Full‑stack visibility, continuous SAM, and audit‑ready governance with Optimal!
Ready to cut software spend, tighten compliance, and stabilise services, without tool sprawl? Explore Optimal 360 or contact Optimal for a free discovery call to start 2026 right.
Why optimisation is different in 2026
Optimisation is no longer about occasional clean‑ups or quarterly reviews. It’s a continuous discipline that blends domain consulting (EAM, RAM, reliability) with platform automation across hybrid estates. That’s the foundation of Optimal’s approach: pair expert advisory with Optimal360, an integrated stack that automates discovery, builds a living CMDB, maps dependencies, and embeds software compliance and license optimisation into day‑to‑day operations.
Optimal360: The Control Plane for Hybrid IT
Agentless discovery, scheduled for audit‑readiness: Optimal360 discovers physical servers, VMs, containers, network devices, storage arrays, endpoints (even legacy systems) using industry‑standard protocols (SNMP, WMI, SSH, IPMI) and cloud APIs. Scans can be scheduled and mixed (agentless + lightweight agents/collectors) to maintain an inventory that reflects the real state of your environment across on‑prem, cloud, and hybrid.
Dynamic dependency mapping: Knowing what you have is useful; knowing how it’s connected is transformative. Optimal360 continuously maps relationships across devices, apps, services, and cloud workloads crucial for change impact analysis, migration planning, and incident response. A living CMDB (not a spreadsheet): Inventory flows into a Configuration Management Database that updates automatically as assets change state, providing a single source of truth aligned to ITSM, compliance, and audit needs.
Continuous SAM: spend control, compliance, and risk reduction
End‑to‑end SAM integrated with discovery: Optimal’s SAM services combine analytics, automation, and AI‑driven insights to track software across Windows and Linux, capturing installed apps whether running or dormant. Integrated with Optimal360, SAM gives you usage metering, cost allocation, and compliance intelligence in one place.
License harvesting as a standing practice: Rather than accept dark spend, Optimal operationalises license harvesting: identify idle or under‑used entitlements and reallocate them to active demand.
Flexible models, proactive alerts, audit‑ready evidence: Optimal360 supports device, user, CPU/core, CAL, and subscription licensing. Alerts flag under/over‑utilisation, approaching renewals, and unauthorised installs, while dashboards expose compliance, risk, and spend, so audits become routine governance rather than fire drills.
Asset performance management: reliability engineering for IT‑OT convergence
Optimal’s heritage is asset‑intensive industries such as Oil & Gas, Mining, Nuclear, Power Generation, Manufacturing, Utilities, Chemical, and Pharma, where RAM modelling, maintenance strategy optimisation, and integrity management are non‑negotiable. We bring that discipline to digital infrastructure, improving change success, service reliability, and capacity utilisation across IT‑OT environments.
Operating model: governance, metrics, and cadence
Governance patterns you can adopt on day one: RACI + policy integration, Security alignment, Audit cadence. KPI suite for 2026 (illustrative targets): Visibility Coverage ≥95%, License Utilisation 85–95%, MTTR Reduction measurable improvement, Audit Findings zero material non‑conformances.
Deployment blueprint: prove value in 12 weeks
Weeks 0–2 Baseline & discovery setup: Connect Optimal360 to network segments, schedule scans, and establish CMDB sync.
Weeks 3–6 Map, normalise, and govern: Normalise assets, tag business services, build dependency maps; configure license models and alerts.
Weeks 7–9 Optimise and embed: Run the first harvest cycle; integrate dashboards with ITSM reporting.
Weeks 10–12 Prove and scale: Present savings, compliance posture, and reliability improvements; agree quarterly cadence and scale.
Sector snapshots: where Optimal repeatedly moves the needle
Energy & Utilities: Align SAM and maintenance strategies with safety‑critical compliance.
Manufacturing: Reclaim high‑value engineering licenses, maintain audit‑ready inventories across plant IT/OT.
Public Sector & Healthcare: Centralise spend and usage to withstand audits; operate with least‑privilege software footprints.
What good looks like by Q4 2026
Cost: Lower total software spend through continuous harvesting and right‑sizing.
Risk: Reduced audit exposure via embedded compliance and a trustworthy CMDB.
Velocity: Faster change cycles and incident resolution thanks to dependency maps.
Resilience: Decisions made on shared, current data, supported by governance and industry expertise.
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