What do Industry Researchers say about Software Assets Management - SAM?

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• Having just ‘some’ virtualisation ‘somewhere’ could cost you at least $4.56m in Oracle non- compliance charges according to solicitor at European law firm -Stibbe
• 46% of ERP licenses are unused - AMR Research, Computer Weekly
• Not managing software licenses is like leaving $1,000 bearer bonds in desk drawers and forgetting about them - Head of Global Operations, BP
• Approximately 60% of an organisations portfolio is likely to be over licensed, offering an excellent ROI on Software over spend -Forrester
• An estimated 35% of software is illegally installed resulting in a $34 Billion loss to software vendors worldwide - Gartner
• 53 % of enterprises indicate that a portion of software license spend is associated with applications that are overused and therefore out of compliance.- Forrester