Software License Optimisation (SLO)
With the proliferation of software as a service (SaaS), managing and maintaining software licenses is becoming increasingly difficult and expensive even for small to medium-sized business. Large organisations such as governments and universities have an even more challenging task, as most larger institutions have multiple versions of various software applications running concurrently, which can create a major issue from a license management viewpoint.
Avoid Costly Excess Software Licenses
The SaaS model is often based on 1 license per seat, yet the license purchase options are often in ranges with fixed costs per range. This can create opportunities to review existing software license agreements and conduct vendor negotiations to optimise these agreements to better suit the business requirements.
Another issue that can arise, is when management decides to remove licenses as a pure cost-cutting exercise, which can have a negative impact on the business as individual productivity is potentially reduced by removing the tools that staff are actually using.
