Loan provider Provident Financial has enagaged Business Continuity Services' Software Organiser to manage the software licences for its 3,500 desktop computers, which it hopes will save around £350,000 in licensing fees.

Peter Sloane, IT manager at Provident Financial said: “We were able to review our licence position and realise that, in some cases, we've overbought in the past. New people come and people go, and new pieces of software come in, so it is a constant management process.

Andy Fisher, business development director at BCS explained: "LanDesk provides two primary data sets – the discovery data and the licensing entitlement data, which comes from volume licence agreements, procurement systems and historical licencing data. Business Continuity Services brings those two data sets together to allow the software compliance optimisation to take place."