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BDNA Reveals IT Asset Management Approaches for Avoiding Vendor AuditsBDNA®, the leader in creating the most authoritative enterprise technology data, today released a new report on the complexities of vendor license audits, including steps on how to avoid audits altogether. The report, Breaking Away from the Vicious Vendor Audit Cycle, is the latest installment of BDNA's quarterly State of the Enterprise reports that examine trending issues and priorities in enterprise IT management. According to the report, the multibillion-dollar software and hardware audit industry has become increasingly aggressive in recent years, and most enterprises are stuck taking a reactionary approach to audit notices. By failing to proactively protect themselves with thorough IT Asset Management (ITAM) practices, organizations ultimately spend inordinate amounts of money and manpowe responding to audit notices, paying significant fines when caught out of compliance. Highlights of the report include:
"As the complexity of the enterprise IT environment increases, the stakes in relation to the cost and impact of a vendor audit have never been higher," said Walker White, president of BDNA. "In this report, the BDNA team has highlighted some of the most common pain points, as well as the more effective, proactive approaches to managing vendor licenses that can help enterprises avoid a burdensome audit. Deflecting on-site vendor audits has to be a deliberate undertaking, but it is one that is within every organization's reach." BDNA's full report on avoiding vendor license audits can be downloaded here. About BDNA BDNA Corporation creates the most authoritative enterprise technology data. Armed with this invaluable information, enterprises will make the best decisions possible, lower costs and risks as well as accelerate the pace of their business. To produce the most relevant results, BDNA maintains Technopedia®, the most complete, current and reliable content repository about hardware and software. This catalog is the foundation from which BDNA creates the highest quality enterprise technology data in the industry, which in turn results in visibility, insight and information enterprises can trust. Venture-backed and based in Mountain View, Calif., BDNA operates globally with customers across all segments and vertical markets. For more information, please visit www.bdna.com.
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