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Managing Software: An Integral Intangible Org. Asset.
Vineet Sood
Symantec
What are Assets?
Last Long Time Large Cost Can be Sold
Item in use Debtors Money in Bank
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FIXED CURRENT
BALANCE SHEET VIEW:
Asset Management
Property Manager: Rooms/Villas Stock Manager: Equity’s Channel Mgr: Partner’s*
IT Manager ?
* We don’t own the Partners but we still manage them for best mutual results.
What’s a Software?
Is Software a ‘Good’ ? Is it a ‘Service’ ? Fixed asset ? Tangible or INTANGIBLE ?
A software license agreement is a contract between the "licensor" and purchaser of the right to use software.
The TAX laws on software show that we as community have inconsistent views on Software.
Biggest Intangible Asset ?
Brand Customers People Technology Processes Services Intellectual Property
INFORMATION BASE
Information is evolved by a Person or in a IT Systems:
Invest in People : Train, Promote & Retain them
Invest in Technology: In today’s business world information is Created, Transported and Stored in IT Hardware & Software. There is no other evolution of information. Hardware is purchased in a visible form factor. Software is not purchased always.
• Partial Compliance – Honest abuse• Misuse – Full Abuse
Types of Piracy
Full Misuse Maritime Piracy – Robbery – Somalia Music Piracy – Counterfeiting – Is this Theft? – it happens to S/w, it will happen on ebooks.
Honest Abuse of Software (Partial Compliance) Conscious or Unconscious Lack of Awareness
• License Misuse• End User Piracy• Internet Piracy• Hard Disk Loading
Honest Abuse: Conscious & Unconscious Do Nothing; Hope for best Node Locked; then Floating Licenses
S/w Adoption Rates Increased; Distributed Envir. Complex/Multiple Lic. Regimes
OEM bundle, Off the Shelf Trialware/Shareware/Freeware Limited Site/Unlimited Lic Open Source/Proprietary Concurrent Users/All Users VPA, PAS, SAAS adding new dimension
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Side effects of Honest Abuse
Vulnerable to Threats/Malware Compromised Performance Levels
Productivity Loss No Support or Upgrades
Final Advise..
Don’t make your software ASSET,
a LIABILITY that will cost you in long run.
Adopt SAM.
With SAM…
You know what you have
Buy only what you need
And use your assets effectively at every stage of their lifecycle.