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In order to succeed in Software Asset Management, you will have to build a good structure around you. Little help is offered, ITIL and ISO Standards contain some information, but most of the time you will have to deal with the lack of standards on your own.

When working with Software Asset Management the value of historical records are often underestimated. Good historical records are the bases on which you build your efforts to create a good Software Asset Management regime. When you have the historical records in place, building records for the present day situation is a lot simpler.The historical records can be of value to document upgrade history, versions and publishers.

Internal control or self assessment is an important tool you should use to document that you keep the desired level of quality. Learn how to establish the metrics and hwo to do self assessment of the process. Self Assessment is the tool to use when you have a SLA agreement with your users. Document the quality and improve your services in a continous process.

To find the perfect userID you need to forget present your strategy for naming conventions. You should choose a naming convention which makes it simple and easy to follow up on the users regardless of the systems they are using. With payroll ID as the naming convention you not only have a smart common key, you can reduce follow up time to minutes instead of days and best all - someone else is managing the list for you.

Even with excellent tools Software Assset Management, can be a time consuming task. Identification and normalization of your portfolio can be the task where your projects slows down or turns into a disaster. Identifying all software in your network may be close to impossible with access to our database with more than 11500 publishers.