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Make sure your virtualisation efforts don't add cost and complexity to your software licensing activities by taking a proactive approach.

Understanding vendor licensing rules is already incredibly difficult, and is often exacerbated when an organisation decides to virtualise its IT devices. This can not only lead to non-compliance but also undermine the financial savings that can be gained through virtualisation .

Maximise utilisation, minimise risk

To ensure software licensing challenges do not hamper your virtualisation efforts, Computacenter offers a range of services to support you at every stage of your virtualisation roadmap.

Virtualisation Licensing Appraisal:
Computacenter will help you determine the best fit, best value approach to software licensing within your virtual environments. By analysing your business and software support needs as well as vendor licensing rules, pricing models and product roadmaps, we will provide you with strategic recommendations that will enable you to balance cost with control and compliance.

Software Asset Appraisal:
This service can be initiated at any stage of your virtualisation journey to optimise governance and utilisation of your licensing investments. It is particularly valuable if your organisation needs to gain visibility ahead of contract negotiation, mitigate the impact of a current audit or prevent possible audits in the future. The appraisal process identifies under- and over-utilised licences to minimise the risk of any shortfall and maximise your return from existing assets.

Software Licence Management:
With virtualisation environments continually evolving, keeping up with licensing requirements can be very time-consuming. Through the application of expert consultancy and continuous reconciliation of software entitlements, Computacenter's managed services enable organisations to sustain a balanced licence position without draining internal resources.

Only invest in the licences you truly need

By taking a proactive approach to sourcing and managing software licences for virtual infrastructures, your organisation will be able to:

• Avoid unnecessary spend
• Take advantage of vendor discounts and volume pricing structures
• Reduce the risk of non-compliance
• Respond quicker to organisational change
• Remove complexity and free up resources

Our licensing expertise is well proven, with 80 percent of companies in the FTSE 250 calling on Computacenterâ??s software skills. We have direct relationships with more than 1,100 IT vendors and hold in excess of 200 vendor accreditations.

Computacenter is also a member of the Federation Against Software Theft (FAST) and Investors in Software (IiS), and remains the only non-vendor organisation on the Software Industry Research Board (SIRB) .

Free Virtualisation Licensing consultation