In today’s recessionary climate, organisations must gain control of their IT environment for three key reasons:

Cost Avoidance

Reducing total expenditure is a priority for IT departments. Being either over or under-licensed means you are wasting thousands of pounds annually. So you must ensure you are:

• Not procuring any unnecessary licences
• Utilising all your software to its maximum effect
• Not paying for unnecessary support and maintenance.

Compliance

Alongside the regulatory driver, software vendors see compliance as their route to new licence sales, offsetting smaller IT customer budgets by taking a zero tolerance approach to illegal software usage. Organisations who adopt SAM best practice can achieve upto 25 percent savings immediately by reducing maintenance and internal business costs.

Change and Complexity

Technology change is creating more complex licensing schemes and vendor agreements, making it difficult for companies to keep abreast of licensing regulations and contracts. Plus managing software with the advent of technologies such as cloud computing, virtualisation and SaaS is no easy task. M&A activity also introduces complexity into the management of software.

It’s All about Trust!

Organisations need a ‘trusted’ partner to advise how best to cope with these business challenges. Trustmarque Solutions can help ascertain the best strategy to rationalise your IT environment, saving time and money by:

• Helping to better qualify business risk
• Providing guidance on cost effective software procurement and maintenance
• Always working with your best interests in mind.

Trustmarque are software management experts with a range of Software Licensing Services to help meet the challenge of cost avoidance, compliance and change/complexity. These include: Renewals Management, Procurement Management, Entitlement Management, Software Asset Management, Licensing Consultancy, Portfolio and Catalogue Management

Established in 1987, Trustmarque Solutions has an outstanding track record of successfully delivering solutions to our customers, largely due to the quality, experience and dedication of our people.

Trustmarque Solutions is a software licensing and services company specialising in all facets of software management. We are one of the largest software licensing companies in the UK and offer solutions to our customers to help them avoid unnecessary IT costs, deploy best practice IT as well as mitigate the risk of IT non-compliance.

Not only is Trustmarque a Microsoft Large Account Reseller (LAR) with Microsoft Gold Certified Partner status but they partner with many other major vendors in the IT market such as: Adobe, Business Objects, CA, Citrix, McAfee, Nuance, Sophos, Symantec, Trend, VMware and Websense to name but a few.

In short, Gardner Systems and Trustmarque have a vast experience of IT compliance and we can ensure you:-

• Achieve and maintain a legally compliant position
• Are in control of your software estate
• Ensure better pricing with vendors
• Reduce training costs through knowledge transfer
• Centralise purchasing and management of software licenses
• Reduce the total cost of ownership of your software
• Create a robust and effective SAM infrastructure
• Through our consultative ‘hands-on’ approach we can manage all your vendor software licences, across the whole of your organisation, saving you significant time and money.

How can we help?

We are experts in software licensing and software management and for many years, we have been helping our clients to:-

• Develop detailed and comprehensive network audits
• Establish their legal licence position
• Assess SAM policies and procedures in accordance with the IT Infrastructure Library (ITIL) guideline
• Undertake quarterly reviews to help with:
• Compliance
• Licence renewals
• Maintenance agreement renewals
• Advice on future licence purchases and requirements
• Knowledge of actual software use