Take Control of Software Spend with Software Asset Management
A SAM Service That Adapts to Your Priorities
The service begins with a complimentary discovery consultation and personalised roadmap across your software and cloud estate. We use inventory, contract, usage and business data to identify the greatest savings and risk-reduction opportunities.
Rather than providing static reports, we interpret the data, recommend what to do next and help ensure changes are made. As priorities evolve, our hyperflexible Software Asset Management service shifts focus to the areas that will deliver the most value.
Optional specialist support includes:
- SAM maturity, processes, policies and governance
- Complex software forecasting
- Optimised bills of materials
- Software contract and vendor negotiation
Control Spend and Risk Across Your Software Estate
Major Software Vendors
Think Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, SAP. These vendors come with complex licensing, high audit risk,and hybrid deployments.
Cloud and SaaS Vendors
SaaS-first vendors like ServiceNow, Adobe, and more. These carry less risk, and usage is usually measured through a publisher provided portal. But there’s high potential for cost leakage.
Tail Spend
Automatic renewals and tail spend are often overlooked. These are your smaller or niche software vendors. This is a world of many contracts, transactions and decentralised spend that cumulatively add up to millions.
Foundations Continuous data ingestion in Acuity
Our in-house Acuity AI-enabled data platform continuously ingests and normalizes software, cloud, hardware, contract, and user data, creating a living single source of truth that improves over time and breaks down data silos.
Enhanced insights Human experts continuously analyse and action opportunities
Your dedicated service lead and specialist consultants continuously pull opportunities from the discovery layer and prioritise them across three optimisation streams:
- Strategic vendors (traditional SAM and audit-risk focus)
- Subscriptions & cloud (ongoing usage, optimisation and trend management)
- Renewals & tail-spend (commercially-focused renewal dossiers for procurement)
Effort is dynamically allocated to the software that matters most, when it matters most.
Enhanced Insights Continuous optimization, savings and risk reduction
As your estate, priorities and business strategy evolve, we continuously adjust focus – swapping opportunities, publishers and value streams in and out, increasing or decreasing intensity, and ensuring value is realised rather than just identified.
Comprehensive support Take advantage of Livingstone’s expertise
Contract portfolios quickly spiral out of control if you don’t keep an eye on them. That’s why our team will always be on the lookout for potential gaps, risks and opportunities across your contract portfolio.
To help you manage your renewals more easily, we’ll improve your processes with ongoing digitisation and procurement support. We also save you money with recommendations for future contractual terms, price benchmarking and negotiation support for your largest and most complex contracts.
Evolving SAM From managing assets to managing investments
Software estates have become bigger, more complex and more dynamic. Organisations are managing traditional licences alongside SaaS, cloud consumption, AI, decentralised purchasing and an increasingly complex network of software contracts. As a result, significant software expenditure can sit outside the traditional SAM perimeter, spanning SaaS, cloud services, renewals, tail spend and decentralised purchasing.
That’s why at Livingstone, we believe the industry needs to move from Software Asset Management (SAM) to Software Investment Management (SIM). SIM takes the valuable data and expertise of SAM and applies it to the broader question of business value.
It’s a shift from tracking assets to managing investments that deliver returns, and from point-in-time compliance to continuous insight, optimisation and value realisation.
Recognised for Software Asset Management Leadership Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Software Asset Management Managed Services
Livingstone has been named a Leader in the 2025 Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ for Software Asset Management Managed Services and was positioned highest for Ability to Execute.
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Gartner, Magic Quadrant for Software Asset Management Managed Services, By Yolanda Harris, Jaswant Kalay, Rob Schafer, Charity Hooper , 29 September 2025
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