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Business Challenge
Software purchases account for a significant percentage of corporate expenditures and any mismanagement of these applications can prove very costly, yet a large majority of IT departments do not manage these vital assets as part of a broader based asset and change management solution. A single audit can cause significant business disruption and generate substantial costs to confirm or achieve compliance.
Business Need
- Eliminate the costs and risks of software audit violations with policy based license enforcement
- Lower costs and optimize software utilization by not over-provisioning licenses
- Quickly and easily view software usage data via Web-based reporting
- Provide configuration data to the BMC Asset Management to reconcile software usage limits
- Remove over provisioned or rogue software via policy to minimize business risks
Our Solution
BMC Software Usage provides IT departments with visibility into what applications are installed across the enterprise. It can help them to minimize violation risks, reduce software license purchase costs, and increase the use of existing licenses. When BMC Software Usage is deployed as part of a larger BMC Change and Configuration management solution, it provides vital usage statistics to Asset Management via the BMC Atrium Configuration Management Database to match what is deployed and being used against support contracts stored in BMC Asset Management.
Key Features & Benefits
- Collect detailed software usage data from desktops and laptops, even while they are disconnected from the network
- Provides up-to-date statistics on the number and location of software licenses installed and usage statistics
- Reduces costs of software license compliance by allowing IT departments to assess compliance and costs at different points in application life cycle
- Can deliver a rapid return on investment by putting businesses in control of all installed software
- Provides automatic software usage monitoring and policy-based enforcement to control software costs and license audit compliance risks
- Offers policy enforcement capabilities that can manage excessive license deployments, redeploy under-utilized applications and remove rouge software
- Integrates with BMC Asset and Change Management applications providing a fully automated out of the box Change and Configuration Management solution
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Brochure
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BMC Educational Services
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2005 BMC Annual Report
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BMC Business School Course Catalog
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2008 BMC Annual Report
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2007 BMC Annual Report
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2006 BMC Annual Report
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Datasheet
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Column BSM Partner Profile
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BMC Software Usage
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BMC Customer Support Solution Datasheet
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White Paper
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Swing into Business Service Management - Seven Strategies
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Swing into Business Service Management - Seven Strategies - Brazilian Portuguese
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Continuous Policy-Based Change and Configuration Management
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Swing into Business Service Management - Seven Strategies - LA Spanish
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Marimba and Software License Compliance
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Taking IT to the Next Level with Business Service Management
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Simplified Windows Vista Migration - Mitigating Business Risk through Deployment Automation
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