Automate Managing Oracle License Entitlements Gary Paquette, Oct 22 2018

Key Factors to Your Success! Establish goals and requirements Strategize and Consolidate on your solutions to drive success Reconciling data Automation - full network agentless Discovery/Inventory Normalizing data to be useable Data sharing! Bridging silos…

Where Do We Start? “Control the Chaos!” Age old question… in the beginning: Establish your Technology Baseline Gather all of the pertinent information you can as early as possible Get data from all assets types to consolidate and reconcile: Fixed Assets HR systems Contract Management Post-Its Excel Now you have step #1 – What to do with the data…

Data Analytics – Asset Intelligence® Now that you have the baseline… Understand your vendors – consolidate Business decisions, ongoing history and audit Who is using what and why? Where are the assets located? Control maintenance renewals Security M&A

Bridging the Information Gap A single accurate view – trusted data source Creating the ability to disseminate crucial information to all aspects of the enterprise from a central up to date consolidated source Provide the information needed to monitor and measure TCO To lower operating cost by eliminating complexity and redundancy Expose critical information for proactive use throughout the enterprise Drive alerts that mitigate risk across projects Deliver critical “ current State “ information to drive Track corporate investments in technology through the asset lifecycle

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Cost Savings – Technology Asset Management Analysts for years have provide the numbers for savings Organizations can expect to achieve up to 15 percent savings annually on a managed asset by implementing a software and hardware asset management program Effects the Data Center, Network and the Desktop infrastructure You cannot manage what you do not know about!

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