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Software usage

Software Usage Survey
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How effective is your organisation in managing your software estate and its related costs?

Recent research shows that organisations in the UK waste more than £300 per desktop on unused/redundant software. There are also challenges around license compliance, cost allocation and managing peaks and troughs in working patterns.

To understand where your organisation stands, you are invited to participate in our survey. It will take no more than 5 minutes to complete the survey. Start the survey now by clicking on the Continue button below.
 
 
 
* How effectively does your organisation control its spend on the licensing, maintenance and support of software?
 
Don't know - no specific monitoring
 
Some control - by limiting licenses deployed
 
Partial control - by managing vendor invoices
 
Full control - by monitoring specific usage
 
 
 
* Which statement best represents your view on how your organisation is managing software?
 
We have too many licenses
 
We underestimate our need for licenses
 
We closely monitor how software is used
 
Don't know
 
 
 
* What level of confidence do you have that your organisation knows what software is actually used?
 
Low confidence
 
Medium confidence
 
High confidence
 
Don't know
 
 
 
* Which statement best represents your view on where and how software is monitored in your organisation?
 
By deploying licenses to individuals/users
 
By measuring which software product is used by which individual
 
By tracking software products by usage, department, spend and business value
 
Don't know
 
 
 
* How does your organisation decide on the level of licenses needed when negotiating with a software vendor?
 
Relying on the software vendor's advice
 
Falling back on a site or enterprise license
 
Evidencing past and planned usage by individual and department
 
Don't know
 
 
 
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