FAST Gap Analysis - compliance review

An independent review of your software compliance position.

The FAST Gap Analysis has helped us to identify our current position. We have been able to prioritise and concentrate on getting our main software sorted out first, and then we subsequently worked on the rest. This enabled us to deal with our greatest risk exposure first.

Carson McDowell

FAST Gap Analysis is an essential tool for any organisation embarking on a software compliance or asset management project.

Taken as an online self-assessment or conducted by your FAST Account Manager, it provides an independent review to assess your compliance both at the beginning of your compliance project and at subsequent key stages. These reviews are an exclusive advantage of undertaking the FAST Compliance Programme.

FAST Gap Analysis provides

An independent review of your software compliance position
A report on your exposure to risk and vulnerability around software compliance
An outline software compliance project plan
A readiness report against the FAST Standard for Software Compliance

How it works

The greatest benefit of the programme has been the FAST project plan; it gives our management team, who aren’t necessarily into IT, a focus to work with.

Lavendon Group Plc

By mapping your status against the FAST methodology, you can track your progress towards achieving compliance and identify and prioritise key areas of risk relating to software that need to be addressed. FAST Gap Analysis reports provide project plans specific to your organisation.

The wide-ranging analysis reviews many key areas including: IT policies and procedures, software procurement, storage and control, hardware and software disposal, software audit and reconciliation strategy.

Depending on what level of the FAST Compliance Programme you select, the Gap Analysis can be taken in two ways:

Online self-assessment - using our online tool you can input the relevant data regarding your software management practices and the system produces a compliance report.

FAST Account Manager led - a FAST advisor will come on site and conduct the Gap Analysis for you. The results will be reported back to you via a presentation.