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Eliminate Your Worries About SAP License Management
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SAP licenses tend to be very expensive and determining the best license type for each user can be impossible to complete manually. What can SAP customers do to resolve this challenge? Eracent’s Continuous License Reconciliation (CLR) for SAP® Applications™ offers an automated method to ensure compliance for any SAP application, and helps customers realize tremendous cost savings through optimization analysis and license type recommendations based on actual usage details.
March 21, 2018 Read more
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Recommended Software Asset Management Conferences in 2018
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Are you searching for Software Asset Management (SAM) conferences to attend in 2018? With the growth in SAM, the number of industry events seems to be increasing each year. Eracent is a frequent sponsor at SAM conferences and we wanted to let you know where to find us in 2018.
February 22, 2018 Read more
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Mobility Management Made Easy
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With the heavy adoption of mobile devices such as laptops, iPads and smart phones, managing your mobile environment has become more critical as well as challenging. Some SAM tool providers are focusing on how best to manage mobiles and have developed tools to make Enterprise Mobility Management, and the ITAM Manager’s job, a whole lot easier.
January 19, 2018 Read more
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For Best Results, Focus on the “M” in SAM
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So you’re shopping for a Software Asset Management tool. One of the things you’re certain to hear during presentations and demos is how quickly you can get to SAM nirvana. With their tool, you just enter your purchase details and any discovery data you have about software installations and voila! Magic happens behind the scenes and your SAM challenges are vanquished. Their tool is the mythical “easy button”.
January 9, 2018 Read more
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Reflections on 2017
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As 2017 comes to a close, the Eracent team would like to thank our customers and partners who have contributed to our success. We would also like to thank everyone who took the time to speak with our team at industry conferences and events during the year. In reflecting on 2017, Eracent had a very good year.
December 20, 2017 Read more
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Using ITAM Data for Cloud Migration – Preparation, Verification and Optimization
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Migrating business processes and applications to the public cloud enables companies to move away from paying for and maintaining their own infrastructure. When an organization is considering moving to the cloud, what is the best source of data for migration planning? It’s often the data generated by the IT Asset Management (ITAM) program. ITAM data is integral to building the business case for migrating to the cloud.
December 12, 2017 Read more
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Automated License Harvesting and Benefits
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Does your organization have a process in place for re-using or harvesting software licenses? For example, when a desktop or laptop is retired, what happens to the software licenses that reside on the machine? With a reliable harvesting process, the software assets that can be re-assigned should go into a pool of available licenses for re-use. A Software Asset Management (SAM) tool that manages licenses and monitors application usage can help automate the process of harvesting.
November 6, 2017 Read more
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Oracle Licensing in the Cloud
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As an end-user of Oracle software, your organization is considering moving to the cloud. What are the considerations when making this decision? If you move to the cloud, how will you track, manage and optimize the software licenses? It’s important to know what to do in terms of software licensing and tracking deployments, and have access to supporting data that will enable your organization to make good decisions about optimization.
October 11, 2017 Read more
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The Value of End-of-Life Data
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One of the basic benefits of IT Asset Management (ITAM) is gaining an understanding of the hardware and software components that make up your environment.
September 22, 2017 Read more
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