USU - Business Service Management

With the Valuemation SAM/License Manager, you'll always have a current overview of the software licenses installed at your company as well as of those actually in use. This will let you adjust the number and type off licenses to best fit your software usage. At the same time, you'll avoid over/under licensing and document your compliance with contractual terms and conditions as well as legal regulations in an audit-compliant manner. In short, you'll be fully prepared for a software audit.

New: With the integration of Aspera SmartTrack, additional services are available to you now also in Valuemation:

Master Catalog and Extended Catalog - the catalog covers out-of-the-box 80% of the products in the scope of a license management project plus - with the help of the Extended Catalog - additional client-specific, individual software
License Clearing ensures the highest possible collection rate of purchased licenses and their correctly mapping
Software Recognition enables you to review and process software usage data from metering and/or inventory tools.

Your Benefits: With the SAM/License Manager, you'll increase your added value and have greater legal certainty when using your software assets by:

Specifically using and managing your software licenses to meet your exact needs
Cutting costs and using framework agreements by license pooling
Have ready access to all services provided in IT contracts and their applicable terms and conditions
Quickly finding unlicensed software or unauthorized ("bootleg") copies
Avoiding liability risks that could threaten your company by keeping your software use in full compliance with the law.

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Valuemation provides you with all relevant information on the entire IT asset life cycle - from initial procurement on down to ultimate disposal. In addition to the License Manager, the following specialized modules are also available:

Asset Manager for achieving the greatest transparency over your entire IT inventory
CMDB Manager for quick access to the latest IT configuration data
Contract Manager for managing contracts and suppliers
Procurement Manager for acquisition of IT equipment, resources and services
CMDB Manager for quick access to the latest IT configuration data
Service Request Manager for automated application for and approval of IT goods and services

When it comes to License Management, Valuemation's and SmartTrack's proven strengths have already been well recognized by numerous international analysts:

"USU is an option to consider for large organizations looking for a well-rounded IT service and asset management toolset from a company with a strong commitment to development and history of working with its customers to keep products up-to-date and competitive."
ECPweb.com; Tools Manager by ECPweb.com, April 2010)
"SmartTrack exceeds our expectations in software license management, and enhancements to the software catalog make it a technology leader."
ECPweb.com; Tools Manager by ECPweb.com, June 2010)
"We believe that USU's strong financial capabilities will appeal to many customers where IT finance is driving the initiative, but additional work in the ITSM tool suite area will improve USU's appeal to IT operations."
(Gartner, Inc.; MarketScope for the IT Asset Management Repository, 2010 - April 29, 2010)
"USU Software is extremely function-rich and able to compete well with the rest of the full- blown IT asset lifecycle management and IT service management (ITSM) suites out there."
(Forrester Research Inc.; The Forrester Wave™: IT Asset Life-Cycle Management, Q2 2009 - April 10, 2009)

You can download recent evaluations by analysts free of charge.

Since the end of 2008, USU has been an Industry Member of the International Business Software Managers Association (IBSMA), which is headquartered in the United States and is the world's largest non-profit organization of IT specialists dedicated to business software applications.

FIDUCIA IT AG, a major German IT provider deploys USU Valuemation for its software license management. At the Software Asset Management Summit of the IBSMA in 2008, the FIDUCIA corporate license manager was recognized as the "SAM Practitioner of the Year, 2008" for excellent practical application of Software Asset Management. For more information, you can also read: