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Currently, organizations have budgetary goals that must be met, with IT teams in charge of executing the steps that help their companies to stay in constant evolution without having to resort to and use more resources.
At Licensing Assurance we have developed an easy 4-step strategy that can help every IT department get the most out of its budget in 2022.

1. APPROACH AND ORGANIZATION
To achieve your department's goals in 2022, it is important to define them. Since, at the beginning of another year, a large number of professionals continue to solve problems that they bring from the previous year or manage things so that they do not deteriorate. That is why periodic reviews (annual, semi-annual or quarterly) should be established where the perspective is analyzed, always focused on the search for new evolutionary projects and organizing the plans for the next period.

In this case, the IT department should begin with a review of the operations, implementations and acquisitions of the previous year; analyzing the benefits obtained, knowledge acquired and the new vision for the next year.

By having data to support decisions, we complete the first link to success, which will allow us to move forward.

2. PERPECTIVES AND TRANSPARENCY

It is essential to keep a record of the IT health management that makes existing data grow, as Peter Drucker would say “what cannot be measured cannot be improved”.

This data collection can help you make timely decisions, as well as prevent long-term cost overruns.

Your team can use solutions that give them a clear idea of ​​how IT management influences the operation of other departments if they are not managed correctly. For this I can see our article: The key to the success and profitability of companies is the licensing administration.

3. INVEST IN YOUR IT DEPARTMENT

Your IT team may be made up of innovative people looking to advance and evolve. In fact, every day technologies evolve, new knowledge and strategies required to successfully achieve their performance emerge.

Try to organize the time and tasks of your work team, so that the interested parties have time to train and update themselves. This would bring you benefits since having a trained and updated department provides an organization for savings in operating budget and recruiting new talent.

4. HAVE AN EFFECTIVE LICENSING MANAGEMENT

Having an effective software administration is of great importance, both for large corporations that have been in it for years, and for those that are just starting out.

Software Asset Management (SAM) is a novel solution that covers the administration and management of your licensing and that goes beyond the use of discovery tools.

Software Asset Management generates value, productivity and growth for your organization and its software assets, provides security to your platform and genertes savings for the adoption of best practices.

A company that does not use good management of its software assets may be overpaying for unused or rarely used licenses, or paying excessive fines imposed by software vendors as a result of a review or audit, generating this way budget failures intended for other goals within your organization.

For this and many compelling reasons, it is imperative that your organization has good licensing management that eliminates overhead, creates security, protects you from audits and generates savings to invest in other projects.

The light at the end of the tunnel

After everything provided in this post, we hope you have a clearer focus on the role your team plays in optimizing the IT department budget. However, we believe that your company's resources can be better used or invested if you seek advice and support from experts in licensing management.

In Licensing Assurance in order to guarantee the maximum use of the contracted software, we focus our solutions on the best Software Asset Management (SAM) practices to optimize your licensing and achieve significant savings (up to 30%) for your organization.

Contact one of our experts.