Ready for an Audit?Got any under licensed software
in your organization ?

Are You Ready for an Audit?

With vendor audits on the rise, more organizations are facing surprise costs and penalties in respect of unlicensed software. But, how to ensure that you don’t get caught out?

Could You Be In For A Surprise?

Most software license audits result in an unpleasant surprise. That is because even in tightly controlled environments, normal daily activities, across the network, can result in unplanned and untraceable ‘licensing slide’:

• Software is downloaded, for example on a trial basis
• New users are added to an application
• Applications are ported to new machines with different processors

The problem is that these activities often take place ‘below the radar’ in terms of traditional network monitoring, or audit tools and consequently fall outside the IT manager’s control.

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Are You Fully Prepared? 

iQuate’s IT audit, monitoring and inventory solutions take the risk out of license audits, providing a verifiable record of all software installed and in use. Because they are fast, accurate and flexible they minimize the administrative burden normally associated with compliance.

iQuate’s tools also enable a more proactive approach to license reconciliation – cutting license costs by pin-pointing unused, underused and over licensed software.

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