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Aspera customers honored again for outstanding implementation of
software license management
03.03.2015 / 10:00
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BWI, TUI & Commerzbank win SAMS Award 2015
Aachen, Germany: 3rd March 2015.
Aspera congratulates this year's winners of the 2015 SAMS Award
competition, all of whom use Aspera technology and expertise for their
software license management. BWI Informationstechnik GmbH, the IT service
provider of the German Armed Forces, was honored with first place for
exemplary implementation of enterprise-wide software asset and license
management strategies. Also receiving awards were TUI InfoTec GmbH and
Commerzbank AG. The highlight of this year's International Conference for
Software Asset Management Strategies (SAMS) was the first prize being
awarded to an Aspera customer for the third time, joining a long line-up of
winning Aspera customers behind Deutsche Post DHL, Voith and Evonik
Industries.
The following criteria were used by a panel of experts to evaluate the
nominated companies' performances:
- significant reduction of software costs
- implementation of and compliance with security policies
- prevention of over- and under-licensing
- reduction of overall expenses
- successful implementation of reporting solutions
- enterprise-wide coordination of software acquisition processes
- management of server licenses
BWI Informationstechnik GmbH took first prize at the SAMS Awards for its
"ELIMA" project. A particular challenge of this project was to compile the
complete inventory of client and server software under the highest security
regulations. The success of the project is therefore noteworthy for the
high inventory level (98%) for servers while meeting the requirements of
Standard 19770-1. The optimization of the licensing demand ultimately
resulted in significant financial savings. Claudia Frank from the license
management group at BWI explained: "through the licensing optimization of
the operating environment, costs have been reduced by a factor of four."
The second place prize went to TUI InfoTec and their project "LiMa". Within
14 months TUI used SmartTrack by Aspera to successfully build a tool-based
license management system, and subsequently has achieved a coverage of
licenses equivalent to 90% of the enterprise-wide deployed software's
value. Thus, within a short time frame, a reliable and transparent
information basis has been created for key software vendors such as Oracle,
Microsoft, IBM and Adobe for TUI's approximately 3,500 physical and virtual
servers and 600 clients.
Commerzbank AG took third place with their project "Colima / SAM
Microsoft". The company's SAM cycle was defined in terms of processes and
organizational structures, and has already been operatively established for
the software manufacturer Microsoft. As a central license management tool,
SmartTrack by Aspera was implemented and successfully connected to the
company's existing asset management systems.
Olaf Diehl, Managing Director of Aspera GmbH, congratulates the winners on
their well-deserved awards: "BWI, TUI and Commerzbank have demonstrated
Best in Class license management. We are pleased that our customers have
received this recognition for their excellent work, and that we were
allowed to support them even with difficult requirements in terms of
complexity and security."
Aspera is thankful for their customers' continued confidence and
cooperation in successful software license management.
This press release is available at http://www.aspera.com as well as at
http://www.usu.de.
About Aspera
Aspera is a highly specialized provider of software asset management
solutions.
Hundreds of enterprises worldwide rely on Aspera, including more than 35
Fortune Global 500 companies. Since 2000, our award-winning software and
services--including the SmartTrack license management technology--have been
successfully implemented in international projects, representing diverse
industries such as banking and finance, automotive, telecommunications, and
pharmaceuticals.
Mission
Our mission is to deliver Strategic License Management--the full spectrum
of Software License Management--to our customers from one source, and
provide unbeatably innovative, scalable and easy to handle technology to
large organizations as well as expert services that always have the
customers' needs in view. Aspera was founded in 2000 in Aachen, Germany and
its sister company in the USA, Aspera Technologies Inc., was established in
2012. Together the companies currently employ 102 professionals. Aspera
GmbH and Aspera Technologies Inc. are wholly owned subsidiaries of the USU
Group. More information is available at www.aspera.com.
Aspera, SmartTrack, ICM, CMM, DMM, FlowControl, FM, OSM, and the license
management logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Aspera
Technologies Inc. in the US and other countries. All other trademarks
contained herein are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
Aspera Technologies Inc.
Marketing
Kacey Ende
Tel.: + 1 617-307-7733
Email: kacey.ende@aspera.com
USU Software AG
Corporate Communications
Dr. Thomas Gerick
Tel.: +49 (0) 71 41 - 48 67 440
Fax: +49 (0) 71 41 - 48 67 909
E-Mail: t.gerick@usu-software.de
USU Software AG
Investor Relations
Falk Sorge
Spitalhof
D-71696 Möglingen
Tel.: +49 (0) 71 41 - 48 67 351
Fax: +49 (0) 71 41 - 48 67 108
E-Mail: f.sorge@usu-software.de
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Company: USU Software AG
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