Southern Sun improves IT visibility with Certero Software Asset Management solution

13 April 2011

Southern Sun Hotels who has 40 years of experience in providing great hospitality to its local and international guests has today selected AssetStudio® to provide full visibility of the hotel chain’s licensing and compliance issues to reduce wasted spend on hardware and software. 

Southern Sun's portfolio of hotels provide world-class accommodation across all markets, and offer the widest distribution of hotels in South Africa in major urban centres and key leisure destinations. 

AssetStudio® is today’s solution to address the complexities of software asset management using unique automation to enable a real time Effective Licence Position. The specialist solution will simplify the management of Southern Sun’s software licensing and create cost savings through licence optimisation. 

Anthony Ivins, IT Manager at Southern Sun explains, “We had an enormous challenge to face in addressing our complex infrastructure comprising of hardware and software spread over a large geographical environment. To gain control over our hardware and software assets, for over 90 Hotels, required using a modern solution like AssetStudio® for this challenge, which will save us money, time, and help improve our operational efficiency, as well as enabling the organisation to easily establish and prove our effective licence position.” 

John Lunt, Managing Director and co-founder of Certero, adds, "With Software licensing accounting for over 30% of the IT budget, and industry analysts estimating that around 30% of deployed software as either unused or underused, organisations need effective Software Asset Management tools and processes. We are delighted to be working with Southern Sun to help them manage their hardware and software assets across multiple locations.”