How does the acquisition of Isogon link to IBMs on demand strategy?
Isogon is a solution that helps companies move further toward becoming on demand businesses. Part of IBM’s on demand strategy is designed to help companies react faster to changes in their business environment as well as improve the alignment of IT investment with business priorities. Software asset management helps accomplish both of these. First, it enables customers to respond quickly to new business demands by clearly revealing actual software usage trends across the enterprise and determining who or what is using this software, thereby providing insight into the changing business consumption of IT software resources. Second, it also helps customers adjust software investment to align with business demands by linking actual software usage information to corresponding vendor contracts, enabling customers to compare software economics with business priorities. Finally this also assists the customer manage license and regulatory compliance.
