What we deliver
A production SAM Pro deployment covering your top 10 to 15 publishers by spend: entitlement import, discovery-based reconciliation, reclamation workflows, and an executive license position dashboard.
Why Semaphore
We implement SAM Pro on top of our Hardware Asset Management Validated Practice, so the discovery and reconciliation layer it depends on is one we’re validated in. We’ve run SAM for organizations with hundreds of publishers and software portfolios in the millions, and we know the licensing models that trip people up: Microsoft Enterprise Agreement, Oracle Processor metric, IBM sub-capacity.
Typical engagement
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Weeks 1-3
Publisher inventory, entitlement data collection, discovery scope
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Weeks 4-8
SAM Pro configuration, publisher normalization, entitlement import
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Weeks 9-12
Consumption reconciliation, gap analysis, reclamation workflows
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Weeks 13-16
Reporting dashboards, administrator training
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Weeks 17-18
Handoff and hypercare