OVERVIEW
- £40,000 saved on license renewals within a year using Active Usage Tracking
- Seamless rollout across multiple locations within 1 week
- Broad visibility into previously undetected apps
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THE CUSTOMER
A well-established, independent construction and property services company in the UK, grown into a £1 billion industry leader with 2,200 employees. The company builds housing, schools, public venues, sports centers, and more across their communities, with a focus on environmental sustainability.
2,200
Number of employees
THE Challenge
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Perplexity AINo visibility into software usage, renewals based on guesswork
The company had no granular insight into application installations or usage across their IT environment. Without this, license renewals were based on educated guesswork, leaving significant optimization opportunities untouched.
“The key thing we wanted from a SAM platform was to understand the usage of software within our business. We had no visibility of usage prior to Xensam.”
The company’s Asset & Licensing Manager evaluated multiple tools on the market before choosing Xensam. Two things stood out: ease of use, and Active Usage Tracking that could deliver the granular usage insight they were looking for. Xensam’s one platform, one price model was also a deciding factor, giving the team access to all features without purchasing additional add-ons or modules.
“I love access to all the different modules, rather than having to purchase add-ons. Xensam has got it all in one subscription.”
Fast deployment, immediate data
Within a week, the company rolled out Xensam across multiple locations in easily executable phases. With the Xearch Agent in place, they had immediate access to quality data across their hybrid IT environment and the inventorying of a few hundred applications.
“Deployment took place smoothly and easily. We had the platform up and running almost immediately.”
Visibility into previously undetected applications
Xensam surfaced applications that had previously gone undetected, including old installations in hard-to-find file locations originating from previous projects or device users. Many had passed their end-of-service or EOL date, leaving them unpatched and vulnerable. Xensam’s recognition capabilities gave the team visibility and control of these installations. Network licenses, which many tools struggle to track, were also made visible, supporting upgrade and migration projects.
“Our initial focus after installing Xensam has been on optimizing all our known software. With Xensam’s visibility, we can then move on to the task of clearing up all the previously unknown apps that Xensam has illuminated for us.”
“It’s a big thing for us to see these apps that were previously undetected. It’s shown us how many apps can still be hidden from previous projects or device users.”
£40,000 saved on Adobe licenses within the first year
Using Active Usage Tracking, the company identified and canceled more than 200 unused Adobe licenses, saving £40,000 on their Adobe spend alone within the first year.
“Xensam is the place we go to see what applications are actually being used. It’s one of the major advantages with Xensam’s platform.”
“We’ve made back the cost of the platform with our renewal savings alone.”
“I love access to all the different modules, rather than having to purchase add-ons. Xensam has got it all in one subscription.”
