Software Asset Management (SAM) Tools Reviews and Ratings

What are SAM Tools?

Software asset management (SAM) tools are solutions that provide automation to support tasks required to produce and maintain compliance with independent software vendor (ISV) license use rights, while improving an organization’s ability to proactively identify and optimize software risk and spend. SAM tools provide in-depth software asset analysis through:

- Conducting discovery

- Analyzing software license entitlements

- Automating the collection of software consumption data

- Establishing ISV effective license position (ELP)

- Governing software assets

- Optimizing software value delivery

- Sharing information with other tools and stakeholders

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Flexera delivers Saas-based IT management solutions that enable enterprises to accelerate digital transformation and multiply the value of their technical investments. We help organizations inform their IT with definitive visibility into complex hybrid IT ecosystems, providing unparalleled IT insights that allow them to seize technology opportunities. And we help them transform their IT with tools that deliver actionable intelligence across an ever-increasing range of dimensions to effectively manage, govern and optimize their hybrid IT estate. More than 50,000 customers subscribe to our technology value optimization solutions, delivered by 1,300+ passionate team members worldwide.

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Flexera delivers Saas-based IT management solutions that enable enterprises to accelerate digital transformation and multiply the value of their technical investments. We help organizations inform their IT with definitive visibility into complex hybrid IT ecosystems, providing unparalleled IT insights that allow them to seize technology opportunities. And we help them transform their IT with tools that deliver actionable intelligence across an ever-increasing range of dimensions to effectively manage, govern and optimize their hybrid IT estate. More than 50,000 customers subscribe to our technology value optimization solutions, delivered by 1,300+ passionate team members worldwide.

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Certero provide solutions and services that enable customers to see, govern and optimize costs with IT assets across the full scope of their infrastructure.

This ranges from FinOps, to tackling Shadow IT, managing IT hardware and software throughout the lifecycle, to gaining real-time strategic insight into technology consumption and addressing the more focused challenges around software license compliance and optimization of investments for mega-vendors like Microsoft, IBM, Oracle, SAP, Adobe and more.

The Certero Platform provides a ‘single pane of glass’ to manage IT assets all in one place by simply activating the Certero products and features you need. Certero combine this unique technology with a range of optional consultancy services; delivered as one to connect the dots between best practices, expertise, process, automation and your business.

This uniquely agile ‘Technology-Led Services’ approach ensures that no matter what the challenge is, value is always achieved.

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As the enterprise IT management division of Zoho Corp., ManageEngine empowers you to take control of your IT, from your security, networks, and servers to your applications, service desk, Active Directory, desktops, and mobile devices.

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Ivanti manages and secures Everywhere Work environments so that organizations and employees can improve their digital employee experience (DEX). Ivanti technology focuses on empowering IT and employees. Ivanti solutions let IT and employees use a wide range of corporate and personal devices to access IT applications and data over multiple networks to stay productive. Ivanti solutions find, manage and protect each IT asset and endpoint in an organization, no matter the OS. Over 40,000 customers, including 88 of the Fortune 100, have chosen Ivanti to help them deliver an excellent digital employee experience and improve IT and security team productivity and efficiency.

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USU is a provider of software and services for IT and customer service management and empowers companies to meet the demands of today’s digital world. Global companies use the solutions to cut costs, drive agility, and reduce risk — with smarter services, streamlined workflows, and improved collaboration. With over 40 years of experience and locations worldwide, the USU team helps customers move into the future.

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BMC works with 86% of the Forbes Global 50 and customers and partners around the world to create their future. With a history of innovation, industry-leading automation, operations, and service management solutions, combined with unmatched flexibility, BMC helps organizations free up time and space to become an Autonomous Digital Enterprise that conquers the opportunities ahead.

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Lansweeper is a company dedicated to simplifying information technology management complexities. It specifically addresses the problem of tracking the assets an organization has to manage. Its main focus is on centralizing IT asset data, proving to be essential for a greater understanding and management of a company’s IT landscape. The company offers an IT Inventory Platform designed to provide complete visibility into an organization's IT operations. Lansweeper helps identify unknown assets in a company’s environment and centralize management into a sole solution. It also substantially economizes the time IT teams spend on routine tasks like network discovery, inventory management, software distribution, licensing, and updates while fitting within limited IT budgets. In addition to asset management, Lansweeper also emphasizes the significance of visibility for basic cyber hygiene. The company promotes regular inspection and verification to ensure cybersecurity.

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ServiceNow's cloud‑based platform and solutions help digitize and unify organizations so that they can find smarter, faster, better ways to make work flow. So employees and customers can be more connected, more innovative, and more agile.

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Open iT is a globally recognized organization specializing in development of hardware and software usage tracking, reporting services, and optimization solutions. The company focuses on providing IT optimization solutions by measuring resource utilization and developing tools for analyzing software usage. Open iT has over two decades of experience in engineering software license management, offering effective out-of-the-box solutions that address IT asset management challenges. The company's expertise lies in software asset management solutions, specifically in engineering applications. It continues to expand and cover more software vendors including business apps, cloud-based apps, and Software as a Service platforms. Open iT also deals with IT chargeback, vendor analysis, simulation of software licensing models, software optimization, and more, reflecting its dedication to optimizing IT assets.

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InvGate builds the tools that IT teams use to enable every other team in the company. Its portfolio consists of two stand-alone, highly integrated products: An ITSM and an ITAM solution.

Both the Service Management and Asset Management products are no-code solutions that give you the autonomy to make any changes you need as you grow, without the hassle of consulting fees for custom developments.

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Flexera delivers Saas-based IT management solutions that enable enterprises to accelerate digital transformation and multiply the value of their technical investments. We help organizations inform their IT with definitive visibility into complex hybrid IT ecosystems, providing unparalleled IT insights that allow them to seize technology opportunities. And we help them transform their IT with tools that deliver actionable intelligence across an ever-increasing range of dimensions to effectively manage, govern and optimize their hybrid IT estate. More than 50,000 customers subscribe to our technology value optimization solutions, delivered by 1,300+ passionate team members worldwide.

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SymphonyAI specializes in AI-based IT Service Management. It combines Service, Asset, and Operations Management to facilitate enterprise productivity. By utilizing machine reasoning and codeless workflow automation, SymphonyAI strives to generate substantial savings in IT Help Desk Operations and improve the Total Cost of Ownership.

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Xensam Software Asset Management, established in 2016, focuses on developing advanced software asset management (SAM) solutions. The main goal is to facilitate the work of SAM Managers and IT Leaders by promoting wider and easier access to essential SAM data. This is achieved through the implementation of innovative features and automatization. Xensam's comprehensive SAM solution caters to a range of software environments, whether on-premise or in the cloud, and guarantees a high level of security. Its unique approach is based on insights from Software Asset Managers, which ensures its applications are aligned closely with real-world needs and challenges relating to software asset management.

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Ivanti manages and secures Everywhere Work environments so that organizations and employees can improve their digital employee experience (DEX). Ivanti technology focuses on empowering IT and employees. Ivanti solutions let IT and employees use a wide range of corporate and personal devices to access IT applications and data over multiple networks to stay productive. Ivanti solutions find, manage and protect each IT asset and endpoint in an organization, no matter the OS. Over 40,000 customers, including 88 of the Fortune 100, have chosen Ivanti to help them deliver an excellent digital employee experience and improve IT and security team productivity and efficiency.

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Oomnitza offers a versatile Enterprise Technology Management solution for asset lifecycle management and IT process automation. Our agentless SaaS platform transforms multi-source data from your existing IT, security and business systems to deliver comprehensive visibility and actionable asset inventory for better technology data hygiene and audit readiness. We enable organizations to confidently automate their technology workflows using standardized applications and low-code workflows to reduce manual tasks, service tickets, security risks and redundant technology spend.

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The 1E Platform is a real-time autonomous DEX solution that fixes digital workforce problems fast and forever, improving compliance, reducing costs, and delivering an enhanced digital experience for users.​ 1E offers a wide array of key capabilities including autonomous digital workplace management, endpoint troubleshooting, endpoint automation, employee sentiment surveys and notifications, user experience analytics, patch management, virtual assistant for ServiceNow, ServiceNow embedded troubleshooting and remediation, application experience management (AXM), hardware and software asset management, virtual desktop experience (VDX), software reclaim, content distribution for Microsoft Configuration Manager, hardware lifecycle management, digital experience observability, real-time actions for Microsoft Intune, low code/no code automation, hybrid edge AI, predictive AI user sentiment analytics, and causal AI insights and recommendations.

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Belarc, based in Maynard, MA, is a company focused on creating and licensing online solutions aimed at enhancing the ease of use and management of personal computers by big corporations, small companies, and private consumers. The main problem that Belarc solves revolves around system management, with its products specializing in fields such as software license compliance, hardware upgrade planning, cyber security status assessment, information assurance audits, and IT asset and configuration management.

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USU is a provider of software and services for IT and customer service management and empowers companies to meet the demands of today’s digital world. Global companies use the solutions to cut costs, drive agility, and reduce risk — with smarter services, streamlined workflows, and improved collaboration. With over 40 years of experience and locations worldwide, the USU team helps customers move into the future.

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Sassafras Software specializes in Software Asset Management (SAM) tools, establishing itself as a pioneer in the industry. Originating with its ground-breaking KeyServer product over two decades back, Sassafras Software has continued to innovate and refine. The result is the KeyServer Platform, a comprehensive tool set for both Hardware and Software Asset Management. It's engineered to handle today's complex physical, virtual, and cross-platform computing environments. Furthermore, the platform's subcomponent, Sassafras AllSight, plays a critical role in license compliance and software cost reduction for various corporate, educational, and government enterprises worldwide. The company's technology is also trusted by many software publishers.

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Features of Software Asset Management Tools

Mandatory Features:

  • Share software asset information: Consume and produce information for use across other organizational functions, systems and processes. A central system of record for IT assets enables the enterprise to manage vendors and software assets throughout their life cycles.

  • Conduct discovery: Interrogate networks to find the physical, virtual and cloud platforms upon which software executes. Explore vendor portals, procurement systems and other data sources to obtain software contract and purchase records.

  • Capture entitlements: Analyze software contracts, purchases and procurement records to obtain the entitlements for software consumption conferred by a given license agreement.

  • Normalize data: Consolidate multiple platform consumption datasets and other data sources to resolve duplicated or conflicting records. Consolidate multiple software entitlement records and other supporting data. This creates a single, accurate, organized and categorized dataset.

  • Identify platform consumption: Capture platform-agnostic configuration data and extract a list of all software and software consumption levels. Identifying the software installed on, accessed on or executing upon a platform (as in the case of instance-based software licenses) is foundational to SAM.

  • Optimize software entitlements and consumption: Track changes to software license models, and improve and balance software spending by comparing usage to estimated demand for the quantity, type and expense of licenses needed and in use.

  • Govern: Allow organizations to properly allocate licenses, proactively identify remediation actions for inaccurate data and noncompliance, and automate workflows to improve process compliance.

  • Reconcile: Correlate contract, purchase and entitlement records with normalized platform inventory data. This creates an effective license position (ELP), which is the comparison of recorded license entitlements to actual license consumption. ELP provides a basis for compliance management, risk reduction, audit defense, contract (re)negotiations, license “true-ups” and software spend optimization.