Maturity of SAM Practice in the UK Market – Perception & Reality of Risk!
This research is sponsored by FAST IiS, which has formed the Software Industry Research Board (SIRB) to assist those involved in evaluating, purchasing and managing software by providing a common resource to determine where your approach stands relative to the market and to best practices.
The research will be conducted on an annual basis. The 2008 researched surveyed 601 IT executives and buyers of software in the UK. This is representative of the UK business market by size of company and investment in software.
This paper is the first in a series of four quarterly white papers that look at software use and software asset management (SAM), quantifying the risks and benefits of different approaches to managing software assets.
75% of organisations claim to have a formal SAM strategy and implementation, but the maturity of the practice is often low, resulting in a false confidence about the level of risk facing the business. Low levels of maturity of SAM practice lead to organisations misallocating resource: being over-licensed and overspending on some software assets and being under-licensed for other assets. Much can be done to improve the approach across businesses as very few organisations can truly claim to have a comprehensive SAM strategy.
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