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Software Lifecycle Management

With Computacenter’s help organisations can simplify the management of their software assets resulting in reduced cost, complexity and risk.

Business Challenge

Faced with increasingly complex vendor agreements and concerns over non-compliance, plus the intangible nature of software assets, organisations often invest in unnecessary licenses when they could be utilising existing assets.

However with limited internal resources, few organisations have the time or expertise needed to optimise their software licences and management processes. This can result in under and over-licensing, reactive renewals, disparate procurement processes and poor software asset management.

These factors will have a negative impact on cost control and compliance. With vendor audit activity on the increase, maintaining a comprehensive understanding of an organisation’s licensing position is essential. Achieving this goal is even more complex if your company is undergoing organisational change.

Computacenter Solution

Computacenter’s Software Lifecycle Management services combine the tools, processes, policies and expertise you need to optimise software within your organisation. Our services enable simple license procurement through to out-tasking software management.

• Request Management: Consolidating software procurement through Computacenter reduces the burden on your purchasing team, and ensures the optimum licence options to satisfy requirements.
  
  
• Renewals Management: We will proactively track your licences, software support and maintenance contracts. As well as freeing up internal resources, our service will help you budget more effectively.
  
  
• Portfolio Management: By standardising your software portfolio and eliminating duplications, Computacenter can help you reduce licensing costs and take advantage of volume purchasing discounts.
  
  
• Licence Management: Computacenter will provide total visibility of your software inventory and license status, maximising asset utilisation and maintaining an effective licensing position on your behalf.

Key Benefit

Computacenter’s Software Lifecycle Management services deliver quick and quantifiable outcomes by increasing control and visibility. This will result in:

• Reduced cost: By eliminating licence under-utilisation and consolidating vendor agreements, we will help your organisation unlock immediate financial savings. We can also minimise future expenditure by establishing more effective software lifecycle management processes.
  
  
• Control: End to end visibility and control of your software estate means you can make the right decisions on where and how to reduce cost and risk, from purchase through to retirement of your software assets.
  
  
• Risk avoidance: With better visibility of your software estate, your organisation will be able to take a more proactive approach to compliance. This will enable you to maintain a balanced licensing position with minimal effort and expense, and reduce the risk of vendor audits.

Why Computacenter?

Computacenter will make your business sharper by removing cost, complexity and barriers to change. We have an open, pragmatic approach, and always provide independent advice, working with IT departments, not around them.

Computacenter serves its clients from offices and facilities across the UK, Germany, France, the Benelux countries and Spain. We also have a support centre in South Africa and a network of global partners.

With 25 years of practical IT ‘know how’, we will change the way you think about technology. Computacenter’s services and solutions are based on the same strong values:

• Industry recognition: Our services have been accredited by major software vendors, including Microsoft, Oracle, Adobe, McAfee, Sophos, Symantec and VMware. Computacenter is a member of the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) and Investors in Software (IiS). Eighty percent of companies in the FTSE 250 call on our software skills.
  
  
• Best practice: Computacenter’s services are founded on best practice tools and methodologies and an engrained managed service culture, which facilitates effective transformation and the delivery of rapid results.
  
  
• Breadth and scale: Our team includes 1,500 Microsoft Certified Professionals and 17 software practice professionals. Computacenter can source software from 1,100-plus vendors across 120 countries.