA |
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Software Inventory Performed |
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Licenses Purchased Compared to Licenses Installed |
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Percentage of Computers Inventoried |
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Software POs & Contracts Maintained |
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Procurement & IT Discuss Software Licenses Terms |
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Types of Licenses: (pick all that apply) |
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Volume |
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User |
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Site |
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Unlimited |
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Subscription |
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Per Processor |
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CALs |
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Virtualized |
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Usage-Based |
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Multi-Core |
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Total Number of Computers |
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Is Purchasing Centralized |
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Estimated Number of Application Titles |
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Software Deployment Control |
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