Challenges We Solve

Managing the complexity of cloud licensing is an ever-growing challenge. We help you to optimize your cloud deployments and take back control of cloud spending.

Cloud Asset Management - Optimize your Cloud expenses

SAMworx enables organizations to control Cloud spending, whether public, private or hybrid. We help you to develop a Cloud strategy adapted to your business challenges and your resources.

Many organizations do not know how much they are spending on software. We help identify and optimize your licenses and usage.

Optimizing your licenses and usage

Given the increase in IT spending and the need to finance digital transformation projects, optimizing software licenses and SaaS usage has become a central concern.

Optimize software licenses and SaaS usage

SAMworx’s mission is to provide CIOs and procurement departments with the means to reduce spending, especially on OPEX (maintenance, SaaS subscriptions, cloud subscriptions, services).

How do we do this?

We use algorithms developed by our R&D team, combined with our in-depth knowledge of publisher techniques (pricing, contracts, benchmarks, negotiation tactics, calculation rules, etc.), to provide you with powerful optimization levers.

Based on an analysis of your existing situation and future needs, we identify ways of optimizing spending by using both internal customer levers (choice of products, control of usage, choice of equipment, allocation of licenses) and market levers (negotiation, retendering of contracts).

Fear of non-compliance is understandable, given the complexity of licensing rules and the aggressive tactics of publishers. We give you a clear picture of your compliance so you can take action.

Software compliance analysis

SAMworx is a leader in Software Asset Management, with deep experience serving government organizations, large enterprises, mid-sized companies and SMEs. Using our proven agile SAM methodology, we can support CIOs and procurement departments with all publishers on the market.

Supporting you in managing your software assets

Completely independent from publishers, distributors and auditors, SAMworx is a leading player in Software Asset Management. Our teams work both on a flat-rate basis and on a full-time or part-time basis at our customer sites. For a long-term service, we build and operate SAM Competence Centers or SAM Managed Service systems that are tailor-made to suit the needs of our customers.

SAM tools are essential for an automated approach to SAM. But many SAM projects fail because organizations lack the expertise to use SAM tools effectively. We can help.

Software Asset Management tools

SAM tools are an essential building block of an automated approach to SAM. Multiple combinations of tools are possible, including free tools from publishers, tools already existing within your information systems, and tools dedicated to Software Asset Management. Tools allow you to have exhaustive, standardized data, and some tools enable you to process this data to optimize your compliance.

How to build an effective SAM capability? We help you define your optimal organizational structure, governance and processes.

Software Asset Management Organization and Processes

Given the expanding number of publishers, the challenges of maintaining expertise, and the need to integrate SAM tools, Software Asset Management is becoming more professional, requiring an efficient organization and robust processes.

Define and implement a structure for Software Asset Management

Poor SAM organization means increased costs and lost productivity. This is why since our creation, SAMworx has helped CIOs build effective SAM organizations.

How?

Our team has developed a scoring model to analyse the efficiency of your SAM organization and identify risks. Our knowledge of best practices allows us to understand and anticipate your challenges and to support you with decisive and effective change. 

If you are already mature in SAM but you need to supplement your SAM capabilities with our expertise, we can help.

Advanced SAM Services from SAMworx

SAMworx has an “Advanced SAM Services” team which serves organizations that are already mature with SAM, or those that wish to become mature in the near future.

A team at the service of SAM performance

Is your company already mature in software asset management? Do you need to outsource part of your SAM activity? Or do you want your company to quickly reach a high level of performance and maturity in software license and cloud management through a large SAM project covering all aspects of software asset management? SAMworx’s Advanced SAM Services team can help.

Many organizations do not know how much they are spending on Software / SaaS / Cloud. We help identify and optimize your spending.

Software / SaaS / Cloud expense reduction

Controlling software and Cloud costs is a real challenge for companies. Software and cloud services are easy to buy but very difficult to manage.

• According to the latest studies, software spending represents on average 30% of IT budgets
• 30% of monthly SaaS payments are for software that is not used (source: Gartner).
• Large companies have 15 times more SaaS applications than they think (source: Cisco).
• In large companies, 89% of former employees still have access to a SaaS application (source: Gartner).
• Cloud spending averaged 23% over budget and is expected to increase by 47% next year (source: The Register).

Do you know how much you are spending on software?

Software costs continue to grow rapidly. Although most organizations use a large number of suppliers, a few large publishers (Microsoft, Oracle, Salesforce) account for between 30% and 50% of spending. Publishers enjoy strong negotiating power, use complex contracts and metrics, and systematically inflate their license and maintenance prices. Despite this, it is possible to control or even significantly reduce your software and SaaS expenses.

How SAMworx can help optimize your expenses

Our software cost optimization service aims to generate cash savings in the short (over the year) and medium term by reducing OPEX maintenance and SaaS costs for all publishers. We can work on the entire contract portfolio or on subsets of applications or publishers.

Audit and initialization

This first step gives an overview of software suppliers and expenses per contract, contractual deadlines and users. This must be carried out over a short period of time. Communication of objectives and progress must be clearly addressed to all IT, procurement and legal stakeholders as well as key user departments.

Analysis and evaluation

Based on the mapping, different work streams will be defined, including actions at the level of publishers, contracts, applications or products, with different levels of priority depending, for example, on financial issues or contractual deadlines. This is when our teams will conduct a study of contracts and usage to define optimization levers and target savings per action and per contract. In certain cases, inventories as well as risk analyses may be recommended.

Implementation of the approach

The implementation is based on joint work between SAMworx’s teams and your organization’s IT, procurement and legal teams. In some cases, this work also includes publishers. Actions, and calculations of savings, are monitored continuously and are documented to ensure they are auditable.