Dealing with a software vendor audit can be time consuming, stressful, and costly exercise. Preparation is key, as is having formal software audit practices and underlying  IT asset management (ITAM) and software asset management (SAM) processes in place. This blog offers some practical guidelines on how to manage a software audit situation without panicking, hiding under your desk, or running screaming from the building. 

Software can be a big expense for organizations and thus its effective management can make a big difference to what gets spent on it each and every year. But software license management isn’t just about saving money, it's also about compliance - having the ability to ensure that the software used within your organization is both licensed and used in an optimized way. To that end, an ITAM tool can be an ally.