GSE UK Conference 2007

"Virtually Yourz"

Abstract:

How good is "Best in Class" and how do companies get there? While the average data center is spending substantially more today than 10 years ago for software, unit costs have fallen in half. The surge in new products during the 1990s and licensing across entire data centers created escalating software budgets that forced data centers to make drastic changes in the post-Y2K era. Customer requirements of the 1990s are no longer driving software licensing. While an average data center has reduced their software unit costs by half, "Best in Class" data centers have amazingly done the same and continue to spend less than half of the "average" data center in software costs! The nimble, mid-sized data center is no longer able to outperform the large data center and while USD $2,500 per MIP for total software costs was unimaginable in the 1990s, "Best in Class" data centers are approaching $1,000 per mip in software costs. How did they get there?

Michael Swanson has 24 years of experience in business management within the travel, hi-tech, financial services, health care, insurance, retail, and food industries. Mr. Swanson built ISAM (Information Systems Asset Management) in 1996 to help data centers manage their software assets, optimize software usage and reduce software expense by utilizing ISAM's proprietary software intelligence database. As President and CEO, Mr. Swanson and his team offer expertise in software asset management for both mainframe and distributed software, software audits, software benchmarking, data center optimization services and vendor negotiation services. ISAM, under the guidance of Mr. Swanson, has worked with clients globally across all industries to help them save millions of dollars in software expenses.

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