Swiss-headquartered SoftwareONE has enhanced its software asset management portfolio with the acquisition of the SAMSentry technology, owned by Milton Keynes, UK-based Infraware.
The acquired product dashboard is used by hundreds of companies to manage their software and business applications, the UK Department for Education, Pilkington, HomeServe and Trenitalia among them.
The technology, which had been sold by partners and direct, will be incorporated into SoftwareONE’s managed services portfolio, to work in conjunction with SAM technologies such as Flexera, Snow and ServiceNow.
The added software will “drive additional value across the software estate while visualising findings and tracking on-going improvements for customers”, said SoftwareOne.
SAMSentry utilises insights derived from machine learning across millions of data points to manage and measure organisations against industry best practice. Through its dashboard, it helps organisations understand what action needs to be taken to improve efficiency and mitigate high-risk internal processes. It uses blockchain technology on the Microsoft Azure cloud.
Dieter Schlosser, CEO of SoftwareONE, said: “We never stand still when searching for the best solutions and services that make the difference to our customers. SAMSentry is a unique solution, it's a visual dashboard of maturity assessments combined with industry insights, project tracking and recommendations and is a compelling solution in the market.”
Terms of the deal were not disclosed, nor what this means for Infraware seeing it has sold its only product.
Last year, SoftwareONE acquired global IT service provider COMPAREX from Raiffeisen Informatik GmbH. The deal led to SoftwareONE helping customers optimise and manage an estimated combined €10bn in software purchases.
