Ask most IT or finance leaders whether Software Asset Management is under control, and the first answer is usually yes. Ask a few more questions, and a different picture emerges: software costs keep climbing, audits stay reactive, and nobody is fully confident in the underlying data.
Traditional SAM was built to answer one question — what do we own — in a world of fixed seats and quarterly reviews. Today’s enterprise runs on SaaS subscriptions, cloud-linked licensing, and AI consumption billed by token, credit, and API call. None of that sits still long enough for a periodic inventory to stay accurate.
In this perspective, Qyrus covers:
- Why most SAM programs create an illusion of control — and what that gap actually costs
- Why visibility alone isn’t enough, and what “context” needs to mean
- The seven capabilities modern SSAM has to deliver
- Qyrus’s approach: continuous discovery, a live enterprise knowledge graph, and agentic execution
- Our recommendations for IT and finance leaders evaluating a platform
Qyrus was recently named a notable vendor in Forrester’s “The SaaS And Software Asset Management Solutions Landscape, Q3 2026.” [Read more →]
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