Camwood, the specialists in Application Logistics for large enterprises, announced today the launch of Camwood Survey™, a new solution for application estate audits.

The Problem:

Enterprises with thousands of applications installed run the risk of wasting a lot of money when they migrate to a new Operating System, by not factoring in whether all the applications are actually being used before they go ahead and migrate.

Camwood’s wealth of experience in helping large organisations with their application estates has led to the development of Camwood Survey,a powerful new cost-saving solution.

Camwood Survey is an IT Asset Lifecycle Management solution that provides detailed, comprehensive real-time usage information for the IT assets in your environment.

Survey accurately identifies unused and under-used hardware and software assets. This reduces IT spending by eliminating unnecessary maintenance costs, reallocating existing software licenses, reducing annual true-up costs, and cutting back on support needs.

Survey also aids in risk management, as it identifies areas of non-compliance with license agreements that can leave your company liable for huge unplanned software purchase costs and fines.

Survey’s asset intelligence provides a business view of the computer systems and software that are installed in your organization. The IT asset usage reports provide the insight organizations need to work proactively with the IT and purchasing departments to:

• Stop the over-buying of software licenses
• Remove the cost burden of maintaining and supporting under-utilized software and hardware
• Gain fair value from annual software license reviews and “true-up” negotiations
• Reallocate software instead of buying additional licenses
• Replace full versions of software titles with read-only versions where appropriate
• Achieve accurate compliance with vendor licensing and eliminate liability risk
• Accurately plan your IT budget for the next year and forecast future budget needs
• Plan the strategic migration of new operating systems, applications

This is only one part of the rationalisation story.  We are so confident in the savings that Survey will bring, we will implement this solution for you free of charge and take a cut of the savings made.

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