Software licensing is complex and varies from vendor to vendor. Not only is there a need to comprehend how each product is licensed, but also a thorough understanding of the licensing schemes available. It is therefore easy to over spend on software licence purchases, and only through good advice and process can significant savings be made, firstly by understanding the total requirement and then applying the most cost effective licence strategy.
In my experience Software Asset Management is often just a posh name for licence management – but it should be a lot more than that…
What I like about the Trustmarque approach is that although it has been firmly based on licence management, TESG is expanding its scope to cover more of the managed service delivery space; and talks about ‘value delivered’ as well as cost savings.David Norfolk, Practice Leader Development and Governance, Bloor Research
Trustmarque can help you make the best choice for your organisation, big or small. With more than 20 years software and software licensing expertise, we understand the business and IT challenges that organisations in the public sector and corporate markets face. We have tailored our value added services to offer the following benefits for customers:
- Cost reductions based on best of breed advice from an account manager who understands software licensing and your business, with access to vendor licensing experts for complex requirements
- Significant costs savings through benchmarking current and future software contracts
- An experienced trusted advisor to manage the smooth transition process of large scale and complex software licence contract implementations
- Best Practice
- Software Control & Asset management to assist with compliancy and industry regulations
Trustmarque Solutions not only make software licensing simple, but also are focused on reducing costs for our clients, building long term relationships and trust through outstanding customer service. By offering excellent advice and guidance around all aspects of software purchasing, management and implementation, our customers can show tangible savings and value from a company that really makes its mark in the industry.
Partner relationships
We’ve also developed excellent vendor relationships, attaining the highest accreditation levels with our partners. These strong relationships mean that we are always up to date with the very latest product information, news and schemes available. We’ve done this so we can be certain that when we recommend a particular solution, it’s the best solution on the market at the time based on your requirements.
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Microsoft expertise
We are a Microsoft Large Account Reseller (LAR) with competencies in Microsoft Licensing, Software Asset Management, Infrastructure Optimisation and Security to offer expert advice and trusted licensing solutions to our customers. We are now established as the UK’s number one provider to the Public Sector and can confidently advise you on achieving your aspirations and goals with Microsoft products and services.
Trustmarque welcome the introduction of Microsoft Competencies as a way of ensuring appropriate skill-sets and best of breed approach to Microsoft solutions is applied. Importantly, this is through Microsoft’s formal process of ranking and accreditation.
These Silver or Gold Competencies ensure that the best experts and accredited personnel are available to support the architecture, configuration and deployment of your Microsoft technology. Trustmarque pride ourselves on being pretty unique in the UK Market, in that we seek to secure over 15 of these Competencies, enabling us to advise and support with our own in-house solutions experts, thus helping reduce your costs of delivering the solution across the Microsoft “Stack”.
Buying software online
Our fully interactive customer portal has been designed to save time for buyers and managers, providing the ability to obtain management information as well as capability to search your own bespoke catalogue with the option to purchase online. You will have immediate, secure access to a host of added value software services specific to your company. It is simple, hassle-free and will save time and money.