APPCLARITY™ Software Asset Management Tool
IS BEING IN THE DARK
ON UNUSED SOFTWARE
COSTING YOU MILLIONS?
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
IS LACK OF VISIBILITY INCREASING
YOUR CHANCES OF BEING AUDITED?
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
WANT TO STOP BEING
OUT-MANOEUVRED BY
SOFTWARE VENDORS?
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
IS BEING IN THE
DARK ON UNUSED SOFTWARE WITHIN
YOUR ORGANIZATION COSTING YOU MILLIONS?
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
DOES THE PROSPECTS
OF A LICENSE AUDIT OR NEGOTIATION GIVE YOU
THAT SINKING FEELING?
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
WANT TO STOP BEING
OUT-MANOEUVRED BY
SOFTWARE VENDORS?
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
IS BEING IN THE DARK
ON UNUSED SOFTWARE
COSTING YOU MILLIONS?
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
IS LACK OF VISIBILITY
INCREASING YOUR CHANCES
OF BEING AUDITED?
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
WANT TO STOP BEING
OUT-MANOEUVRED BY
SOFTWARE VENDORS?
KNOWLEDGE IS POWER
INTRODUCTION
How accurate is the inventory of software deployed and licenses active across your organization? Most companies waste millions due to lack of visibility. Whether preparing for audit or supporting business change, accurate visibility into your software estate takes the guesswork out of Software Asset Management: eliminating waste, maximizing efficiency and saving your company millions. Because knowledge really is power.
AppClarity provides a precise, straightforward view of the software installed and active across the enterprise – empowering organizations by delivering total visibility into their software estate. Automated processes measure application usage, reclaim unused or prohibited software and allow licenses to be redeployed as needed. The time-saving solution transforms Software Asset Management into a business as usual proposition instead of an ad-hoc project, turning the tables in favor of the customer in vendor audits, software compliance and license negotiation.
Stop paying for software you don’t need. Stop entering vendor negotiations and audits with your hands tied. Stop truing up – start truing down.
APPCLARITY
BIG PICTURE, FINE DETAIL.
AppClarity Product Sheet
AppClarity is the fastest, most cost-effective way to establish visibility and control over your software landscape and spend, achieve software license optimization, and beat software audits.
With APPCLARITY you can:
Establish accurate visibility into, and control over, software usage across the enterprise
Reclaim unused and/or prohibited software and redeploy licenses as needed
Transform software asset management into business as usual, reducing costs, complexity and the risk of audit
SOFTWARE LICENSE AUDITS: FIGHT BACK
AppClarity dramatically reduces the time Software Asset Managers require to respond to vendor audits: transforming an arduous, reactive process into an opportunity for cost savings. Accurate software usage tracking and reporting drives this proactive approach, empowering the enterprise in vendor negotiations and audits, as well as establishing a reputation for compliance. Keeping the business on the front foot – reducing waste and cutting costs by removing unused applications.
CHECKLIST
The Software Audit Defense Checklist
What to do when the audit letter comes: how minimize the impact, collect the data you need and even come away actually saving money.
WHITE PAPER
Building Your Vendor Audit Defense
Our white paper is a guide to building your software vendor audit defense, dealing with unused software and reducing your license spend.
GET A CLEAR PICTURE OF APPLICATION DEPLOYMENT AND USAGE
AppClarity provides a unified view into the software landscape, delivering actionable, easy to consume reports. This accurate, granular data streamlines high-touch processes like OS migration, virtualization and rationalization, empowering the enterprise to treat these major projects as business as usual. Uninstalling prohibited or simply unused software is frictionless, while users are able to justify and retain rarely-used software where required.
WHITE PAPER
Application Mapping
Given its sheer scale and complexity, a Windows migration can be one of the most painful, costly and time-intensive IT projects today. There is an undeniable impact on the network, and striking the right balance…
CASE STUDY
Zero-Touch Migration
Housing developer Pedcor completes OS deployment in a few weeks using automated systems management solution to deploy Windows 8 and Microsoft System Center 2012 Configuration Manager (SCCM) to multiple locations.
SAVE MILLIONS BY REMOVING UNUSED SOFTWARE
AppClarity increases cost-efficiency and drives economies of scale on software investments, providing accurate value statements to highlight software license optimization. Automating the heavy lifting around vendor-audit response reduces the man-hour cost, while precise reporting into license reconciliation minimizes the risk of penalties and allows you to start truing down instead of truing up.
WHITE PAPERS
Software Reclaim as a Service
Three of the most common unused applications sitting on your users’ desktops are Microsoft Visio, Microsoft Project, and the Adobe Creative Suite. Removing these unused or rarely used applications can save your organization millions.
Sample Software Reclaim 50k Users
This whitepaper shows an example enterprise of 50,000 users. The sample is based on investment by removing and reusing unused software to address software asset management.
BENEFITS
AppClarity accurately captures and reports application usage across the enterprise, reducing cost, complexity and risk by removing the guesswork around software asset management. Our software puts data to work: automating the reclaim process to minimize application sprawl, saving enterprises millions.
To date, and that’s not even a month since deployment, we have seen savings of $260,000 which accounts for 3,000 reclaimed licenses and that’s only for the first letter of the alphabet of vendors.
Cobie Nel, IM Service Manager Applications, Sasol
Why choose AppClarity?
VISIBILITY
- AppClarity is the fastest way to achieve a true view of software installed and active across the enterprise
- The solution provides the business with accurate and straight forward usage reports on a product-by-product basis, delivering clarity into software utilization and facilitating inventory management
- Software procurement and inventory is reconciled with actual deployment and usage across the IT estate quickly, simply and efficiently
PROACTIVE
- AppClarity is fast to install and easy to use, delivering real, measurable and continuous savings within days
- The solution enables proactive software management: reducing waste and unnecessary spend by removing unused and rarely-used applications. Ensuring that software is only deployed where it is needed
- AppClarity removes the guesswork from the audit-response process, transforming an ad-hoc, reactive process into BAU. Putting the enterprise in control, eliminating business disruption and minimizing unbudgeted cost
SIMPLIFY
- AppClarity provides a unified view into the enterprise software landscape, and enables granular usage analysis from business unit down to individual users
- Reports are easy to consume, delivering straight-forward and actionable data
- The solution streamlines management of software by reclaiming unused applications and automatically removing prohibited software from enterprise devices
CONTROL
- AppClarity provides the enterprise with the ability to proactively manage software and license deployment, keeping the environment in order
- Continuous monitoring of application usage enables the solution to police and prevent software sprawl across the enterprise
- Accurate, up-to-date and easy to consume usage reports put control back in the hands of the business, ensuring that software is distributed to the point of need for as long as required
EMPOWER
- AppClarity empowers the enterprise in license negotiations and audits by providing clear and accurate software usage data
- Accurate reports with detailed usage data enable stakeholders to highlight licensing optimization and cost savings across the enterprise
- The solution brings the end user into the conversation, enabling them to justify and retain rarely-used software where relevant
KEY FEATURES
ACCURATE SOFTWARE INVENTORY INSTANTLY
AppClarity leverages Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager (SCCM) to instantly obtain accurate visibility into all applications deployed across the enterprise. By utilizing the historic information provided by SCCM, AppClarity provides an immediate picture of the applications deployed and their usage, without the need to collect any further information.
NORMALIZED VIEW OF APPLICATIONS
AppClarity analyzes multiple file types to identify applications, filter out irrelevant information, and normalize variances in publisher, product name and version. This information is easily consumable via a single console for all software across the entire estate.
DETECT AND REMOVE UNUSED PC SOFTWARE
AppClarity’s heuristic engine builds an accurate picture of all applications deployed, and calculates actual usage of those applications to provide unrivalled clarity across software deployed within the organization. Every software install is analyzed to determine if it is used, rarely used or unused.
AUTOMATICALLY RECLAIM AND RECYCLE SOFTWARE
AppClarity’s Reclaim process allows for unused applications to be removed from PCs using an automated, policy-based approach. When a software installation is unused or rarely-used it can be uninstalled automatically, or with the user’s approval via an opt-out process.
FINANCIALLY QUANTIFIES WASTE
AppClarity provides detailed reporting with actionable results, without having to review pages of data. All unused software is collated into a single financial report with information outlining the total waste and potential savings. Cost savings achieved through removing unnecessary software can be tracked and reported on a continual basis.
SIMPLE TRAFFIC LIGHT COMPLIANCE SYSTEM
AppClarity’s unique traffic light compliance system informs targeted license compliance reporting. By automatically reconciling deployed software with licenses purchased, AppClarity delivers fast, accurate and comprehensive liability and compliance reports.
RESTRICTS THE USE OF PROHIBITED APPLICATIONS
Administrators can set policies to remove unauthorized applications within the environment. These can be global or specific to a group of machines or users, and can ensure that the organization is only held liable for those applications it has licensed.
APPCLARITY AND NON-SCCM ENVIRONMENTS
For organizations without SCCM, AppClarity utilizes the 1E Agent to collect inventory and usage information directly from the endpoint PCs. This provides the same granular inventory and usage information; allowing non-SCCM environments to enjoy the same benefits from AppClarity.
OUR CUSTOMERS INCLUDE
