USU - Business Service Management

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) has concluded that every third software copy is not properly licensed and thus being used illegally. This "software piracy" and the resulting damage claims by software manufacturers could cause great harm to companies and their personally liable executives, possibly threatening the very existence of these organizations. Software Asset Management (SAM) dramatically reduces this risk.

With the Valuemation SAM/License Manager, you'll always have a current overview of the software licenses installed at your company as well as of those actually in use. This will let you adjust the number and type off licenses to best fit your software usage. At the same time, you'll avoid over/under licensing and document your compliance with contractual terms and conditions as well as legal regulations in an audit-compliant manner. In short, you'll be fully prepared for a software audit.

Your Benefits: With the SAM/License Manager, you'll increase your added value and have greater legal certainty when using your software assets by:

Specifically using and managing your software licenses to meet your exact needs
Cutting costs and using framework agreements by license pooling
Have ready access to all services provided in IT contracts and their applicable terms and conditions
Quickly finding unlicensed software or unauthorized ("bootleg") copies
Avoiding liability risks that could threaten your company by keeping your software use in full compliance with the law.

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Valuemation provides you with all relevant information on the entire IT asset life cycle - from initial procurement on down to ultimate disposal. In addition to the License Manager, the following specialized modules are also available:

Asset Manager for achieving the greatest transparency over your entire IT inventory
CMDB Manager for quick access to the latest IT configuration data
Contract Manager for managing contracts and suppliers
Procurement Manager for acquisition of IT equipment, resources and services
CMDB Manager for quick access to the latest IT configuration data
Service Request Manager for automated application for and approval of IT goods and services

When it comes to License Management, Valuemation's proven strengths have already been well recognized by numerous international analysts:

"USU software is extremely function-rich and able to compete well with the rest of the full-blown IT asset lifecycle management and IT service management (ITSM) suites out there."
(Forrester Research Inc.; The Forrester Wave™: IT Asset Life-Cycle Management, Q2 2009 - 10. April 2009)
"USU's License Manager module takes a unique, per-product approach to automated reconciliation of entitlement and installed or in use software."
(Gartner, Inc.; MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository, 2008 - 21. April 2008)
"USU has strong financial management capabilities that deliver to the needs of the ITAM market."
(Gartner, Inc.; MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository, 2008 - 21. April 2008)

You can download recent evaluations by analysts free of charge.

Since the end of 2008, USU has been an Industry Member of the International Business Software Managers Association (IBSMA), which is headquartered in the United States and is the world's largest non-profit organization of IT specialists dedicated to business software applications.

FIDUCIA IT AG, a major German IT provider deploys USU Valuemation for its software license management. At the Software Asset Management Summit of the IBSMA in 2008, the FIDUCIA corporate license manager was recognized as the "SAM Practitioner of the Year, 2008" for excellent practical application of Software Asset Management. For more information, you can also read: