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Understand Your Technology Investments
Join industry leaders who trust Anglepoint, a seven-time consecutive leader in Gartner’s® Magic Quadrant™ for SAM Managed Services. Unlock the full potential of your software, cloud, and technology investments and drive your organization’s success.
Experience the Benefits of SAM Managed Services
Anglepoint’s SAM Managed Services deliver impactful results to your organization.
Transform Your Technology Landscape
Experience a comprehensive approach to Software Asset Management (SAM) that assesses, designs, implements, operates, and transforms your SAM programs. This ensures you get maximum value from your technology investments.
Achieve Transformational Outcomes
Leverage top-tier expertise and innovative methodologies to achieve transformational results that align with your business goals. SAM Managed Services empower organizations to reduce IT waste, mitigate risks, and optimize software utilization.
Navigate Challenges with Confidence
Overcome the complexities of software asset management with tailored solutions designed to address your unique challenges. Benefit from insights gained from working with some of the largest organizations worldwide, ensuring you stay ahead in a rapidly evolving industry.
Gain Expertise on Demand
Access specialized knowledge and resources as your needs change. Our experts adapt to your organization’s changing needs, providing the right level of support exactly when you need it.
Why Anglepoint?
Our SAM Managed Services help organizations tackle immediate challenges while building resilience.
Achieve Your Business Goals with SAM Managed Services
Expert Guidance Through Challenges: With extensive hands-on experience supporting hundreds of clients, our team not only helps you address current challenges, but also proactively works to prevent and minimize future disruptions. Our SAM Managed Services clients benefit from our deep knowledge of software asset management best practices and insights from the world’s largest organizations.
Tailored Expertise When You Need It: Our customized, borderless approach blends tactical and strategic methods, delivering world-class expertise to address your evolving needs. Our modular services are designed to achieve both short- and long-term goals while remaining flexible as your program grows.
A Clear Path to Success: Every organization is at a different stage in its SAM journey. We create customized paths to meet your specific objectives, leveraging certified experts and our Elevate® platform to deliver intelligent automation, streamline management, and address gaps across people, processes, and technology.
Drive Value and Enable Transformation: Anglepoint’s SAM Managed Services go beyond traditional SAM by integrating the principles of Software Asset Management, FinOps, and Green IT. Our proactive, hands-on approach integrates our experts closely with your team, driving real change and continuous improvement, ensuring transformative and measurable results.
SAM Challenges
Identify and Solve Your Key SAM Challenges
- Increasing software costs and SaaS sprawl
- Inefficient, manual software approval and deployment processes
- Insufficient SAM governance and Executive sponsorship
- Limited visibility into software and cloud usage
- Looming security, software and compliance risks
- Low leverage in software vendor contract renewals
- Misaligned or missing key performance indicators (KPIs) for SAM programs
- Misunderstood business value of SAM across the business
- Difficulty in sourcing and recruiting skilled software asset management professionals
- Unrealized return on investment from SAM technology or services
- Inaccurate or incomplete data for cloud, software, and hardware management
A Flexible SAM Partner
Kenny Harthun from BCBS Michigan explains why having a flexible SAM Managed Service partner is necessary to make their program successful. Because of frequent mergers & acquisitions, BCBS Michigan needed a partner who could ebb and flow with an ever-changing environment.
SAM Managed Services FAQs
What's included in SAM Managed Services?
Proactive license compliance management, vendor true-up preparation, cost optimization, audit support, and ongoing reporting, delivered within your SAM tool. We manage data quality, configure entitlements and license rules, and maintain reconciliation results and dashboards so your team can track license positions, savings opportunities, and outstanding actions.
Which vendors are covered?
All major vendors, including IBM, Microsoft, Oracle, SAP, Salesforce, and VMware, plus dozens of additional publishers such as Adobe, Broadcom, and Autodesk. Our consultants bring deep, vendor-specific knowledge of each publisher's licensing rules rather than generic coverage.
How does this service help with audits?
SAM Managed Services keeps organizations audit-ready continuously, identifying compliance gaps and maintaining accurate entitlements before an audit notice ever arrives, and Anglepoint supports clients directly through the audit itself when one does.
How does Anglepoint ensure accuracy in data within your SAM tool?
We configure and validate data integrations, software recognition, and license reconciliation within your SAM tool, checking results against vendor contracts and entitlements. Ongoing data quality checks and refinement of mappings and license rules help maintain a reliable license position across reporting cycles.
How do SAM Managed Services compare to in-house teams?
Anglepoint extends internal teams rather than replacing them, adding publisher-specific expertise, broader market insight, and Elevate's automation where internal bandwidth or specialization is limited, while your team retains ownership of the relationship and priorities.
What results can clients expect in year one?
Most clients see reduced audit exposure, 10 to 30 percent savings on software spend, and materially greater visibility into their IT estate within the first year.
Can services scale globally?
Yes. Anglepoint runs a borderless operating model built specifically to support multinational organizations with complex environments across regions.
How does Anglepoint collaborate with clients?
We operate as an extension of your ITAM team, with shared visibility through Elevate's real-time reporting and a steady focus on the priorities that matter most to your business, not a black-box engagement where updates only arrive at milestones.
What makes Anglepoint different in SAM Managed Services?
Recognition as a 7x Gartner® Magic Quadrant™ Leader for SAM Managed Services and the first-ever IDC MarketScape Leader in the category (both in 2025), deep vendor expertise, and a track record of $600M+ in client savings and $1B+ in cost avoidance across 200+ dedicated professionals.
