SAM Managed Services: Aspera (Vendor Profile)

SAM Managed Services: Aspera (Vendor Profile)

Aspera is one of nine providers that we reviewed for our SAM Managed Service Providers Review.

Aspera are based in Aachen, Germany with an office in Boston, USA and business partners worldwide.

Aspera offer SAM managed services to compliment their SmartTrack software. They position their SAM services as ‘License Management as a Service’ (LaaS).

For the purposes of our SAM managed services review we were looking for service providers who could work in partnership with customers, help them mature and stand shoulder-to-shoulder with them in the face of daily challenges. For this reason, Aspera’s SAM services are better described as ‘data cleanse’ as a service.

Aspera advise that clients start with one, two or three suppliers when embarking on SAM. They recommend starting with Microsoft, which they state can deliver some quick wins and the discovery of virtualization and infrastructure required to satisfy Microsoft reconciliations provides a good foundation for researching other datacentre software publishers.

Aspera’s primary focus is data to support enterprise SAM and not end-to-end SAM processes. Aspera have around 30 customers who have invested in ‘a remarkable amount of services’, it was unclear exactly how many of these have adopted LaaS.

Download the full SAM managed services report for free here.