G4S Select Certero leading SAM solution

19 July 2011

G4S is the UK and Ireland’s largest security solutions group with a turnover of more than £1 billion and 40,000 employees. More than 6,000 customers and the majority of UK Government departments, depend on G4S to provide them with a safe and secure way to deliver their services.

In the UK and Ireland there are two divisions: G4S secure solutions and G4S Cash Solutions covering sectors including Financial institutions, Leisure and Tourism, Transport and Logistics, Retail as well as event Security Services, Investigative Services Cash Management solutions.

With a large IT estate covering the UK and Ireland, the organisation needed to ensure effective management of their software assets to identify unused software and avoid wasted spend.

Certero Software Asset Management solution is developed with today’s technology to address today’s challenges; AssetStudio® addresses the complexities of Licence Management and compliance, using unique automation to enable a real-time Effective Licence Position (ELP), also enabling the comprehensive management of Virtualised environments. Certero SoftwareMetering For Decision Makers® allows organisations to enforce device based licensing in a Thin Client environment as well as applying software policies that prevent unauthorised software from being used.

John Lunt Certero Managing Director comments “The selection of Certero’s leading Software Asset Management Solution by an organisation in such wide operation as G4S is testament to the solutions strengths in controlling licence management and providing evidence to demonstrate compliance. Good SAM practice allows companies to avoid financial penalties if their software is unmanaged, reduces the support costs for out of date or incompatible software and improves competitive advantage by exploiting the business benefits that up to date software enables.” He adds “G4S now have the added benefit of identifying used and unused software organisations to remove waste and progress to an Optimised Licence Position (OLP).”