Software SolutionsManaging your software estate and licensing risk

SCC helps you understand your software estate and licensing risk – achieving transparency, cost predictability and control. We enable you to pre-empt nasty surprises and save you money across all your business software assets.

A trusted partnerBy partnering with SCC, you can proactively manage the risk of non-compliancy, save money through effective use of licensing and encourage business growth through the correct utilisation of your existing estate.

We’re trusted to provide software and manage software licensing for leading businesses throughout Europe.

The challengeSoftware vendors including Microsoft, Adobe, SAP and Oracle have the right to audit a firm’s usage in order to calculate and invoice current and implied retrospective license shortfalls.

Many businesses have attempted to implement Software solutions, without success.

Only few have level of discovery technology and resource allocated to identifying software usage across the firm to reliably assess and confirm they are licensed sufficiently or optimally across their entire software estate.

This leaves you exposed to a material level of audit risk – often millions of pounds – and in turn places growing pressure on C-level execs to ensure their house is in order.

The key to successful solutions is good base data from a number of sources, combined with vendor intelligence and expertise.

EmpyreanEmpyrean, our Software Asset Management solution, is the process of identifying your software licensing position and matching it with what software assets you have, enabling you to optimise licences and reduce your spend.

Empyrean is more than just making sure you have sufficient licences to cover the software you own; it’s about managing

risk up front and reducing your capital expenditure on software.

Unlike a tool or a report, Empyrean is an all-encompassing offering designed to cover all vendors and flex to your individual software requirements.

Dealing with auditors and vendors can be confusing and time consuming. Using Empyrean, SCC takes over that responsibility, working with the necessary contacts on your behalf, controlling the flow of information to the vendor and negotiating around the resulting output.

Software LicensingLicensing can be complicated. Are you aware of every change in licensing regulation? If not, you could be at risk of incurring major costs and missing opportunity for growth.

Our Licensing service is focused on successfully managing, controlling and protecting your software licenses throughout the software lifecycle to avoid the costly consequences of incorrectly managed software.

SCC helps you take a proactive role in managing your software licenses by identifying the value in your existing software investment.

Our Software practices support businesses in planning for future technology investments and business change.

We partner with each of the leading vendors, guaranteeing you the best route to market and optimisation of your licensing estate, regardless of where your license resides (Office365, on-premises etc.).

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People do business. We make it work.

T: 0121 281 8618 E: online@scc.com W: www.scc.com

People do business. We make it work.

The Oracle Business UnitSCC’s dedicated Oracle Business Unit (BU) helps you reduce the cost of developing, integrating and managing converged infrastructure projects while boosting performance across the board.

The Oracle BU forms part of our strategy to strengthen our software business, as we evolve into the Europe’s principal IT services provider.

We recognise that the world of enterprise computing has moved forward, with a blend of cloud services and converged infrastructure now proving an attractive option for many organisations.

In response, we made a substantial early investment in a specialist team of pre-sales technical, virtual support, and sales staff with the required expertise to get the best out of the Oracle software and hardware environment.

SCC is among Oracle’s leading partners globally, and the catalyst for the dedicated Oracle BU was a hat trick of UK, European and World awards for excellence at the company’s annual awards scheme.

Our status as one of Oracle’s most accredited UK partners underlines the depth of our expertise. As ever, however, enterprise ICT is a business based not on prizes but on performance, and the creation of this new specialist practice will enable our customers to access a range of potential benefits.

SCC and MicrosoftSCC is one of Microsoft’s leading UK partners, and holds the following accreditations:

• Gold Devices and Deployment

• Gold Hosting

• Gold Volume Hosting

• Gold Software Asset Management

• Gold Data Centre

• Silver Midmarket Solution Provider

• Silver Messaging

• Silver Identity and Access

• Silver Collaboration and Content

• Silver Cloud Platform

Microsoft Product & Services Agreement – Microsoft has simplified how your organisation acquires and manages its Microsoft solutions with a single agreement for all your Online Services, software, and Microsoft Software Assurance purchases.

Microsoft Windows Server 2003 – Mainstream support for the Microsoft Windows Server 2003 operating system ended in July 2010 and extended support will end in July 2015. SCC offers its customers two complementary options: migrate or extend.