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Shruthi Ganji

Global Software License & Provider Manager
Hamburg,HH
Shruthi Ganji

Summary

Experienced Software Licensing & Asset Management Consultant with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in tools like ILMT, Bigfix, Flexera, SNOW, ServiceNow and Tier1 publishers MS, SAP, IBM & Oracle license management & compliance.

Dedicated SAM professional with a history of meeting company goals utilizing consistent and organized practices. Skilled in working under pressure and adapting to new situations and challenges to best drive the organizational success.

Overview

12
years of professional experience
4
years of post-secondary education
3
Certifications
2
Languages

Work History

Olympus EMEA

Global Software License & Provider Manager
07.2023 - Current

Job overview

  • Company Overview: Global Provider and Software License Manager
  • Build and maintain strong vendor relationships, negotiate favorable contracts and SLAs, and ensure compliance throughout the contract lifecycle.
  • Develop and monitor performance metrics, generating regular reports for senior management, and address service delivery issues promptly.
  • My role involves controlling costs, identifying savings opportunities, and conducting cost-benefit analyses.
  • Mitigate risks, ensure provider compliance, and conduct regular audits.
  • Contribute to strategic planning, align provider services with organizational goals, and manage the selection and onboarding of new providers.
  • Additionally, I act as a liaison between stakeholders and providers, implement process improvements, stay updated on industry trends, and provided training on best practices.
  • Manage software licenses across multiple regions, ensuring compliance with vendor agreements and preparing for audits.
  • Optimized license usage by analyzing data to identify cost-saving opportunities and negotiate favorable terms with vendors.
  • Develop and enforce software usage policies, integrate SAM tools, and generate reports to support decision-making.
  • Managing budgets, forecasting needs, and leading projects related to software licensing.
  • Maintaining strong vendor relationships, ensure adherence to compliance standards, and provide training on software asset management best practices to internal teams.
  • Global Provider and Software License Manager

SoftwareONE Deutschland GmbH

Senior SAM Consultant
01.2020 - 07.2023

Job overview

  • Generate and present license compliance reports by leveraging existing software asset management tool (Flexera, SNOW & ILMT) and software discovery tool, evaluate business/financial impact, determine the clients current license position and communicate results and recommendations to management, business and technology units and legal.
  • Ensure license entitlements and software utilization data are maintained in existing software asset management tool.
  • Provide recommendations by collaborating closely with Software Category Manager, Sourcing Managers and internal customers on how to license, reconcile, re-harvest, transfer and document licensing entitlements to drive demand management savings opportunities regionally.
  • Determine best strategy to review and extract key data points and metrics from sources such as software asset management tool, software discovery tool, contracts, entitlements, etc for identifying savings opportunities.
  • Own and build strong relationships with the customers and vendors.
  • Closely interact with Service Delivery Managers, Supplier Management and further parties to ensure high quality of Software Asset management processes.
  • Assist clients in the development and execution of processes to support software compliance for regulatory, vendor audits, and internal auditing compliance efforts.
  • Assist clients to develop, implement, and refine software asset management policies, processes and procedures.

Anglepoint

Senior Consultant
05.2019 - 11.2019

Job overview

  • Provide regular Software Compliance reporting (mainly for IBM & Oracle) from multiple data sources and develop critical analyses of our customer's software usage and entitlement positions.
  • Interpret customer's software license agreements and identify rules, obligations, and product metrics to ensure compliance with all software licenses agreements and software usage.
  • Verify software deployment data by combination of discussions with the line of business owners and leveraging of software discovery tools, identifying under-deployments for potential cost savings and over-deployments that require the acquisition of additional rights.
  • Assist customer's business line staff in monitoring and ensuring software contract compliance.
  • Gather requirements and develop reports for customers.
  • Work with team leadership, business groups, and accounting staff to analyze and resolve complex issues associated with software licensing rights.
  • Assist customer's in software vendor audits and negotiations.

Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India

Senior Consultant
01.2018 - 04.2019

Job overview

  • Handling global contracts for Oracle and IBM publisher for all the legal entities of Daimler.
  • Service owner for Oracle & IBM license management and support for legal entities of Daimler across APAC, EMEA, LATAM regions.
  • Defining new contracts, amendments for Oracle & IBM publisher.
  • Conducting Annual Software Survey for Oracle & IBM publisher data for all the legal entities at Daimler and reporting the usage for cross charging.
  • Handling Flexera support requests related to IBM & Oracle software discovery, license mapping, bundling, consumption reports etc., and defining optimization tasks.

SoftwareONE

SAM Consultant
06.2017 - 12.2017

Job overview

  • Leading the ILMT implementation, health check & optimization projects for global customers across APAC, EMEA, LATAM regions.
  • Service delivery for Bigfix solutions and support for global customers across APAC, EMEA, LATAM regions.
  • Defining ILMT & Bigfix project scoping and price quotes.
  • Preparing IBM Compliance Entitlement Analysis, Script Analysis, ELP reports.

IBM

Software Consultant
06.2015 - 06.2017

Job overview

  • ILMT (IBM License Metric Tool) & Bigfix implementation which includes ILMT offering, installation, running scans, reporting, bundling and training.
  • Development of custom software signature in SWKBT (Software knowledge Base Toolkit).
  • Testing the catalog in TAD4D (Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed) local environment.
  • Implementation of software catalog at customer site.
  • Training & Knowledge transfer for custom software signature development & Testing.
  • Customization of the asset attributes in Smart Cloud Control Desk.
  • Database configuration and application designing.
  • Importing the custom asset attributes data.
  • IBM Bigfix Implementation & Configuration of Life cycle Management Features.
  • Configuration of Patch Management, Software Distribution, Asset Discovery & Inventory, Webreports.
  • Training & Knowledge transfer for IBM Bigfix Installation, Implementation & Configuration Activities.
  • Installing and configuring the following IBM Tivoli Monitoring components: Hub Tivoli Monitoring Server, Remote Monitoring Servers, Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server, Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server & Portal desktop client, Monitoring agents for servers, SAP Application agents.
  • Enabling Application Support for SAP (ABAP).
  • Configuring Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers.
  • Handling installation and configuration issues.

Amazon Services

Customer Support Engineer
10.2013 - 04.2014

Job overview

Education

Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University

Bachelor's degree from Information Technology
01.2009 - 01.2013

University Overview

Skills

Vendor Management

Certification

GDPR Compliance: Essential Training

Timeline

Global Software License & Provider Manager
Olympus EMEA
07.2023 - Current
Senior SAM Consultant
SoftwareONE Deutschland GmbH
01.2020 - 07.2023
Senior Consultant
Anglepoint
05.2019 - 11.2019
Senior Consultant
Mercedes-Benz Research and Development India
01.2018 - 04.2019
SAM Consultant
SoftwareONE
06.2017 - 12.2017
Software Consultant
IBM
06.2015 - 06.2017
Customer Support Engineer
Amazon Services
10.2013 - 04.2014
Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University
Bachelor's degree from Information Technology
01.2009 - 01.2013

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