INFORMATION ASSET MANAGEMENT
56 activities . Software revenues have taken a hit , and vendors will look to recover these losses by activating the audit clause and attempting to reshape their commercial agreements .
There is also often then a disconnect between procurement and software asset management . The former is unsure what data they need and how to use it , and the latter sits on a hoard of data that no one is using . This data is then only drawn out during a vendor audit in which vendors overlay it with their own interpretation . This provides significant advantage to the vendor and will be used to land companies with massive retrospective bills for software usage they were unaware of .”
DECEMBER 2020