Software Asset Management (SAM) Discussion

Centennial Software has announced a free one-hour license management webinar designed to help organizations understand the critical aspects of successful software compliance and SAM. The event will look at initial planning, through to the first audit and finally matching up installed applications against recorded licenses.

Find our more about the event here.

Centennial recently launched an initiative called Centennial SAM Academy which is a demonstration of our commitment to help customers to get the most out of their investment in Centennial technology for specific solutions in this case Software Asset Management.

Technology has a role to play in a SAM solution but any customer expecting technology to deliver them SAM will be disappointed. SAM is about technology, people and procesess. We now have technology in market that will automate a lot of the tasks required to understand an organization’s software compliance position and to manage software compliance as part of a SAM solution but without sound processes to complement the technology there is a risk our customers will believe our technology has not delivered.

Centennial SAM Academy should help customers understand what processes they should adopt to ensure success with a Centennial based SAM solution and what SAM Partner services may be required to achieve success.

Centennial SAM Academy is a set of courses aimed at building a customers knowledge of SAM in general but also to give specific guidance using Centennial products in a SAM or compliance project.

The cornerstone of the Centennial SAM Academy is Centennial SAM Essentials .
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Microsoft’s new Get Genuine Windows Agreement (GGWA see http://www.microsoft.com/genuine/) allows big companies that are discovered to be intentionally or accidentally pirating Windows XP Professional to quickly purchases copies via a reseller.
GGWA is part of a recent wave of antipiracy and license compliance efforts that Microsoft is targeting at big corporations, its most profitable segment.

Organisations have largely been exempt from past antipiracy efforts, which focused on software crackers and pirates distributing stolen license keys, resellers trying to save money by reusing the same licence key with multiple customers and consumers.

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SAM specialist Centennial Software has joined forces with Forrester Research to offer a free ‘Getting a head start in SAM’ webinar on October 2nd 2007.   The webinar, featuring guest speaker Evelyn Hubbert, will help organizations understand the importance of Software Asset Management and how to sell it to the board in the wider context of IT Governance initiaitives.

Learn more about this event here.