Expert, cost-effective support for software management.
Your organisation values the benefits of effective software
asset management (SAM) but doesn’t have the resources in-house to
introduce or maintain a SAM programme. FAST can supply this need
with a range of managed services.
Your IT team are free to focus on their core responsibilities,
knowing that essential tasks are in experienced hands of
professionals, who will provide meaningful reports on their
findings.
The file recognition challenge
When you perform a software audit, you’ll probably be faced with
a long list of unidentified files. These files not only present a
potential compliance and security risk to your business, but
reconciling them against the appropriate software application can
be a real challenge.
We offer a managed service that will help you realise the
potential of your systems management tool. The service is ideal
for, but not restricted to, organisations using tools such Altiris,
SMS, CA UAM and LANDesk.
Our reconciliation services convert the data from your tool into
the reports required to undertake effective software asset
management. Executable files are identified using our FileCruncher
service.
FAST services
- FAST Compliance Programme Gold Stage 1
recognition service - includes recognition of all
Microsoft applications, plus 5 other software publishers
- Full recognition service -
annual subscription with 95% file recognition guaranteed
- Bureau recognition and reconciliation
services - annual subscription
with 95% file recognition guaranteed and reconciliation against
entitlement
and licence records
- Fully hosted managed service
options - all the above services can be
hosted off site if required
These subscription-based services will help you to:
- Make the best use of the data provided by your
systems management tool
- Save many man-days for IT personnel
- Process audit data into manageable, easy to
understand reports
- Eliminate risk by identifying unrecognised
files
Software reconciliation service
FAST will collate your software licence entitlement
documentation and reconcile the information against your audit tool
data to provide a monthly software compliance report. This can be
provided as a hosted or on site service.