Licensed to Kill?

Software is one of the largest line items in IT budgets. Industry estimates put it at more than 20% of total spend, and approximately 35% of that spend is on infrastructure software – including databases, application servers and other middleware.

Due to lack of accurate software usage data, central purchasing groups can only contract based on expected rather than actual usage, making it hard to ensure compliance with licensing agreements. As a result, they either heavily over-purchase or risk the legal ramifications of under-licensing. It’s an ongoing struggle to manage multiple versions and patch levels for instances of the same software product – reducing their infrastructure agility and resiliency.

With the changing software buying landscape, companies must find new ways to gauge software use effectively and create more transparency, including identifying and eliminating unused software licenses in their IT environment. Tideway can help you quickly reduce software maintenance costs percent simply by identifying surplus licenses and eliminating extraneous product instances.

Get an Accurate Software Inventory

Tideway Foundation™ continuously discovers all instances of software that exist and are running in your IT environment. It will even find software running on servers that you didn’t know existed! Foundation discovers a broad range of infrastructure products out of the box, so you can easily organize software data by vendor, software product and version.

Imagine if you had a clear understanding of how many software licenses you really need to run your business – and the server (real or virtual) and OS that software is running on today. Foundation gives you the data to support multiple different licensing models (such as pricing by server, by CPU or by CPU core).

And because Foundation understands dependencies between components, you can identify software consolidation opportunities to generate additional license savings.

By using Tideway’s baseline service in preparation for a vendor audit, one organisation reduced its Oracle License Renewal exposure from £3.2M to £857,000, saving them nearly £2.4M. Why not see what we can achieve for you?

Benefits:

• Ensure continuous software license compliance
• Consolidate and remove unused software to reduce license and maintenance costs
• Reduce version and patch diversity for key enterprise software to lower operational cost and risk
• Only pay for the software actually used
• 80% reduction in costs to discover and document IT environment

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License Optimization
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Customer Quote

“We reduced our Oracle license renewal exposure from £3,200,000 to £894,000 through a better understanding of our licence position and better management of the licenses in terms of partitioning and users.” Head of Infrastructure, UK Utility

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Using Foundation for Software License Management
Auditing how much software you have in use in the data center is a huge manual task. Tideway Foundation automates the process, giving an accurate count of software products and versions in use. This makes license negotiation easier, reduces the risk of under licensing, and identifies software that can be consolidated to save money.