SAMLITE - Software Asset Management Singapore

SAMLITE 4.0
For most organisations, technology assets such as servers, desktops, and the software installed on them is a significant investment. Typically organisations understand how to manage physical assets, such as servers and other network devices. However many organisations struggle to find effective ways of managing other electronic assets, such as software in a cost effective manner.

SAMLite Version 4 is perfect for Software Asset Management

Secure your environment. Identify risky installations and ensure usage of important software patches.

Manage legal liabilities and license compliances. Detect software installations and removals. Track the use of illegal and unauthorized software.

Reconcile Software Procurement. Match software purchases with software currently in use in a single click

Comprehensive Reporting. Use the search capabilities, graphical reports or simply export to Microsoft Excel to create the report that you need

Plan your software usage. Reliably use SAMLite data to plan for software upgrades, maintenance programs and purchase budgets

Traditional methods of auditing and controlling software like other assets is labour intensive and expensive. Many of the more sophisticated automated solutions are expensive and complex to install and maintain.

Enter SAMLite, a solution developed to take away the pain of managing software, in an easy to deploy and easy to administer manner. Developed in 1999, the objective of SAMLite was to give organisations an alternative to tedious physical auditing methods, and expensive and complex software methods.

SAMLite typically takes less than a week to deploy and capture the installed software data on all desktops and servers. Because there are no active agents installed on your machines, you can rest assured knowing that it will not impact any existing applications. SAMLite a solution developed to take away the pain of managing software, in an easy to deploy and easy to administer manner.

Developing since 1999, the objective of SAMLite was to give organizations an alternative to tedious physical auditing methods, and expensive and complex software methods.

FAST, UNATTENDED AUDIT COLLECTION.
SAMLite is a lightweight solution that caters for rapid deployment with simplicity in mind. It has all the core implementation of software asset management functions.

AUTOMATED MACHINE AND SOFTWARE DETECTION.
SAMLite will allow for on demand inventory of PCs, Servers and software installed. This function is useful beyond software asset management as it returns relevant information for new systems development and deployment.

CLASSIFICATION OF DATA INTO VIEWS.
The SAM Administration Console caters for classification of data into views for easy and relevant. Machines can be classified into Departments and, Software can be classified into categories or by manufacturer in a simple select and assign function.

ASSIGNMENT OF COST TO SOFTWARE.
SAMLite provides IT managers with an interface to assign software cost associated with each piece of software. Reports on software investment by either departments or at an enterprise level can then be generated.

TRACKING OF SOFTWARE PURCHASES.
Purchases of software can be centrally tracked together with license information through SAMLite. This solves the common problem of not knowing now many copies of a particular software has been bought and the problem of not knowing its associated license and CD-KEY information.

TRACKING OF SOFTWARE INSTALLATIONS AND REMOVALS.
Both authorized and unauthorised software installation and removal can be detected using SAMLite. This provides IT managers with a database of what software is authorized to be installed on which machines.

RECONCILIATION REPORTING.
Based on the automated software discovery feature of SAMLite, and data from the software purchase and installation/removal tables, the solution can generate a reconciled report describing the real environment of how many unauthorized installations (and removals) were made and the cost associated to that.

INTUITIVE ADMINISTRATION CONSOLE.
The SAM Administration Console is designed with ease of use in mind. You can simply browse and drill down on a what software is installed on a particular machine or browse and drill down on where a particular piece of software has been installed on. This enables administrators and management instant information how many copies of a particular piece of software is installed at any time.

SAMPLE POLICIES AND PROCEDURES FOR SOFTWARE ASSET MANAGEMENT
SAMLite provides much more than many of the software auditing tools currently on the market, because it covers the entire software management lifecycle, from software procurement, through to installation, monitoring, and eventual removal of software. The product includes a comprehensive package of Software Asset Management policies and procedures as a "value add", however are not necessary to follow if an organisation simply needs to deploy an effective software auditing tool.