Software Life Cycle Management Standards - Real-world scenarios and solutions for savings

Get the benefits of the ISO19770 standard for software asset management

In Software Life Cycle Management Standards, David Wright calls on his vast experience to explain how the ISO/IEC 19770 standard applies to the whole of the software lifecycle. He gives up-to-date information using practical examples, clear diagrams and entertaining anecdotes. For software publishers and originators, the book explains each part of the Standard and what they all mean for developers. It discusses the software lifecycle from the perspectives of both the producer and the consumer/customer and explains how the SWID and SWEID tagging systems can help you pin down the client’s software and usage needs.

Understand your assets and save money

Software customers and consumers will find the book’s advice useful in generating savings by reducing the need for multiple SAM tools and reducing the need for the annual "true-up" event. The book also explains how to perform continuous, ongoing management of your software's (or SaaS) lifecycle, including deployment, usage, patches, and upgrades and to measure these against your entitlements. It will help readers understand the true business value of their software investment and demonstrate how to achieve all of this, even if your software supplier is not delivering ISO/IEC 19770 SWID and SWEID tags.

Contents

1. Software Asset Management: Both Sides of the Equation
2. Current Approaches in both Process and Technology
3. What is ISO/IEC 19770?
4. Introduction to the SWID Tag
5. Implementation of the ISO/IEC 19770-2 Process
6. The ISO/IEC 19770-2 SWID Tag Data Fundamentals
7. SWID Tag Certification Requirements
8. ISO/IEC 19770-3 Considerations
9. Software Feature Design Related to SWID/SWEID Tag Management for Tag Creators and Modifiers
10. SWID and SWEID Tag Management for Consumers