The focus on general compliance issues is getting in the
way of achieving the benefits of
software asset management
(SAM).
A survey conducted by SAM consultant Liken Group reveals that
87% of IT and SAM executives questioned felt that a growing focus
on compliance-only criteria meant SAM targets under the
ISO/IEC 19770-1 standard were
unsustainable.
Other areas of the standard such as risk mitigation and cost
control are also being sidelined, says the research, by an
ill informed, short-sighted approach at board
level, which some respondents described as a “tick-box”
compliance culture.
In the survey, 87% of respondents felt that unless the situation
changed drastically, their organisations would be unlikely to meet
full SAM targets over the next 12 months.
Of these, 80% felt that the situation had worsened markedly over
the last 12 months, as enterprise wide compliance-only business
drivers have taken centre stage.
Of those who feared for their own company’s ability to achieve
and sustain ISO 19770-1, 95% felt it was due to a top-down squeeze
on internal resources, and 83% said a lack of board level
understanding of the benefits of the standard as a whole package
was to blame.
In addition, 82% of those who expressed concerns were worried
that other benefits of the standard, such as risk mitigation and
cost control, would be lost.
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