Where are you on the path to software compliance and asset management maturity? Are you working toward the highest level of compliance and maturity as possible or ignoring the issue in hopes an audit request never arrives? Opening yourself up for potential audits can cost you a significant amount of money and can damage your company's reputation.The good news is risk can be mitigated and millions of dollars and a good reputation can be saved by having full visibility into all of the IT property owned by your company so executives and other influencers can make informed decisions regarding asset acquisition, use, reuse/repurposing, retirement, and disposal. Throughout my 10+ years in software compliance and IT Asset Management, I have delivered the highest levels of compliance possible.As a respected Manager for Procurement Compliance / Software Asset Management, I’ve defined the strategies needed to protect companies from potential substantial financial penalties and damage to reputation and have educated end-users about software licensing and the importance of compliance.I’ve driven tangible cost savings and compliance through …• Using Snow Software, Microsoft SCCM and other asset tracking systems to introduce centralized hardware and software license tracking and reporting to advance license optimization.• Using Black Duck software to help create a system to facilitate open source software compliance and governance.• Bolstering licensing and compliance awareness through education.• Introducing a unified reporting system leading to improved software license planning and budgeting along with integrating software agreements for various manufacturers like Microsoft, Adobe and Oracle.If you are struggling with licensing and compliance issues, IT inventory tracking or policy creation and administration, let’s talk.