White Papers
These white papers help you to understand the benefits of software identification tags in different organizational process requirements. Additional materials may be available to members in the members-only area of the site.
Using ISO/IEC 19770-2 Software Identification Tags to Enhance Software Asset Management
This white paper shows how end-user organizations benefit from software identification tags.
| Author: | Paul 'Doc' Burnham |
| Title: | Using ISO/IEC 19770-2 Software Identification Tags to Enhance Software Asset Management |
| Publisher: | Agnitio Advisors Inc. |
| Abstract: | Most organizations recognize the need to manage their software assets, and those same organizations also recognize that an effective software asset management (SAM) program is not something that just happens. Identifying all software installed in the organization’s environment is complex and difficult. This white paper provides an overview of how organizations can use and benefit from software identification tags to enhance their SAM programs. |
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Why Software Identification Is So Difficult — and How To Simplify It
CA's Howard Hastings explores why current software compliance processes are inefficient, and shows how the introduction of software identification tags can simplify and automate these initiatives.
| Author: | Howard Hastings |
| Title: | Why Software License Management Is so Difficult — and How To Simplify It |
| Publisher: | CA |
| Abstract: | The process of achieving software compliance through efficient software license management poses considerable difficulties for organizations looking to perform these activities with any level of efficiency or automation. A lack of standards in both the products needing identification and the tools designed to provide this service leads to a process dependent on tedious, manual tasks to assemble an accurate software inventory for license management. |
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The Future of Software Asset Management
This white paper provides information on why software identification is so difficult to do properly today (even if the organizations inventory, discovery, or SAM tool includes an application recognition engine). This problem has implications for Software Asset Management from the perspectives of License Management, Security Rationalization and Organizational Infrastructure processes and policies. Software identification tags are a first step towards resolving these problems and this paper provides a perspecitve of how SAM can be made significantly easier, faster, and more accurate.
| Author: | Steve Klos |
| Title: | The Future of Software Asset Management |
| Publisher: | TagVault.org |
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Every organization that purchases and uses software has multiple reasons for knowing exactly what software is installed in their infrastructure and how best to manage it. The reasons fall into three major categories:
These issues have a direct and immediate impact on software purchasers, but they also have an impact on software publishers and SAM tool and service providers. This white paper explores some of the reasons that SAM programs are currently so difficult to implement, and what the market is doing to make it cheaper, easier and faster. |
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