Software is a source of significant expense and even more significant exposure for the technology manager. Whether you are dealing with small-number high-cost installations, or enterprise-wide desktop applications, Fruition Partners can apply proven Software Lifecycle Management techniques to your environment, reducing cost and risk.

Complex vendor licensing agreements and underpowered tracking processes can result in an unmanaged and uncertain environment. Gaps between what is purchased, what is installed, and what is actively used expose your organization to unnecessary costs, audit
liability, and support challenges.

Software Lifecycle Management is a series of tools and processes designed to reduce purchase costs, streamline the distribution process, and improve user support. Our methodology evolves your current processes, culture, and infrastructure to work efficiently together throughout the entire software lifecycle.

Stages of Software Lifecycle Management Maturity

1. Unrestricted purchases and installations
2. Installation by approval only
3. Centralized purchasing and distribution
4. Catalog of software owned, installed, used
5. Optimized purchases to usage
6. Total Software Lifecycle Managemen

Benefits by Lifecycle Stage

Purchasing

• Lower purchasing costs by centralizing vendor negotiations
• Consolidate purchasing functions to specialized individuals
• Standardize and track all contracts
• Maintain inventory of all purchases

Deployment

• Increase speed of software deployment
• Prevent unauthorized installations
• Inventory of internal and external application data
• Standardize installation and removal of software
• Centralize software distributions

Support

• Reduce variables of support
• Reduce users per software title
• Eliminate audit liability
• Increase uptime by preventing software conflicts

For more information about the Service Management Roadmap, please contact us.