1. Automate Managing Oracle License Entitlements
Gary Paquette, Oct

3. 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…

4. 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…

5. 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

6. 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

7. Software Asset Management

8. License Entitlements

9. 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!

10. Stay technology safe!
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