The METRO retail group and Helaba commercial bank were honored for their outstanding achievements in the company-wide implementation of software asset and license management strategies. With 51% of the votes, METRO’s project took first place and received the prestigious SAMS Award 2021. Helaba was also honored with the Jury Special Mention Award.

For the METRO project, challenges for the SAM managers included: complete transparency over the decentralized IT infrastructure, risk assessment at any time, compliance for the most important software vendors, and cost-optimized software deployment across all METRO companies in more than 30 countries.

As a basis for successful SAM, the first task by METRO was to achieve maximum data quality. Raynet’s Technology Asset Inventory solution RayVentory made it possible to consolidate the data and provide more than 60 METRO-specific reports in an automated way. Further processing takes place in USU Software Asset Management. Today, this guarantees not only the minimization of legal and financial risks, but also of software costs. For example, METRO is able to immediately identify unused licenses on the more than 80,000 clients and always adjust the portfolio.