Flexera Software Toolcase for the ITAM Review Tools Day
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The document summarizes an ITAM Review Tool Day presentation by Greg Holmes of Flexera Software. The presentation addresses common license management challenges faced by CFOs, CTOs, CMOs, and CEOs and how Flexera's tools help solve them. It provides scenarios of cost savings identified, impact assessments of infrastructure changes, deploying applications to new business units, ensuring compliance, and accessing license usage data. The presentation promotes Flexera's license optimization solutions and their on-premises, cloud, and managed service delivery models.
Flexera Software Toolcase for the ITAM Review Tools Day
- 1. ITAM Review Tool Day 18th November 2014 Greg Holmes, Solution Engineering Manager © 2014 Flexera Software LLC. All 1 rights reserved. | Company Confidential
- 2. License Management Challenges Terms and Conditions Software Audits Virtualization Cloud Bring Your Own Device IT Self Service © 2014 Flexera Software LLC. All 2 rights reserved. | Company Confidential Complex License Models Global Enterprise Complex Contracts Mergers and Acquisitions M&A PVU, RVU, UVU Processor / Core & Core Factors Named User Server + CAL …
- 3. Business Scenarios – Before & After Flexera! CFO 1. Reducing Costs 2. Controlling Overspend 3. Managing Budgets CTO 1. Operational Efficiency 2. Project Planning 3. Enabling Business © 2014 Flexera Software LLC. All 3 rights reserved. | Company Confidential CMO 1. Business Initiatives 2. Productivity 3. Controlling Costs CEO 1. Compliance & Risk 2. Business Objectives 3. Shareholder Value
- 4. CFO 1. Reducing Costs 2. Controlling Overspend 3. Managing Budgets “Hi Greg, as you’re very aware, we need to reduce costs throughout the organization by 15%. I’ve reviewed every aspect of the business and focused on the IT Budget, especially the Software Spend. I’ve prioritized on our top 3 vendors by spend, and I want you to show me now how you’re going to reduce our spend by more than 15% over the next 3 months.” © 2014 Flexera Software LLC. All 4 rights reserved. | Company Confidential
- 5. Typical Data problems! © 2014 Flexera Software LLC. All 5 rights reserved. | Company Confidential
- 10. CFO Scenario Summary – Cost savings Before Flexera • Manual effort – Preprocessing, Spreadsheets, etc • Counting Installs • Complexity of Licensing Terms and Conditions Since Flexera • Ease of Vendor management – right tools for each vendor • Finding Cost Savings – 25% per vendor • Making a real difference
- 11. “Hi Greg, we’ve negotiated an excellent Hardware Vendor contract and are overhauling our virtualized datacentre. As part of the Project Planning team, I want you to let me know the impact of our proposed changes on any software licensing. Sorry to come to you so late, but it was only apparent recently we needed some help." CTO 1. Operational Efficiency 2. Project Planning 3. Enabling Business © 2014 Flexera Software LLC. All 11 rights reserved. | Company Confidential
- 13. CTO Scenario Summary Before Flexera • Guesswork • Projects out of control – licensing is usually retroactive or as a last thought • Production problems lead to new license cost Since Flexera • Simulation allows to model future use cases with available licenses • No Guesswork • Tactical Use cases & live access to expert information
- 14. “Hi Greg, the new Telemarketing team has been given the go-ahead! We need to get the new office set up for over 200 new employees ASAP. We’re transferring from other divisions and hiring new FTEs. We need to run four new desktop applications which some users need. I do have a rough plan, but it depends on the end mix of staff. IT and Desktops are ready in the next 6 weeks, can you ensure we can deploy the right applications to the right people?” © 2014 Flexera Software LLC. All 14 rights reserved. | Company Confidential CMO 1. Business Initiatives 2. Productivity 3. Controlling Costs
- 16. App Portal – Enterprise App Store © 2014 Flexera Software LLC. All 16 rights reserved. | Company Confidential Software Policy Score: • Engages users in the License Optimization Process • Incents users to help reduce software costs
- 17. CMO Scenario Summary Before Flexera • Separate Teams managing Packaging, Deployment and Licensing • Help Desk Load • Reactive licensing only Since Flexera • Empowered end users • Proactive License management • Reduction in Costs
- 18. “Hi Greg, I’ve just had a very uncomfortable meeting with our new Account Director at MegaSoftwareVendor. He said, due to our recent acquisition of CleverIP Ltd and our new operation in Ireland that we’re out of compliance. I asked him what the potential impact is… he told me its over £3 million. Can this be true? What is our compliance position? Do we need to get our top auditors back in here? You need to get this sorted and the information I need on my desk by Friday, without fail!!!” © 2014 Flexera Software LLC. All 18 rights reserved. | Company Confidential CEO 1. Compliance & Risk 2. Business Objectives 3. Shareholder Value
- 22. CEO Scenario Summary Before Flexera • Need Audit protection partners • Checking vendor results is difficult • Unexpected Costs Since Flexera • Access to live data • Visibility of Shortfalls • Entitlement position is transparent
- 23. What did you see today? Thank you for your attention. Please come and ask us any questions at lunch? © 2014 Flexera Software LLC. All 23 rights reserved. | Company Confidential
- 24. FlexNet Manager Suite Three Delivery Models On-Premises Cloud (SaaS) © 2014 Flexera Software LLC. All 24 rights reserved. | Company Confidential Managed Service
Editor's Notes
- #3: Global Enterprise– decentralized SW procurement– means orgs don’t leverage global EA’s and over-spend on SW. Complex Contract– Product Use Rights M&A– Red flag for audits Audits– 64% of companies have been audited at least once in the past 12 months Virtualization– adds a lot of complexity to license management License Models– there are many different models with complex metrics used to calculate license consumption …
- #25: Note: all FNM Suite products are available On-Premise and Cloud except FNM for Engineering Apps, which is currently available only OP. It will be available Cloud in the August 2014 release.