iQuate Announces iQSonar for Microsoft
iQuate Press - 5:00 pm - July 10, 2011
Advanced technology to help Microsoft LARs leverage SAM incentive program
At the Microsoft World Partner Conference, Los Angeles, iQuate announced availability of iQSonar for Microsoft. iQSonar’s powerful discovery platform is focused on Data Center and Server technologies and is configured to give Microsoft customers and partners detailed and accurate information about their Microsoft products and the environment on which they are installed.
This information is critical to the management and control of Microsoft deployments by providing a verifiably accurate basis for effective Software Asset Management (SAM) programs.
“Microsoft has been promoting the benefits of effective Software Asset Management to its customers for several years” commented Pat Durkin, iQuate CEO. “Now with the imminent partner SAM Services incentive program aimed at Large Account Resellers (LARs), they are actively promoting the benefits of SAM to their most important resellers. The biggest risk to customers and most significant area of reward for partners is in the complex data center environment which accounts for approximately 80% of enterprise software budgets. Unfortunately, SAM programs have traditionally not extended successfully into this environment because of the underlying complexity and this has left customers exposed to risk, with vendors and their partners missing out on valuable revenue opportunities. Now iQSonar gives customers and partners the ability to deliver effective SAM across the data center.”
“The SAM services incentive program has the potential to deliver real benefits to the LAR community” added Jason Keogh, iQuate CTO “but without a reliable source of accurate data covering the complex physical, virtual and cloud-based mix that makes up the modern data center, partners will fail to maximize these benefits. iQSonar provides multi-platform, agentless discovery and inventory to Enterprise customers worldwide. iQSonar has been engineered specifically to provide details for Windows based Virtualized environments, SQL Server, MS Cluster Services and other server technologies so partners can finally achieve clarity and maximize the rewards of delivering effective and complete SAM services to their customers.”
At the WPC Awards in July 2011 Microsoft will acknowledge iQuate as Finalist for Global Partner of the Year award in the category Software Asset Management Innovation. iQuate will be exhibiting at WPC at booth #328 as part of Ireland@MicrosoftWPC2011
