GeminiSix is a SAM competency center focused on helping businesses correctly manage their Software Assets and Licenses throughout their entire life cycle. With our SAM services we will ensure the lifecycle and management of your entire software estate is managed and controlled. Our primary goal is to maintain compliance and reduce cost for your organisation and to ensure that all users are using software within their product use rights. Our services aim to provide management and optimization of software fixed assets and license management incorporating a set of proven processes and procedures for managing and optimizing IT assets for our clients.

Our services help to protect our client’s software investments and help them recognize what they have, where it’s running, and if their assets are used efficiently. Our goal is to reduce information technology costs and limit business and legal risk related to the ownership and use of software, while maximizing IT responsiveness and end-user productivity. With our SAM services we will ensure the lifecycle and management of your entire software estate is managed and controlled. Our services include:

MANAGED SAM SERVICE
Our SAM managed service we will ensure the lifecycle and management of your software from the minute it is requested, through procurement, deployment, recycling and finally retirement. Managing your software estate, tools and processes requires constant attention and the availability of highly skilled and experienced staff. GeminiSix can offer you end-to-end software asset management no matter where they are: on-premise, in the cloud or in a hybrid environment.

1.
PLAN & DESIGN

Define roles, requirements and processes

2.
IMPLEMENTATION

Install, configure and setup required interfaces

3.
ONBOARDING

Understand Vendor requirements, initial compliance

4.
OPERATIONS

Administrate, monitor int. and data quality, compliance reports

5.
OPTIMIZATION

Manage your costs, optimize licenses, demand planning and reclaim assets

6.
DELIVERABLES

Review sessions and delivery of reports

BASELINE SERVICE
Our License Baseline Services service is a one-time assessment that will help our clients fully understand their current compliance position and identify optimization opportunities. Our team will analyze your software and license estate, identify your current software deployment and usage, and then compare that to your contract entitlement and licensing use rights.

1. PLAN &
DESIGN

- Project planning
- Deliverables & Acceptance

2. TOOL
DEPLOYMENT

- Tool consideration - Deployment planning

3. DATA
COLLECTION

- License collection
- Inventory collection

4. ASSESSMENT
& ANALYSIS

- Effective license position (ELP)
- Optimization & Deliverables

5. REPORTING

- Data processing
- Effective license position

WHY SAM?

RISK REDUCTION

Financial, legal and reputation liabilities. Optimize license usage.

ENHANCED CONTROL

Precise accounting for existing assets, services, and cost Limit license misuse and rogue purchases.

OPTIMIZED IT

Virtualization & Server consolidation Standardization of configuration & change management.

INFORMATION SECURITY

Identify unpatched / unsupported software. Malicious code / information leakage.

COST OPTIMIZATION

Knowledgeable vendor negotiations Software re-use & limit IT support costs.

Our Cloud Financial management services will help you understand your needs, optimize your costs, and provide continues operational support to help optimize your costs while allowing your business to thrive.
1. ASSESS
  • Identification– Identify actual usage, needs and analyze current invoicing
  • Mapping – Map costs to workloads and organizational structures
  • Accountability–Cost awareness & accountability

The first step is to gain continues visibility into your cloud environment based on individual, team, division or organizational usage. The objective is to allow visibility into current spend and allocation by providing stakeholders real-time or on-demand information providing them with team accountability and accurate costs allowing them to make agile and intelligent decisions concerning their actual needs as well as budgeting and forecasting.
2. OPTIMIZE
  • Over usage – Eliminate overprovisioning
  • Awareness – Create a culture of cost awareness & optimal resource provisioning
  • Balance – Balance fluctuating computing resource demands and costs

The beginning of optimization comes with using resources optimally. Once you are actively monitoring your cloud infrastructure identifying unused infrastructure or resources becomes apparent. Eliminate an oversized infrastructure with unused resources. Optimizing spend is important but needs to be balanced with actual service loads and possible resource intensive peaks throughout the year.
3. MANAGE
  • Forecasting – Efficient cost predictability and spend prioritization
  • Governance – Improve cloud efficiency through process implementation
  • Strategy – Establish long term cloud strategy based on actual data and business needs

Effectively managing your cloud infrastructure is a combination of people, processes and technology. Organizations need to set governance in place to allow business needs and IT infrastructure to function at the expected rate and allow business owners to plan, budget and monitor their spend and ROI but also allow to efficiently procure new systems when needed.


WHY FINOPS?

Enable data driven budgeting & forecasting

Understand cloud pricing

Identify cost optimization opportunities

Accelerate access to services

Cloud visibility & transparency

Enable continuous governance & automated tasks

Create cost awareness

As the number of SaaS applications grows subscription costs rise and managing your spend management has become an important topic for companies of all sizes. Common questions that need to be addressed are:

Get control over SaaS throughout your entire software estate:

1. DISCOVER
  • SaaS can be widespread and independent throughout your organization. The first step is to discover and inventory all SaaS Services in use.
2. OPTIMIZE
  • Report on active, inactive and costs per user. Optimization through inactive or seldom active users and evaluation of needed user type i.e. advanced user vs standard user.
3. MANAGE
  • Ensure SaaS accounts are managed providing better security and optimized spend for employees that might not be with the company anymore.
  • Track renewal dates and make informed decisions.
  • Help business owners maximize their technology investments.


WHY SaaS?

Know how much you spend

Identify optimization potential

Establish governance

Automate activities

Continues control

Open-Source Software (OSS) components are extensively used in today’s application development. Globar market research estimates that more than 95% of all mission critical applications contain some OSS components. Whether it’s to reduce development time or associated costs, using OSS components can have consequences that might not be visible upfront. With the correct insight into your OSS component usage the following risks can be avoided:

Software Composition Analysis can help organizations build an inventory of OSS components, libraries, and frameworks. We will audit each codebase for Licensing, Copyright, Security and Code Management issues. We use multiple tools to develop a rounded view and cover dependencies to multiple levels.

1. UPLOAD

  • Source code upload or sync with repository
  • 2. SCAN

  • Identify copyright, security, licensing & coding issues
  • 3. ANALYSIS &
    RECOMMENDATIONS

  • Review all & analysis, audit report preparation
  • 4. PRESENTATION
    OF RESULTS

  • Review session & final report delivery
  • 5. MANAGED
    SERVICE

  • Integration into devops process & continues code monitoring

  • WHY SOFTWARE COMPOSITION ANALYSIS?

    Manage licencing risks

    Automate open-source component tracking

    Continues detection and monitoring of security vulnerabilities

    Manage & improve development processes

    Application packaging involves the preparation of structured and customized software installations targeted for automated deployment. The packages can be prepared for both commercial or in-house application usage. Application Packaging can help organizations manage growing needs for efficient and customized software deployment for Desktop and Servers. By streamlining application configuration and deployment, application packaging organizations can help reduce software management costs while increasing efficiency and reducing security risks.

    Our services include:


    WHY APPLICATION PACKAGING?

    Customization

    Application standardization

    Reduce security risk

    Reduce support costs

    Reduce business disruptions

    Ensure software management

    Contolled software installation