Software Asset Management

Find out how to take control, quantify risk, identify and optimise opportunities for your Software Assets

Take Control of your Software Assets

Why choose Version 1? We will always put you, the customer first. We are vendor agnostic, providing independent licensing advice and guidance on a broad range of enterprise vendors with sophisticated levels of expertise on Oracle, Microsoft, and IBM to name a few. We can support you in making better, more informed decisions on your software estate; ensuring you understand the options to make the right decisions to deliver reduced cost and risk, and ongoing license compliance.

Reduce Cost & Risk
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  • Advice
  • Procurement
Trusted Advisor
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  • Tools Agnostic
  • Experience
Market Leading Expertise
  • Breadth & Scale
  • Technical Background
  • Ongoing Staff Education

The Complexities of Software Asset Management in Six Segments

Software Asset Management (SAM) Methodologies are critical to managing software cost, compliance and risk, but why does it have to be so complicated? Managing a large software enterprise estate is inherently complex and requires the necessary best practice processes to deliver financial benefit. Watch our video on why SAM is complex (and needs to be!) and the benefits of a thorough SAM methodology.

Why Choose our Licensing Solutions?

82% Financial Risk Reduction
Our optimisation expertise helps to deliver financial risk reduction of over 82% on average during audit scenarios.
Reducing £17m to £100k
When engaged our customer was facing a bill of £17m, but through our help this amount became £100k
High Customer ROI
On average, the cost of our license optimisation services is only 2% of what we generally save for our customers.

Why Choose our Software Asset Management Solutions?

£10 Million Saved
Our SAM Service Team’s expertise delivered a cost avoidance opportunity of just under £10m for our enterprise customer
Reduced £5m to £60k
Our SAM Managed Services delivered Database license reduction for our client from over £5m to just under £60k
69% Reduction
Our software asset management services deliver financial risk reduction of 69% on average over the lifecycle of a managed service.

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