Survey from Scalable Software is an IT Asset Lifecycle Management solution that provides detailed, comprehensive real usage information for the IT assets in your environment. Using Survey, it’s possible to accurately identify unused and under-utilized hardware and software assets, and reduce IT spending by eliminating unnecessary maintenance obligations, reallocating existing software licenses, reducing annual true-up costs, and cutting back on support needs.
Survey also aids in risk management, as it identifies areas of non-compliance with license agreements that can leave your company liable for huge unplanned software purchase costs and fines. Survey’s asset intelligence provides a business view of the computer systems and software that are installed in your organization. The IT asset usage reports provide the insight organizations need to work proactively with the IT and purchasing departments to:
–Typical identified overspend of $400 per desktop by prevention of over-buying software licenses
–Discover budget for unfunded IT projects by eliminating wasteful spending
–Reallocate unused or under-utilized software instead of buying additional licenses
–Reduce maintenance contracts to match actual usage of software
–Track who is using applications in a productive way
–Decide what parts of an enterprise application to customize with real usage reports
–Replace full versions of software titles with read-only versions
–Remove the cost burden of maintaining and supporting under-utilized software and hardware
–Ability to gain greater visibility within your IT environment and have proof of under-used assets
–Ability to negotiate with Software Publishers on a level playing field
–Have the information to survive any software audit
–Achieve accurate compliance with vendor licensing and eliminate potential liability
–Gain fair value for annual software license reviews and true-up negotiations
–Accurately plan your IT budget for the next year and forecast future budget needs
–Plan the strategic migration of new operating systems, applications, virtualization, etc.
–Manage software assets, without letting your software assets manage your budget
