Software vendor audits on the increase!?

(imported topic written by SystemAdmin)

Hi Everyone,

I noticed that Gartner Group analysts report that whenever there is an economic downturn, vendors tend not to sell many new licenses, so they attempt to make up the lost revenue by auditing their customers.

Is anyone out there experiencing this effect and/or are you tuning your IT asset management program in anticipation of an audit? Is your BigFix deployment helping you respond to the audits quickly, efficiently, with a high degree of accuracy? I’d be interested in hearing some good anecdotes…post them here or drop me an email.

Thanks!

– Jeff