The Strengthening Agency Management and Oversight of Software Assets (SAMOSA) Act has been reintroduced in the US Congress.
What the SAMOSA Act would do
- Require agencies to carry out comprehensive software inventories and independent assessments of their management practices and contracts.
- Push agencies to adopt agreements that improve costs and negotiating power against vendors.
- Require each agency to use the findings to plan how to (1) consolidate its software licenses, and (2) adopt enterprise license agreements by type or category of software, in order to improve performance and reduce unnecessary costs.
Read more in FedScoop’s report on the bill.
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About the author
Sheshagiri Anegondi
Managing Partner of Rythium Technologies. Seventeen years at Oracle, from 1998 to 2015, in leadership roles including Vice President Sales, after Compaq and Digital Equipment Corporation.
Author of “Licensing Oracle: The Reference Manual for Managing Oracle License Compliance & Procuring Oracle Software, Hardware, Cloud & Services” (2021, ISBN 10: 1639046887).
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