By John Emmitt (with a big nod to Robert L. May and Johnny Marks)
You know audits and “reviews” and true-ups and EULAs
EA and SA and SaaS and renewals
But do you really have
A truly mature SAM1 program?
Rudolph the red-eyed asset manager
Had a very scary spreadsheet
And if you ever saw it
You would be knocked right off your feet
All of the other departments
Had fancy automated tools
The company never let poor Rudolph
Get next gen asset management tools
Then one nasty software audit
The CIO came to see
If Rudolph really had optimized SAM
How much time and money they could save
Then how the C-level loved him
And they shouted out with glee
“Rudolph the red-eyed asset manager
Soon you’ll be a CIO like me!”
Happy Holidays and Best Wishes for a Happy New Year!
Notes:
- SAM: Software Asset Management
- You might also enjoy this older Software License Optimization blog: ‘Twas the Night Before Audit
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