"The Hungarian Standards Institution (MSzT) has adopted the ISO/IEC 19770-1 international standard for software asset management as a Hungarian national standard.The MSZ ISO/IEC 19970-1 standard, valid from September, describes internationally acknowledged processes based on industry practices, facilitating the efficient and secure performance of complicated software asset management for professional fields such as corporate governance, informatics and finances.
It is significant in that it renders the registration of installed software and licences, just as the handling of other related documents, much more transparent and correct. By complying with the standard, companies will be able to verify, both outside and within their organization, that they perform their software asset management activities in compliance with statutory regulations.
But they will also save considerable sums via the more rational management of software. The launch of the Hungarian national standard, two years after the international form, follows cooperation between the MSzT, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) in Hungary, and IPR-Insights Kft, which prepared the Hungarian translation of the standard.
Asset management
BSA Hungary supported the issuance of the national standard as an initiative that facilitates the spreading of responsible software asset management among Hungarian institutions and companies of all sizes, and that relates to activities aimed at restricting illegal software use.
The standard both reduces the legal and financial risks of operations, and improves competitiveness.
“A further advantage is that, from now on, software asset management systems can be certified by independent parties, which also adds to the operating security of companies abiding by the law,” a BSA spokesman said."
Source: Budapest Sun
02.10.2008