"Standards-Based Measurement of Software Deployment and Usage" will help:

Executives and managers seeking an overview of the new Software ID Tagging Standards and the opportunities they create

Product management organizations pursuing methods to cut losses from underreported product use while reducing the overhead of license management

Product support organizations desiring better information about the products installed at customer sites

Development organizations looking to understand how tagging will impact new and existing product development schedules

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"Standards-Based Measurement of Software Deployment and Usage"

is a free, 3 page white paper that provides an overview of the new software tagging standards and how they will affect the way you build, deploy and track your software products.

Tracking and managing deployed software products is a headache for both software buyers and providers. Despite costly investments in license management, auditing and compliance programmers, studies estimate that software providers still lose as much as 35% of their potential revenue to underreported usage.

The newly approved ISO/IEC 19770-2 standard for Software Id Tagging addresses this challenge by providing a common foundation for finding, identifying and tracking software use. Adopting this standard:
  • Reduces the cost of managing licensed software for buyers and providers
  • Gains revenue by accurately "trueing up" license fees to actual use
  • Protects business by meeting upcoming GSA requirements for selling software to the US government

"Standards-Based Measurement of Software Deployment and Usage" covers:

  • The need for better software tracking - discusses the limitations of current software tracking methods and why inaccuracies in understanding software usage are costly to both software providers and buyers
  • What is Software ID Tagging and how it can help - dexplains the newly adopted ISO / IEC 19770-2 standard and its components, describes the information that Software ID Tags capture and illustrates how that information is deployed and used across the soft product lifecycle.
  • Four steps towards a truly accurate understanding of software usage - describes the process for deploying standardized Software ID Tags to support improved software management and lay the foundation for utility computing .