Maintaining a competitive business means keeping up with current technology. However, managing your software investments can be costly, and the best solutions for managing them are not always readily obtainable–or easily understood. This is where Insight comes in. We can help guide you through the necessary steps to trim per-unit prices, standardise software products, and take advantage of volume license and maintenance (VLM) agreements. The result is a more simplified software management process.

As the largest provider of PC software to organisations worldwide, Insight is the premier volume licensing expert. Our account executives help you conquer the complexities of volume licensing by guiding you through each step of the software lifecycle, enabling you to develop a software management strategy that keeps you legally compliant and boosts your return on investment.

Over 28 years experience with software licensing make it possible for us to provide up-to-date access to industry solutions and information, as well as timely delivery. Publishers around the world have seen the value of partnering with a software provider that excels at supporting their programs. The benefit to you is that you will access software and licensing program solutions from over 6,000 software vendors, leveraging longstanding relationships to negotiate the best deals possible for you. We can manage and track nonstandard software license agreements, reducing the risk, overhead, and delay associated with acquiring and maintaining software from emerging providers.

Get strategic support for your software license management from Insight´s account team, certified professionals on all major publishers´ licensing programs. We help you understand where local enrollments will save you money and where you can achieve greater discounts by purchasing centrally. We guide you through each step of the software lifecycle–option analysis, contract interpretation, license deployment, and comprehensive reporting, to help you develop a software management strategy that boosts your return on investment. You can be confident that when you call your Insight account team, you will be answered by a well-trained, competent staff member.

With Online Order Management, we provide you with a dedicated, customisable shop.insight software web portal that contains a custom software catalogue and ordering system.

• Contract Management: Information about all your volume license agreements, as well as the programs that pertain to them, is always available. You can easily browse the products available under each license agreement.
• Customised Tracking: Our SmartTracker feature lets you customise your data to allocate purchases to specific cost centres, billing codes, business units, departments, or projects.
• Reporting: Our real-time reporting capabilities are unsurpassed, offering accurate, clearly formatted reports when you need them.
• Workflow Manager: Workflow Manager supports the approval of requisitions and purchases based upon several variables such as value, department, or user role. It allows the ability to establish workflow approval rules that match your internal processes and ultimately facilitate the management and purchase of products and services through your insight.com software web portal.

With Contract Management, Insight monitors your volume purchasing contracts with major publishers and, on a quarterly basis, notifies you of any approaching expiration dates. Your account team ensures that you have time to prepare for renewals and new agreements. In addition, we use our global contract management database to track your milestones, or current standings in relation to your commitments, and will advise you on your options for staying compliant with your forecasts.