Software Asset Management (SAM)
The practice of tracking software entitlements vs. deployments to stay compliant and avoid over-spend.
SAM is the cousin of HAM (Hardware Asset Management). It tracks licenses owned (entitlements) against licenses deployed (consumption), and flags discrepancies before vendors do.
Vendor audits are the single biggest financial risk of poor SAM. The mid-market audit settlement averages well over USD 200K.
AssetMon's license module tracks seats used vs. owned in real time and flags over-deployment automatically.