Government IT departments face the dual pressures of severe budget restrictions and a growing list of strategic objectives—from gaining efficiencies and savings through software virtualization and migrating to Windows 7 to implementing software licensing management best practices that ensure software compliance and optimized spend—all geared towards increasing department or agency innovation, efficiency and productivity.
For government IT, modernizing operations and enhancing services while reducing IT costs is a growing priority. Software spend represents an opportunity to deliver measurable savings. The budget for software licensing and maintenance (as much as 80% of ongoing IT budgets) is a prime area for cost control. IT and procurement should be looking to squeeze maximum value out of the IT software budget. But while applications have become strategic to business operations and total investment in applications continues to climb, they are amongst the least well managed of all strategic assets.
Controlling software spend and optimizing software licenses starts with a comprehensive Enterprise License Optimization strategy designed to:
Enterprise License Optimization centralizes software licensing management and extends software asset management across the organization to deliver measurable IT cost reductions on an ongoing basis.
Many government departments and agencies are planning Windows 7 migrations and find application compatibility to be a primary challenge. To solve this, they look to application readiness solutions that encompass automated application compatibility testing, application packaging and software virtualization to accelerate and streamline the migration process. Windows 7 migrations have significant impact on IT in terms of time, budget and internal reputation. Ensuring application compatibility and deploying applications for optimal performance and functionality is an essential requirement.
To simplify the management and deployment of applications, many departments are combining Windows 7 migrations with software virtualization projects with the goal of an optimized desktop. IT organizations can smooth Windows 7 and software virtualization migrations with Flexera Software AdminStudio Suite, an application readiness solution that reduces risk, time and costs by fixing application compatibility issues. AdminStudio helps develop clearly defined, trackable and repeatable processes for both Windows 7 and software virtualization migrations.
With the power of centralized software licensing management made possible through an Enterprise License Optimization solution, organizations can ensure that the right users have the right software at the right time, tighten the reins on software spend and use budget savings to further other strategic objectives.
An Enterprise License Optimization solution can also ensure your department or agency is in continuous software licensing compliance by:
Amy Konary from IDC shares findings from the Flexera Software survey.
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