Service Details

Risk Mitigation approach

Let’s get proactive. Understand financial, legal, security and reputation risks. Create robust policies that provide context of importance, allowing employees and stakeholders to act accordingly.

Cost Optimization

Manage and forecast IT spend based on accurate, trustworthy data. Plan ahead to avoid costly mistakes for the business and ensure the best commercial and contractual agreements with publishers and service providers.

Sustainable Lifecycle Management

Develop an ITAM governance strategy with a steering committee to provide a repeatable flow from input to feedback to maintain strategic alignment and control throughout the lifecycle of all IT investments.

SAM Tooling Specialists

We specialize in all significant SAM tools, including USU, ILMT BigFix, Eracent, Flexera, ServiceNow, and Snow. We provide tooling services; we are not a reseller. We can give you the best recommendations based on your needs.

Managed Services

Time and money invested in a SAM Tool are wasted if you can’t produce the desired outcomes. From supplementing an internal team to wholesale outsourcing, our expert-managed services teams deliver every time.

Configuration

Most license management tools fail to deliver because they are poorly. Configured. We help you avoid wasted time and unnecessary pain by allowing you to configure your tools correctly.

Publisher Onboarding & Reconciliation

Don’t assume your SAM Tool will auto-magically reconcile your key publishers. Our onboarding teams have the deep publisher-specific licensing expertise to ensure that your purchases, entitlements, licenses, metrics, evidence, and titles are accurately mapped, loaded, and reported.

Installation & Implementation

We don’t just install bits, stand-up servers, or roll-out agents. We ensure your tooling infrastructure is architected to perform at scale. We also provide your data design and strategy are set up for maximum integrity and performance.

SAM Tool Evaluation & Selection

Choosing the right software asset management tool(s) to meet your needs can take time and effort. Our. The proven methodology helps you quickly identify the best solutions for your requirements. Our experience cuts through the clutter, holds vendors accountable for their claims, and saves time and money.

Baselines

Most SAM solutions compare inventory and purchasing data but miss the detailed licensing rules required to measure true license entitlement and consumption. We use a combination of proprietary scripts, data collection methodologies, and commercial tools to deliver a full inventory. Our experts then calculate consumption and compare it against license entitlement to give you a truer picture.

Contract Analysis

We have extensive experience analyzing contracts, purchasing records and history, and software publisher-provided reports such as Microsoft MLS and IBM Passport Advantage (PPA) reports.

Negotiation Support

Vendor contract negotiations can be stressful and sometimes contentious. We help you negotiate from a position of knowledge and strength. Passive – We can provide “behind the scenes” negotiation strategies, ghost-write components of responses, and draft recommended agreement language. Active – We can act as a third party to help broker a commercial resolution.

Risk Assessment

Most companies don’t know where to start in managing their software environment in today’s complex landscape. GateTech Risk Assessment delivers prioritized, actionable steps to improve your situation no matter where you are in the journey. Our experts review your agreements, evaluate your publisher and product mix, and perform a detailed spend analysis.

License Optimization

Most companies spend too much on software licenses compared to the true internal demand for software services. Our Optimization Assessment covers every aspect of right-sizing, including license consolidation, infrastructure optimization, contract optimization, improving documentation, license transfer, or re-harvesting. Only GateTech's licensing experts can help you with specialty topics unique to specific software publishers such as indirect access, partitioning, disaster recovery, virtualization, and product bundling.