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OVERVIEW
- Full visibility of previously hidden SaaS applications, data centers, and servers
- Precise compliance overview aligned to license management insights
- Security risks addressed: torrent software identified, EOL monitoring in place
- Automated reporting on license compliance, security, and budget forecasting
- Monthly CIO reporting on license position with Standard Reports
THE CUSTOMER
Established in 1910, CABI promotes scientific knowledge to guide strategies addressing urgent global challenges including hunger, poverty, gender inequality, climate change, and biodiversity loss. The organization has a workforce of more than 500 people globally.
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THE Challenge
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Perplexity AILeft in the dark with a legacy SAM tool
CABI’s global, distributed IT environment requires high data accuracy to allocate licenses correctly across users and devices. Security and compliance are significant concerns. Their previous SAM tool struggled to address both: visibility of many major vendors was only available at extra cost, leaving blind spots in their software environment. And when data was needed, getting it out was far from straightforward.
“Getting information out of our old tool was a time-consuming nightmare. It felt like you had to be a SQL database engineer to pull reports.”
— Edward Robinson, Procurement Manager, CABI
Xensam stood out during evaluation for the depth of its preconfigured reporting capabilities and the breadth of its software visibility, both of which were key requirements for CABI’s stakeholders.
“Xensam was the only platform that offered such extensive preconfigured reporting. The ease of use is a world away from any other provider.”
“Xensam’s visibility was a major selling point for our CIO. We regularly use the compliance overview to manage licensing.”
— Edward Robinson, Procurement Manager, CABI
Full visibility of hidden applications, servers, and SaaS
Through Xensam’s AI-powered software recognition, CABI has gained comprehensive visibility into its hybrid IT environment, covering previously hidden SaaS applications, data centers, and servers. This has helped the team consolidate duplicate applications and manage software proliferation. With a complete view of all applications, CABI’s SAM team can align them with license management insights to maintain a precise compliance overview.
Security risks identified and addressed
Improved visibility has enabled CABI to tackle security issues directly, identifying unwanted torrent software on devices and monitoring applications and operating systems that have passed their End of Life date.
Automated reporting for key stakeholders
With Xensam’s Standard Reports, CABI now has access to the metrics that matter most without manual data gathering. Reports covering license compliance, security, upcoming EOL instances, and budget forecasting are generated automatically and shared with stakeholders across the organization, including a monthly license position report to the CIO.
“The reporting capability has been extremely useful. We use them for a monthly report to our CIO on our license position.”
— Edward Robinson, Procurement Manager, CABI
A foundation for further consolidation
With software visibility now in place, CABI is planning further consolidation efforts in the coming year.
“Xensam will be a huge part of our consolidation journey in the coming year.”
— Edward Robinson, Procurement Manager, CABI
“Xensam’s visibility was a major selling point for our CIO. We regularly use the compliance overview to manage licensing.”
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