software license audit
Always be audit ready
The best defense is a good offense. Flexera helps you build that exceptional offense by automatically calculating software license requirements based on verified usage data, so you can optimally negotiate license agreements and ensure always-on compliance.
Proactively prepare for a software license audit
Unparalleled audit preparation
Be prepared for an audit
Software audits aren’t going away. In fact, with the increasing complexity of hybrid ITAM environments they’re increasing. Without automated visibility, IT pros spend weeks preparing for just one audit and don’t have the time to get control of software license compliance beyond the top two or three publishers, which puts the organization at considerable risk. To prepare for an audit, you need real-time visibility into your compliance position. Flexera helps you obtain information about your technology estate from multiple sources and automatically cleanses, normalizes, standardizes and enriches it with curated content from Technopedia.
Automated accurate inventory
Complete inventory data
Inaccurate data doesn’t just lead to poor optimization decisions, it can lead to a software audit. Defend against software vendor audits with automated, accurate inventory and IT asset usage data. Flexera helps you prepare for vendor audits by calculating software license requirements based on verified usage data from on-premises, to cloud, to SaaS. Plus it has over 5,500 product use templates—so not only can you stay in compliance, but you can find the best away to utilize your applications to save more money.
Breeze through an audit
ITAM is essential for audits
IT asset management (ITAM) is the first line of defense as vendor audits, regulatory compliance and security threats dominate your risk exposure. With consistent, clean, complete and accurate data, you avoid messy vendor and compliance audits. When you're informed about what’s in the environment, you can quickly determine your level of financial and security exposure. When the auditors come knocking, you’ll have all the information you need to fend them off and avoid unbudgeted audit expenses.
Data matters for compliance
Software data you can trust
You can’t be ready for software audits with inaccurate data. Effective asset management and software vendor compliance hinges on trustworthy data. Flexera has the largest software catalog (across SaaS, on-premises and cloud environments) in the industry and our solutions are built from the ground up to ensure you have trustworthy and verified data to prepare you for any software audits with confidence.
The biggest challenge in our organization was getting a handle on our entire software portfolio, which was kind of a manual process initially. Additionally, there was a need for more visibility and real-time data around effective license positions, which really was what brought us to the business case.
Software Asset Manager, Global Insurance Company
Frequently asked questions
Manual ELP (effective license position) reporting can take months without automated visibility. With automated reporting of application usage, you can get near-real-time visibility into how licenses are used to ensure compliance. Customers have been able to reduce the time to prepare for an audit by up to 90%.
With our automated visibility, expert team and value realization services, Flexera can normally help prepare for an audit in less than 90 days. Flexera is also verified by Oracle for Oracle Databases and Database Options, Oracle Middleware, Oracle Java and Oracle E-Business Suite and is the only IBM license tool alternative (ILMT), You can rest easy knowing that your software vendors trust in Flexera’s data.
Flexera’s software asset management solutions help organizations understand their ELP for thousands of vendors, and our technology intelligence recognizes over 900,000 applications. The most common vendors include IBM, SAP, Microsoft and Oracle, including installation details of Oracle Java.
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