Protect your budget from licensing overspend and negotiate
contracts from a stronger position.
Software and maintenance typically represent up to 30% of an
organisation’s IT budget. Such significant spend means you
need to be keeping a close eye on your licences and how
you use them. Poor management of your IT assets could mean that
your organisation is wasting money.
General awareness of software licensing issues
has improved and in turn this has helped us to save money.
Dacorum Borough Council
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Although software doesn’t sit on the asset register for
accounting purposes, there are proven benefits to its better
management. Studies have shown that effective software and licence
management lowers total cost of ownership.
FAST has worked with many businesses who have found that
their software is over-licensed. They are overspending unnecessarily by having
more copies of software than required or paying
maintenance on unused applications.
FAST will empower your organisation to better manage
your software, mitigate risk and avoid overspend
The FAST
Compliance Programme provides a framework for helping your
organisation to manage its software. Applying the framework ensures
your legal compliance and effective management of your assets for
optimum financial benefit.
FAST will help you to:
Having undertaken the FAST Compliance
Programme, we worry less about overspending, as I know any
purchases are controlled through policy and procedure.
Channel 5 Broadcasting
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- Achieve best practice in IT management, a key
element of good corporate governance
- Optimise your investment in IT assets
- Reduce cost - minimise unnecessary
overspend on software
- Be in a stronger position when negotiating
future licensing contracts
- Mitigate the risks associated with using
unlicensed software
- Budget and plan for your IT assets more
effectively
- Demonstrate software compliance by registering
to the FAST Standard for Software Compliance
- Protect your organisation’s reputation
- Minimise IT security risk with best practice
IT policies and procedures
Read more about the risks of under-licensing and the unnecessary cost
of over-licensing your software