Software Asset Management Strategies Europe 2012

Within the Software Asset Management Strategies Europe 2012 (SAM Strategies Europe) a number of representatives from considerable companies from different industrial sectors will present their strategies, processes and systems solution and will talk about specific projects in the field of transparent and efficient Software Asset Management in different case studies. Attendees will discuss about individual solutions and practical approaches. Defining fundamental roles, functions and processes in a company, up to determining tools for software metering and even large-scale projects as concerted establishment of software asset management in companies will be debated.

Keynote Speakers
Jim Heaton,Toni Velamazán,Nabil Batlouni,Prentice Dees,Daniel Lebeau,Dieter T. Beckers,Diane Tea,Lene Bader,Raphael Viard,Estella Huang and many more.

Highlights are keynote sessions from following industry leaders:
• Daniel Lebeau, CIO, GlaxoSmithKline Biologicals / Belgium
• Jim Heaton, Senior Director IOS, Chief Architect, and CTO of IT, Baker Hughes / USA
• Nicola Aliperti, Global IT Project Manager Marketing Europe, The Coca-Cola Company / Italy

Agenda
• Structuring license agreements and company-wide coordination of software procurement processes to meet specific requirements
• Efficient management and reporting of software licenses
• Legal background, recent court decisions, national and international trends and tendencies
• IT-based enterprise SLM: From theory to working practice
• Tools, reporting solutions and licensing models under scrutiny
• Benefits and risks of using open source and used software
• Balancing over and under licensing
• Management of server licenses ‒ Challenges and solutions
• Virtualization and software as a service ‒ simplification or even more complexity?
• Impact of cloud computing i