Snow Spend Optimizer on Snow Atlas

Automate SAM to accelerate software savings

Snow Spend Optimizer delivers the fastest way to identify waste and risk in your software portfolio. Even small teams can automate SAM best practices quickly without lengthy implementation projects. Get armed with usage data for over 700,000 apps to ace renewal negotiations, effectively defend against audits, cut spend on unused and underused licenses and rationalize redundant or unsupported applications. Jumpstart your SAM practice with Snow Spend Optimizer and realize savings in as little as 30 days.

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Avoid software costs and risk

Audit defense

Be audit-ready to avoid unexpected costs

Software vendor audits can drag down your team with time-consuming requests and result in unexpected true-up costs. Snow Spend Optimizer keeps you audit-ready all the time. Get real-time visibility into your compliance position to know when you have over-assigned licenses. Leverage usage data to continually recapture underused licenses and stay in compliance. In case of an audit, quickly access reports to confidently communicate your effective license position (ELP).

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Cost containment

Contain spiraling software costs

Stop paying for more than you need with usage insights that compare licenses paid for against actual usage. Get the data you need to eliminate unused software, downgrade premium tiers, reallocate licenses and get the best renewal deal. Snow Spend Optimizer lets you avoid overbuying and gets your software spend under control.

CONTROL CLOUD LICENSES

Get visibility into cloud licenses running in Microsoft Azure

Want to identify savings opportunities for leveraging Azure Hybrid Use Benefits (AHUB)—and help your organization stay compliant? With Snow Spend Optimizer, you can achieve that level of cloud license control by understanding how BYOL is applied for Windows Server and SQL Server instances on Azure.  

Application rationalization

Reduce software sprawl

With automatic normalization, categorization, and enrichment of more than 700,000 applications, Snow Spend Optimizer provides a complete picture of your software portfolio. Quickly identify overlapping technologies used across your organization, access usage data to determine which redundant applications to eliminate and identify which applications are your enterprise standards for better negotiating leverage.

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Time to value with Snow Spend Optimizer

FAST TIME-TO-VALUE WITH SNOW ATLAS

Get a handle on SAM in 30 days

Your organization can't afford to wait for results. Even small teams can find savings quickly with Snow Atlas. Uncover opportunities to optimize usage and go into your next renewal prepared to get the best deal. Share insights with stakeholders across your organization so the entire enterprise can drive positive outcomes—everything from identifying cost savings to risk reduction.

How it Works

Get fast results with a guided implementation experience

  • Obtain an inventory of IT assets by integrating with existing IT tools. Then fill in the gaps with additional inventory methods and meter software usage.
  • Import contract and entitlement data into your single source of truth.
  • View out-of-the-box optimization insights and reports to quickly detect software savings, determine your effective license position and identify technology risk.
  • Our team of value realization experts helps you make progress on your goals throughout your relationship with us.

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The fees resulting from the software audit were a wake-up call across businesses of Panasonic in Europe. Over time, we had collected a sprawling mix of server, client, on-premises and cloud subscription software, running on thousands of systems, and our rather manual software asset management processes were not keeping pace.

ULF KUETEMEYER, SENIOR MANAGER OF CONTRACTING & PROCUREMENT PANASONIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS COMPANY EUROPE

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Frequently asked questions

Yes. Spend Optimizer is available on our SaaS platform,Snow Atlas. You can also purchase Spend Optimizer to be installed on-premises and it is also sold as a managed service from one of our global partners. There are features available in Spend Optimizer on Snow Atlas (container visibility, cloud license management, etc.) that are not available on-premises.

Connect with our team to discuss which deployment option is right for you.

One reason why customers choose Snow is our quick time to value. With our SaaS platform, our 25+ years of experience helping customers mature along their ITAM journey, and our Value Realization services, we are able to help customers get to their first outcome in 30 days.

Spend Optimizer supports end user devices on most operating systems, mobile devices, servers, Kubernetes containers and over 700,000 applications, including Oracle Java. To get visibility to SaaS applications, customers use Snow SaaS Management, also on the Snow Atlas Platform.

Return on investment is greatest for organizations that use Snow for multiple use cases (audit defense, renewal negotiations, application rationalization, etc.). A study by Forrester found ROI of >400%. With usage metering insights, Snow is able to help organizations find more savings than other solutions.

View our case studies to learn about additional business benefits. 

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