[Term of the Day]:SAM

Term of the Day

“Software Asset Management”

Definition — What is SAM?

SAM stands for Software Asset Management, in simple words it's a software needed for all business environments to simplify the complicated task of managing organization owned hardware and software. In general, the software managed by the organization are of different types like managed, shareware, freeware, and prohibited.

The key focus of SAM is optimizing licenses and lower risk of being audited by a software vendor. SAM tool is capable of scanning all assets of your organization along with the software installed. They can manage the history of all installed software, tracks license expiration dates, ensures license compliance by tracking over-licensed, under-licensed, and compliant software. A complete asset life cycle can be managed through SAM.