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and vendors evaluation, contracts negotiation, budget planning, hardware
compliance analysis, software life cycle planning, and so on. However, one of the
most important steps of this Business process is software monitoring. This is the
only way to exactly know what software is installed within an enterprise and,
more importantly, which software and how many pieces of it is used within the IT
infrastructure. Sometimes, enterprises buy Corporate licenses even though
licenses are procured for some specific Divisions and won’t be used by the rest
of the enterprise. Many organizations are overbuying licenses so as to not
expose the enterprise to the risk of non-compliance usage of software ...