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Boost efficiency and drive savings with an optimised software environment

Managing software usage, ensuring compliance with licensing terms, reducing software-as-a-service (SaaS) spend, controlling cloud costs, addressing software vulnerabilities and accounting for carbon emissions are challenging for many businesses. DXC Software Asset Management (SAM) gives you comprehensive control of your software landscape. Our emphasis on quality data and automation helps you simplify complexity, achieve significant savings, streamline operations, enhance security, maximise efficiency and proactively manage your carbon footprint.

What's included

Data-driven decision assistance

Harness quality data to empower your organisation to make smart choices about your software investments and usage, as you navigate the software asset management journey.

Compliance guidance

Getting you an effective license position with software vendors’ terms helps your organisation avoid costly audit penalties and legal issues.

Risk Management

Quickly detect potential software vulnerabilities, outdated systems or compliance discrepancies.

Software cost optimisation

Identify and eliminate unnecessary licenses, ensuring you only pay for what you use.

Features

Set the baseline to deliver a normalised view of software assets to manage and optimise the license environment through greater process efficiencies; enhance your ability to ensure compliance with software vendors' terms and conditions; and defend against potential audits. DXC can track and analyse your organisation’s software inventory, devices, usage, purchase order data, license entitlements and contract terms to establish a trustworthy foundation of quality SAM data.

Working from that foundation, DXC helped a banking customer achieve more than $1.2 million in savings by conducting a usage audit for compliance and reducing unused and under-consumed licenses.

Our SAM for SaaS service module discovers and monitors SaaS apps, provides insights to control sprawl and right-sizes based on actual software usage. Our actionable recommendations enable improved SaaS spend control and data security.

Our SAM for Cloud Costs service module tracks your spend across cloud providers to improve visibility, and addresses the quality and quantity of services consumed.

In one instance, a food conglomerate turned to DXC to manage its consolidated cloud providers' spend of over $11,000,000, and we reduced its over-consumption from 7% to 2% in just one year.

DXC's SAM Optimisation service module pays special attention to the software vendors for which customers have the largest spend — Adobe, IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP and VMware by Broadcom — and focuses on maximising your return on software investment by consolidating licenses, analysing usage, mitigating risks and reducing costs.

By optimising the Microsoft Windows Server license structure and utilisation for a life sciences company, DXC helped it to achieve $1,740,000 in cost savings.

DXC's Optimised Software Request service module automates workflows to ensure streamlined self-service software procurement, automated delivery, streamlined license management and efficient asset lifecycle tracking.

Our SAM Insights service module provides comprehensive insights to equip you to manage risks that could impact your software environments. We help you manage end-of-life asset scenarios, rationalise applications and discover obsolescence risks. It is crucial to tackle software security vulnerabilities and address obsolescence risks to avoid system crashes, data loss and financial loss.

Our SAM Sustainability service module helps businesses track and report software carbon emissions for tier 1 cloud providers, promote efficient utilization and reduce waste.

20+ years of experience

in delivering comprehensive software asset management solutions

Up to 20% cost reduction

in overall software spend

5,000 to 150,000 devices in scope

with adaptable service to any size customer

Who can benefit

Consider DXC Software Asset Management for your business if:

You have concerns about upcoming software audits, and need to demonstrate that you are in control of your assets — both software installs and licenses.
You are challenged with optimising licenses and related costs for large vendor contract renewals.
Your software procurement processes are complex, non-centralised and/or unmanaged.
Your in-house SAM team is insufficiently experienced and/or under-resourced.
You need visibility into software inventories in preparation for mergers, acquisitions or divestitures.
You work in a regulated sector — such as finance, healthcare or government — where compliance requirements are especially stringent.

Why DXC

Leading businesses choose DXC for our global partner ecosystem, comprehensive visibility and control of software licensing, and relentless focus on delivering value fast. Here's what you can expect when you work with us:

Modular SAM service strategy

DXC built a solution tailored to your technology requirements, offering you the flexibility to combine modules from across our SAM portfolio.

Dynamic approach

DXC SAM manages and optimises a variety of software environments, keeping pace with your business as it evolves and adopts new technologies.

Spend alignment

DXC rightsizes SaaS and cloud expenditure and works with you to align your software investment with your business goals.

"With the help of our DXC team, we realised a total price improvement of more than $10 million during the renewal negotiations for our software agreement."

Global Procurement Lead, Software
Swiss-based global pharmaceutical company

Partnerships

DXC delivers Software Asset Management alongside leading partners and key collaborators.

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Commonly asked questions about Software Asset Management

DXC can equip a range of IT stakeholders with the quality SAM data required to make informed decisions about software investments and usage. By managing asset end-of-life, end-of-service and obsolescence risks across the lifecycle, your IT staff can improve governance. Automating routine tasks such as license tracking and compliance reporting reduces manual effort, time and errors, increasing your IT teams’ overall efficiency and allowing them to pivot to strategic initiatives.

Our comprehensive, data-driven solution optimises SaaS usage by uncovering and monitoring all SaaS applications in use within an organisation. We provide detailed reports on unauthorised SaaS expenses and analyse spend across several dimensions, including active and inactive users. Our focus on aligning usage with business needs ensures actionable insights into usage patterns, inactivity and unauthorised activity, empowering organisations to make informed decisions.

We enhance visibility into cloud billing data, offer personalised cloud cost analysis and detect anomalies in spend. Further benefits include our understanding of cloud provider discount allocations; identification of potential savings opportunities in cloud usage; and valuable insights on effective management and control of cloud spend.

With DXC's expertise, organisations can confidently navigate the complexities of SaaS and cloud spend management, ensuring optimal resource allocation and cost efficiency.

Organisations typically lack sufficient in-house SAM expertise and resources to leverage the maximum benefits of a robust SAM program. Having managed complex SAM transformation projects around the world, DXC is uniquely positioned to bring deep knowledge of optimisation and best practices to your business. We also can work seamlessly with your existing SAM resources.

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