ISO 19770-1, simplifies the management and review of software and licenses.

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The Software Asset Management (SAM) standard, ISO 19770-1, facilitates the management and review of software and licenses. The result of a Swedish initiative, ISO 19770 provides support for organisations battling with evermore complex license agreements.

ISO 19770-1 the standard for Software Asset Management

There is a lot to be gained from managing IT assets in a structured manner. Simpler management will permit more effective cost control and also provides more opportunity to prevent and deal with risks.

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Snow Software has been working together with ISO/IEC since 2003 to create the standard. In the spring of 2006 the standard was finally completed.

Snow License Manager, a product by Snow Software, supports the license management processes as defined by ISO 19770. In the table below you can see how our Snow License Manager follow all the requirements in ISO 19770.

ISO Requirements

Capabilities in Snow License Manager

Control environment
Corporate governance
Roles and responsibilities
Policies, processes and procedures
Competence in SAM

Enable organisational units local control and visibility by appointing assets to different locations or parts of the organisation.

Ensure that your policies and procedures concerning software deployment, computer usage, asset acquisitions etc. are complied with.

Planning and implementation
Planning for and implementation
Monitoring and review
Continual improvement of SAM

You can easily plan your time, resources and budget for upgrades, migration and change management as well as for software asset management projects.

Control the development of your products and track changes in software or hardware within the network, almost in real-time.

License Manager's innovative graphical user interface makes it easy for you to spread important asset information to stakeholders.

ISO Requirements

Capabilities in Snow License Manager

Inventory processes

Software asset identification

Software asset inventory management
Software asset control

Create an accurate inventory containing all software and hardware assets including servers, laptops and stationary computers.

Get an up-to-date overview of your IT assets and how they are used.

Identify the location of your assets to get a better comprehension of all your resources.

Helps you control and supervise practices for IT-acquisitions.

Create an accurate inventory containing all software and hardware assets, including servers, laptops as well as stationary computers.

Get an up-to-date overview of your IT assets and how they are used.

Identify the location of your assets and get a better comprehension of all your resources.

Supply a method for you to control and supervise practices for IT-acquisitions.

Verification and compliance
Software asset record verification
Software license compliance

Snow License Manager provides you with information such as name, publisher and licensing status for all software found in your network.

Direct status information about under or over licensed applications.

Operation Management
Relationship and contract management
Financial management
Service level management
Security management

Make negotiations with software and hardware vendors easier by knowing your licensing status and actual needs.

Automatically harmonise bought licenses with licenses discovered in the network.

Store all information concerning software assets, implementation and services centrally.

Simplify planning and allocation of the IT budget. Base invoicing on usage of different organisation units and administrate acquisitions.

ISO Requirements

Capabilities in Snow License Manager

Life cycle
Change management process
Acquisition process
Software development process
Software release management
Software deployment
Incident management
Problem management
Retirement process

Track your software assets through the entire life cycle - from acquisition to disposal

Enables you to monitor and control different application versions within your network.

Use your licenses efficiently by re-distributing unused or unwanted applications to other parts of the organisation.

Plan and supervise the deployment of applications, OS, patches etc.

Provide excessive up-to-date information for integration with your problem management and help desk tools.