Process of the Month – Software Rationalisation

Process of the Month – Software Rationalisation: Welcome to the vlog of Process of the Month in support of the relaunch of the ITAM Accelerate Process Kit.

We have launched a ten minute presentation that will offer a run-through of various processes documented in the Process Kit.

Over the next 11 months I and assorted guest SAM-experts will be offering a commentary over a featured process, and this month Kylie Fowler of ITAM Intelligence has kindly volunteered to offer a commentary on this process.

And don’t forget to check out our inaugural launch with our Maintain a Supported Catalogue Process here:

Process of the Month – Software Rationalisation.
  • Is your software tail becoming too burdensome?
  • Is Service Management drowning in numerous flavours and iterations of seemingly identical software titles?
  • Is Info Sec getting fed up of validating versions and editions of the same title?

This video will show how SAM can help curtail such grumbles.

We don’t wish to become the bead news department: constantly producing woeful compliance reports.  So we have to redirect our energy to methods that improve the data that contributes to those reports.  The Software Rationalisation Process asks a business to consider all the software titles that perform a given task.  PDF readers is a great desktop example.  Variants of Linux Operating systems is another for the back-end/ datacenter.

We could end up consolidating where our technical support goes beyond our own help desk.  Additionally, we are forcing economies of scale on procurement through consolidating instances 17 variants to 3 or 4 to manage contracts for. While such an exercise might cause a lot of huffing and puffing from IT Operations and Service Management(!) it is for their own good! If they need any further persuading, then remind them of the patching overhead this will help with. We don’t mow the lawn just once a year.

 

Rory Canavan

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