Snow Software, the global leader in Software Asset Management (SAM)
and Cloud Spend Management solutions, today announced the launch of Snow
for Cloud and enhancements in Snow's Oracle Management Option and Snow
for ITSM.
Snow for Cloud
Snow for Cloud
provides IT leaders with the next evolution of transparent, actionable
views of their Software as a Service (SaaS) environment so they can
easily assess and manage cloud usage and spend. It provides them insight
to discover, make an inventory of and track consumption of more than
1,000 SaaS applications.
This deep analytical insight enables IT
leaders to quickly and accurately identify overspend from duplicate,
unused or underutilized SaaS subscriptions. Snow for Cloud also
automates manual access requests and provisioning processes that are
often costly and inefficient.
"Many organizations have gone
beyond cloud-first and are now cloud only. Cloud computing has become
the new normal." said Peter Björkman, CTO at Snow Software. "Business
units can now deploy SaaS solutions without the involvement of IT. This
leaves IT without visibility or control of their SaaS environment and
uncertainty as to what is being used, where and by whom. This is
creating a Disruption Gap, a gulf between what IT understands about
technology usage and what is actually occurring."
Björkman adds,
"Snow empowers IT leaders to identify wasted cloud spend, optimize SaaS
applications and accurately manage cloud costs. This insight enables
them to become enablers of business goals and the go-to for digital
transformation initiatives, essential if they are to succeed in the
digital era."
Snow Oracle Management Option and Snow for IT Service Management (ITSM)
Snow
also announces enhancements to Snow's Oracle Management Option and Snow
for ITSM. Oracle Management Option provides CIOs and IT leaders with a
complete overview of Oracle databases deployed in their environments.
With visibility into data risk, IT leaders have a greater understanding
of what platform Oracle is deployed into, whether physical or
virtualized, or in a SaaS or IaaS environment.
Snow for ITSM
supports a number of ITSM platforms with up-to-date asset information,
software and users, improving CMDB data accuracy. Snow's automatic
identification and normalization of software and consolidation from
multiple data sources will improve the efficiency of Help Desk
operations.
Peter Björkman concluded, "The Software Asset
Management market is evolving, which we feel is indicated by Gartner's
inaugural 2018Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management Tools1where
Snow Software was positioned in the leaders quadrant. From our
perspective, by addressing the complexities of cloud asset management,
with support across more applications than anyone else, Snow Software
continues to demonstrate why it is leading the SAM industry today."
For more information on Snow for Cloud, visit: https://www.snowsoftware.com/int/products/snow-cloud-discovery