Rentokil Initial enhances software management

Business services group hopes to generate big savings via improved view of IT systems

Software management system is expected to prompt savings with better inventory functionality

Business services group Rentokil Initial is using an enterprise software management system which is expected to generate a “six-figure” saving on licence purchasing.

The software will also allow the group to comply with legal requirements and regulatory compliance by gaining an improved overview of the group’s software portfolio, which had grown through a series of acquisitions.

“Over recent years Rentokil Initial had acquired and disposed of a large number of businesses and historically, software acquisition was completed on a local basis,” said Rentokil’s chief information officer Brian Kinsella.

“We did not have a clear understanding of our estate in terms of compliance or numbers and needed to get controls in place as quickly as possible,” he said.

Areas covered by the system comprise asset inventory, software use, contract terms, purchase order data and licence compliance management.

The platform is supplied by ManageSoft.