OREANDA-NEWS. November 22, 2013. The results of a routine check carried out by KPMG, one of the world’s biggest international auditors, showed the Bank to be operating strictly in line with its Microsoft licensing agreements, with no discrepancies between purchased software licenses and those in use

The auditor checked several hundred servers and a few thousand Microsoft workstations. Uniastrum uses over 10,000 Microsoft product licenses.

After completing the audit, Microsoft Rus thanked the Bank’s Vice President for Information Technology, Alexei Yemelyanov, for his cooperation and for the efficient way the license management was organized.

“Late last year Uniastrum began using state-of-the-art software asset management (SAM), which includes various operations for optimizing the structure of software by regularly monitoring IT programs, standardizing workflows, predicting personnel needs for essential work tools, etc. By using this approach when it comes to analyzing software applications we were able to improve their performance. Today the Bank has an optimum amount of Microsoft licenses to ensure work of the highest quality, as, indeed, was confirmed by the audit,” Alexei Yemelyanov noted.

“Deploying SAM protects the client’s strategic investments in a company’s IT assets and ensures that up-to-date information is permanently available as regards what software has been purchased, how much there is of it and also concerning the terms of the licensing agreement to use it,” says Dmitri Beresnev, head of the corporation’s licensed software marketing department in Russia. “This example, and the large amount of work achieved together, plainly shows the advantages to be gained in terms of real savings on the Bank’s IT infrastructure and by steering clear from improper and incomplete licenses for software products.”