Free Offer in Q2’08 to Conduct Your Own Company Software Savings Project
Austin, Texas - TriActive – April 1, 2008 – TriActive, Inc., a pioneer in SaaS for systems management and THINKstrategies, a strategic consulting company that helps enterprises make better sourcing decisions, today announced the completion of a 460 company study on the usage of Microsoft Office® software. The study, which included data collected by TriActive’s Asset Management Suite™ from over 125,000 endpoints across 460 companies, revealed companies can save an average of 50% or more on their Microsoft Office licensing by only purchasing software actually used by individual employees, and provisioning the correct version of Office needed by the users. The study found that Microsoft Office is installed on more than 99% of corporate PC’s and in many cases those Microsoft Office installations are underutilized or completely unused.
TriActive and its partners are offering an opportunity for companies to calculate their own software savings project at no cost or obligation. To register for a copy of the software savings study and a video on the FREE offer, go to www.SystemsManagementOndemand.com/software_savings_project.
“With accurate software installation data from TriActive, we analyzed our software license compliance and found in some instances we had too many licenses, and in others we did not have enough,” said Bill Jenkins, IT supervisor, Otay water District. “Using TriActive’s solution, our LAR saved us $300,000.”
“Working with our strategic partners, we’ve come up with the most cost-effective and easy way for customers, Large Account Resellers, and Managed Services Providers to find savings in their software portfolios,” said Ron Halversen, VP Marketing, TriActive. “We were surprised at the amount of savings in every company just sitting there for the taking. Our job now is to show the masses how easy it is to find and capture the savings.”
The TriActive Systems Manager discovery feature identifies and categorizes all the software applications installed within an organization’s computing environment. Systems Manager leverages a catalog of nearly 400,000 software titles that organizes and normalizes software types, titles, publishers, and versions into a series of reports for the customer, LAR, or MSP to review quickly and easily using a secure Web portal. The Web portal can show the potential costs of upgrading license agreements and the potential cost-savings of eliminating licenses for unused and underutilized applications.
The most popular approach to software license compliance is the implementation of an on-premise platform solution like IBM, Tivoli, Altiris, LANDesk, or Microsoft SCCM (SMS). While these solutions are designed to provide a broad management platform, they are costly to manage and support, and require vast amounts of infrastructure to provide useful data to Purchasing and Procurement organizations. In most cases, manual data manipulation is required to determine compliance or negotiate software license agreements, consumes valuable IT resources, and becomes yet another major IT project. By partnering with LARs and MSPs, TriActive has enabled a powerful, remote Systems Manager to perform a series of hardware and software management tasks in an automated fashion. The Systems Manager technology is packaged into scalable and modular components so customers can pay for what they use, when they need it. LARs and MSPs can now assist customers by leveraging this Web-based, hosted model to deliver accurate software license and usage reports. The greatest benefit is being able to benchmark their customers’ performance across a broad cross-section of their clientele. The only requirement is an Internet connection.
“As the economy becomes more uncertain, businesses of all sizes must manage their operations more carefully,” said Jeffrey M. Kaplan, managing director of THINKstrategies and Founder of the Managed Services and Software-as-a-Service Showplace directories. “THINKstrategies is pleased to collaborate with TriActive to clearly demonstrate how companies can benefit from managed services providers (MSPs) who leverage TriActive’s powerful Asset Management solution to track their software utilization levels so they can right-size their software licensing agreements and reduce their operating costs.”
To obtain a free copy of the study go to: www.SystemsManagementOndemand.com/software_study.
About TriActive
TriActive, Inc. is a pioneer in SaaS for systems management; the combination of hosted systems management software and subscription model dramatically improves service levels while reducing complexity and total cost of ownership (TCO) for IT departments. TriActive offers a modular solution set that enables IT and Managed Service Providers (MSPs) to deliver IT projects and services on demand over the Internet without an expensive upfront investment. For more information visit www.triactive.com. For partner inquiries visit www.ManagedServicesOndemand.com
About THINKstrategies
THINKstrategies is a strategic consulting services company formed specifically to address the unprecedented business challenges facing IT managers, solutions providers, and investors today as the technology industry shifts toward a services orientation. The company’s mission is to help our clients re-THINK their corporate strategies and refocus their limited resources to achieve their business objectives. THINKstrategies is also the founder of the Managed Services and Software-as-a-Service Showplaces (www.msp-showplace.com and www.saas-showplace.com), the largest, online, vendor-independent directories and best practices resources. For more information regarding our unique services, visit www.thinkstrategies.com, or contact us at info@thinkstrategies.com.
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Ahorros en promedio de un 50% en costos de licenciamiento en la suite de Microsoft Office