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The Certero Chest Agreement offers preferential terms and conditions for Certero for Enterprise Standard Edition, Certero App-Centre, and SaaS (M365 & Adobe) Module, plus Certero Professional Services, Certero Implementation and Configuration Services, Certero PowerStudio and Certero-delivered training.
Software Asset Management (SAM) is a cybersecurity strategy that helps organisations manage their software throughout its lifecycle.
Agreement start: 01/12/2023
Agreement end: 30/11/2026
Subsequent invoice date: Institutions choosing to pay annually will be invoiced annually. In order for Jisc to be able to pay the supplier in a timely manner, invoices for years two and three will be issued up to three months in advance of the licence anniversary date.
Institutions may participate in the Agreement at any time during the agreement period, and are bound by its Terms and Conditions, including payments, until the end of the three-year Licence Period.
Per device / per user subscription
Scoping discussions and demos are available for the Certero technology solutions included in this Agreement. Limited-scale POCs are also available if required.
Higher and Further Education and Research Councils in the United Kingdom, and to Universities and Colleges of Further Education in the Republic of Ireland.
Other organisations aligned with Chest's charitable objectives of supporting education, research bodies and the public sector may ask to participate in the Agreement. Chest will liaise with the Supplier about any such requests.
Licensor: Certero Ltd (company number 06387180), of Cedarwood 2, Kelvin Close, Birchwood, Warrington, WA3 7PB.
Certero Enterprise Standard Edition provides a simple, immediate solution for any size organisation to gain clarity and control over IT Hardware, Software and to be able to harness meaningful IT systems intelligence straight-out-of-the-box.
With the assurance that comes with Certero’s completeness of inventory and depth of asset information, Certero can transform your ITAM & SAM process into one of readily available information, safe decisions and measurable benefits… All from a convenient and modern Single Platform Solution that provides:
Single Platform Benefits: A Single Source of the Truth & A Single UI with all asset information consolidated and cleansed by default within the single platform, detailed information is readily available through a Single User Interface – a single IT systems intelligence solution, providing meaningful insight and convenient, focused reporting, customizable user ‘dashboards’ trend analysis and alerting at any management level.
Rapid Time-To-Value with a solution provisioned in hours/days, simply as SaaS or On-premises.
Fundamental asset Data Quality, Depth & Detail such as MS SQL versions, editions, clusters, data paths, reporting and analysis services or MS Exchange Server editions, mailboxes, mailbox sizes & mailbox features in use.
ISO 27001 Accredited Solution & Vendor for security end-to-end.
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Enables users to efficiently browse, request and receive the applications they need in minutes – without impacting IT support.
Certero App-Centre’s self-service software portal empowers users to help themselves, whilst providing the control needed by IT departments to maintain compliance and manage costs.
Certero App-Centre comes with an intuitive interface, which can be personalized to match your organisational branding. Applications can be installed automatically or configured for multi-level approval. Software applications are distributed through Certero for Enterprise ITAM or by integrating with Microsoft SCCM.
Certero App-Centre can also be integrated into any ITSM or SAM tool, supporting license compliance and optimization objectives, and offers a complete audit trail with powerful and dynamic reports for software requests, approvals and installations.
Class-Leading Support & Services, from the vendor with the happiest customers in SAM, as evidenced by customers reviews verified by Gartner’s Peer Insights.
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Software-as-a-Service has made the latest and greatest software available to everyone, but with this flexibility comes a significant risk of overspending and Shadow IT.
These cost and security risks need to be controlled. To do so, complex user and usage data from the SaaS portals needs to be centralized, clarified and refined into intelligence that can be acted upon by businesses with confidence.
Certero for SaaS is therefore a solution to help you see, understand, and optimize your SaaS subscriptions with ease, addressing the greatest SaaS challenges.
SaaS Cost Management
Insight into Usage:
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Certero provide a range of professional services to help organizations optimize spend, mitigate risk and drive efficiencies.
Certero can support you by creating a personalized optimization report highlighting any risks in detail and the mitigation actions that you can take to reduce them. For any areas of over-spend, we identify where you can potentially reduce your software costs and what financial benefits you could achieve through recommended actions.
Independent and Impartial: Many SAM Service providers are also in business to re-sell software licenses, presenting a commercial conflict of interest when you need to atone for any licensing short-fall they have identified for you. Similarly, many SAM Service providers are employed by the software vendors to undertake audit or ‘baselining’ activity on their behalf.
Certero’s independence means that we have absolutely no commercial interests to sell you licenses or share information with 3rd parties – it’s just not part of our business model. So, you can have peace of mind that our license management experts have only your best interests at heart and are only incentivized to save you money wherever possible.
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Certero’s Implementation and Configuration Services help ensure that your new Certero ITAM and SAM Solution is installed correctly, has complete estate coverage, and is configured to your individual needs. Utilizing this service provides you with peace of mind that your organization will enjoy the full value of our technology in the quickest possible time.
This service is mandatory with all new purchases.
PowerStudio is an out-of-the-box, enterprise-level, PC Power Management software solution which, by applying centralized computer power policies, enables organizations to meet energy-saving goals without affecting user productivity.
With no dependencies on third-party products like SCCM, PowerStudio makes it easy to create and enforce flexible power policies. Customizable dashboards and a business intelligence engine make it easy to calculate and share insight into cost, carbon, energy and time savings.
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Certero training provides highly effective and efficient knowledge transfer from Certero’s experts on a wide range of topics from principals of ITAM & SAM, to solution-specific courses to help you extract the maximum value from your Certero products and solutions.
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Scoping discussions and demos are available for the Certero technology solutions included in this Agreement. Limited-scale POCs are also available if required.
Datasheets on all of Certero’s products and services can be found here
Details on Certero training content and schedules can be found here
Technical support is provided directly by Certero. Customers are given a login to our Customer Centre, where support tickets can be raised, as required.
Any updates, new releases or changes in functionality will be communicated by Certero or via Chest.
Find out more about Certero with the following two videos:
Click here to view Certero's Video and webinar Library.
Click here to read one of the case studies where Certero has been used to to support a University to achieve "centralised visibility, clarity and control over their IT estate".
Click below to watch the video to see how "PowerStudio – an out-of-the-box, enterprise-level, PC power management solution – enables organisations to effectively control PC power usage, reducing electricity costs and CO2 emissions"
Click here to read a case study on how "PowerStudio saves the NHS over £3 million ad 20K tonnes of carbon every year".
Read the PowerStudio ebook for further information.
SaaS Shadow IT: Bringing Shadow SaaS Spend and Risks Under Control
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