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Gartner identifies SAM as key to surviving IT spend cuts



Gartner has identified Software Asset Management (SAM) as critical to helping IT organizations survive the current economic troubles. Alongside VOIP, virtualization, security managed services and data center hosting, the analyst firm highlighed SAM as critical to getting IT leaders to think more like CFOs, looking to address areas of inefficiency as well as investing in new technologies to drive savings.

It certainly seems that SAM fits the bill: aiding organizations to realize savings through better use of existing assets, preventing uneccessary spending on duplicate software, reducing the cost of support and maintenance agreements and avoiding the risk of costly compliance fines.

But to be truly effective, SAM requires IT and finance teams to collaborate closely. And this will be the subject of a more ind-depth post shortly.

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