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Edstellar

IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Software License Optimization Corporate Training

Master ITAM, license optimization, and cloud cost control in this instructor-led corporate training program for your IT teams.

As a corporate training company, Edstellar helps your team learn how to track every asset, optimize every license, and govern cloud and SaaS spend. This instructor-led program blends live teaching with guided labs, so your employees build practical skills to run audits, cut software costs, and apply ITAM best practices in their day-to-day work.

Instructor-led group trainingVirtual / on-site / hybrid10+ languagesDelivered in English, Spanish, Mandarin, German, Arabic, Portuguese, Hindi, French, Japanese, Italian, and more100+ countriesWe have delivered in United States, United Kingdom, India, Canada, Germany, France, Netherlands, UAE, Saudi Arabia, Singapore, Australia, Japan, Brazil, South Africa and 90+ more countries

How we build a license-smart asset team

The Edstellar IT ASSET MANAGEMENT Capability Model

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  1. Diagnose asset gaps

    We map your current inventory accuracy, license blind spots, and cost leakage before design begins.

  2. Standardize ITAM practice

    Your team learns a consistent discovery, entitlement, and audit workflow tuned to your estate.

  3. Practice in guided labs

    Every technique is drilled in hands-on labs using realistic asset and license scenarios.

  4. Measure savings and risk

    We review audit readiness and quantified optimization targets against your baseline.

  5. Scale governance

    Rollout rhythms and playbooks help you sustain ITAM gains across every team and site.

24
approxhours
6modules
DeliveryInstructor-led(Onsite / Virtual / Hybrid)
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Program Overview: What is IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Software License Optimization?

IT Asset Management (ITAM) & Software License Optimization is Edstellar's instructor-led program for IT, finance, and procurement teams paying for more software than they use. It covers ITAM foundations and discovery, licensing and entitlements, license audits and true-ups, and optimization across six modules and 24 hours. Participants learn to turn license sprawl into governed, measurable savings. It is built for teams under pressure to cut software spend without breaking compliance.

Training is hands-on from the first module. Participants reconcile entitlements against deployments for realistic estates, model true-up scenarios, and build optimization business cases in six guided labs. Instructors coach each team through audit defense, SaaS governance, and cost modeling, giving direct feedback on their savings calculations. Modules progress from discovery through licensing, audits, optimization, and cloud governance. It closes with an end-to-end ITAM optimization plan reviewed by the instructor.

Software is now one of the largest unmanaged line items in enterprise IT, with unused seats, duplicate tools, and vendor true-ups draining budgets. License audits punish poor records with penalties. This program teaches your teams to optimize properly: reconciled entitlements, governed SaaS, and defensible audit positions that convert license waste into recurring savings.

The capstone is an end-to-end ITAM optimization plan for the scenario enterprise: discovery findings, reconciliation report, optimization roadmap with quantified savings, and an audit-defense playbook, defended in a review with the instructor. Your teams return with the numbers, the plan, and the license craft to make software spend visible and controllable.

Across six modules, your team moves from ITAM foundations to a full optimization capability: asset discovery, license models, simulated audits, reharvesting plans, and SaaS governance. Each module pairs live teaching with labs, so learning transfers into the workflows your team owns. The program ends with a capstone: a full ITAM optimization plan for your estate, with a quantified savings roadmap and audit-ready evidence practices to sustain the gains.

What's Included in this Workshop for Your Enterprise Teams

In the program
  1. 1

    Instructor-led live sessions

    Live teaching across virtual, onsite, and hybrid.

  2. 2

    Guided hands-on labs in every module

    Supervised labs using realistic asset scenarios.

  3. 3

    Capstone optimization plan

    An ITAM plan for your estate, reviewed together.

  4. 4

    Lab guides and templates

    Checklists, trackers, and audit evidence templates.

  5. 5

    Flexible team scheduling

    Batches scheduled around your team's calendar.

Delivery and logistics
  • Instructor-led delivery across virtual, onsite, and hybrid
  • Guided labs in every module with instructor coaching
  • Capstone optimization plan, reviewed with your team
  • Flexible scheduling around your calendar
  • Lab guides and reusable checklists included
  • Group size and batches set along with you

Build your team's skills. Anywhere in the world.

  • Real-world use cases

    from day one

  • Instructor-led training

    for your teams

  • Delivered globally

    in 100+ countries

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IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Software License Optimization Course Topics and Program Outline

Six modules take your team from ITAM foundations to a working optimization capability. Live instruction, guided labs, and a capstone project are sequenced so each concept is practiced before the next one builds on it.

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Built by Edstellar with ITAM and licensing practitioners

Built by practitioners who run IT asset management programs and license audits in production, shaped around your stack and use cases.

6 modules~24 hours6 practice sessions1 capstone
Assess

Skill checks baseline your team's asset inventory maturity, license data accuracy, and cost-visibility gaps before the program begins.

Learn

Live instruction covers ITAM foundations, license models, and entitlement tracking across 6.5 focused hours.

Practice

Guided labs build audit, reharvesting, and SaaS governance skill across 12.5 hours of supervised hands-on practice.

Apply

Your team ships a full ITAM optimization plan in a 5-hour capstone, reviewed against audit and cost-saving targets.

Assess 4%
Learn 13%
Practice 65%
Apply 18%

From asset discovery to a license optimization roadmap, every technique is practiced in guided labs.

Delivered as

~24 hours6 modules6 guided labs1 capstone project

Delivered as a hybrid program of live instruction and guided labs, scheduled in flexible batches around your team's calendar.

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4 topics~3.00 h
02

4 topics~3.30 h
03

4 topics~4.00 h
04

4 topics~4.00 h
05

4 topics~4.30 h
06

4 topics~5.00 h

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Key Skills and Outcomes Your Team Will Gain

By the end of the program, your team will have the practical competency to run IT asset management as a continuous discipline: accurate inventories, defensible audits, and measurable license savings.

  • Build IT asset inventories

    Run discovery across hardware, software, and cloud estates and keep the asset register accurate for life.

  • Read license entitlements

    Decode perpetual, subscription, and consumption license terms and match entitlements to real deployments.

  • Run software license audits

    Prepare for vendor audits, calculate effective license positions, and manage true-ups with defensible evidence.

  • Cut software license costs

    Find shelfware, reharvest underused licenses, right-size editions, and prepare renewals that strengthen negotiation.

  • Govern SaaS and cloud spend

    Discover shadow IT, manage subscription sprawl, and allocate cloud costs with clear showback reporting.

  • Build audit-ready evidence

    Maintain license evidence packs and remediation records that satisfy internal and external auditors.

  • Pitch ITAM business cases

    Present optimization roadmaps with quantified savings to stakeholders and finance teams.

Teams that Benefit from this IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Software License Optimization Group Training

This program is built for the teams that own IT assets, software licenses, and technology spend. Cohorts may join from one function or across functions; content and labs adapt to each cohort's roles, estate, and experience, so every group practices the workflows it owns.

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Keep every asset tracked across its lifecycle

For teams running the CMDB and asset registers. The program sharpens discovery, lifecycle tracking, and data hygiene, so inventory becomes the trusted base for every audit and optimization decision.

Workflow friction

  • Incomplete or stale asset discovery data
  • Hardware and cloud assets tracked separately
  • License entitlements scattered across owners

How the program helps

  • Trusted single source of asset truth
  • Faster audit and renewal preparation
  • Cleaner data for optimization work

Practice use cases

  • Discovery labs
  • CMDB baselines
  • Lifecycle tracking
  • Asset reconciliation

Every cohort leaves with an optimization plan sized to its own estate.

Prerequisites: This program suits IT, asset management, procurement, and finance professionals who touch software spend. Familiarity with your organization's IT estate helps, but no prior ITAM experience is required. Content adapts to each cohort's tools, publishers, and cloud platforms, so beginners and experienced practitioners both leave with usable skills.

IT practitioner to ITAM owner

Each band maps to real module work: foundation concepts are taught live, intermediate skills are drilled in guided labs, and advanced ownership is proven in the capstone.

EntryExitNot covered
Skill / Topic
Discover and classify IT hardware and software assets
Read software entitlements and map them to deployments
Prepare for and respond to vendor license audits
Reharvest and right-size software licenses
Govern SaaS subscriptions and cloud cost allocation
Build and present an ITAM optimization business case

A single program that grows with IT careers, from asset basics to confident license optimization practice.

Different Teams, Locations, Time Zones, or Languages? We've Got You Covered.

Whether your teams are spread across countries, time zones, languages, or experience levels, we deliver tailored training programs that ensure a consistent learning experience across your global workforce.

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Certificate of Training Completion.

On successful completion, employees receive an Edstellar course completion certificate, recognizing their commitment to ongoing learning and professional development. It validates the skills they have built and motivates them to keep growing and contribute to organizational success.

Earned, not attended. Awarded on completion of all hands-on labs and the capstone project.

Edstellar certificate of completion

Training Delivery Modes: Onsite, Virtual and Hybrid

Choose the delivery format that fits your teams: onsite at your office, live virtual over Zoom or Teams, or hybrid. Every format is instructor-led and includes the same curriculum, labs, and capstone.

IT Asset Management (ITAM) & Software License Optimization Onsite Training

Delivered at your office with an instructor on site. Ideal for teams that want asset walkthroughs, estate reviews, and lab sessions run together in one room.

  • Instructor at your office for every session
  • Estate walkthroughs with your own asset data
  • Team lab sessions run together in one room
  • Scheduling set around your team's calendar

Need a Customized Training Format That Works for Your Team?

Our training delivery is customized to your team's schedule, full days, half days, sessions spread across weeks, or modular formats. Share your preferred timeline, and we'll plan the training around it.

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Where this Training Fits in Your Team's learning path.

IT asset management depends on working ITSM processes, since changes and incidents shape the asset record. Your team learns ITSM, manages assets and licenses, then extends control to endpoints with Intune and to cloud spend with FinOps.

Incident, Problem & Change Management (ITSM) Training

ITSM PROCESSES

Incident, Problem & Change Management (ITSM) Training

Define incident, problem and change processes that keep asset records accurate.

Instructor-led·On-site·Virtual
~ 22 Hours
IT Asset Management (ITAM) & Software License Optimization Training

MANAGE IT ASSETS

IT Asset Management (ITAM) & Software License Optimization Training

Track hardware and software assets and optimise licence use and renewals.

Instructor-led·On-site·Virtual
~ 24 Hours
Microsoft Intune & Modern Endpoint Management Training

MANAGE ENDPOINTS

Microsoft Intune & Modern Endpoint Management Training

Manage endpoints with Intune so device data feeds the asset register.

Instructor-led·On-site·Virtual
~ 26 Hours
Cloud FinOps Training

OPTIMISE CLOUD COST

Cloud FinOps Training

Apply licence optimisation thinking to cloud spend through FinOps.

Instructor-led·On-site·Virtual
~ 25 Hours

Why Choose Edstellar as Your IT Asset Management (ITAM) and Software License Optimization Training Provider

When comparing providers, Edstellar is the training partner teams choose for ITAM expertise and 5+ years of corporate training experience. Our methodology blends concise instruction with guided hands-on labs, so every concept is practiced before it is applied.

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5000+

EXPERT TRAINERS

5+

YEARS DELIVERING

200+

ORGANIZATIONS TRAINED

ISO 9001&27001

CERTIFIED

Tailored

Every cohort's labs, scenarios, and examples are tuned to your asset estate, license publishers, and platforms.

Proven Methodology

A structured assess, learn, practice, and apply journey builds ITAM capability in measurable, sequential stages.

Practice-Based Learning

Guided hands-on labs in every module turn audit, reharvesting, and governance skills into daily habit.

Expert Trainers

Practitioner instructors who run ITAM and license optimization in production lead every session.

Global Scale

Programs run across sites and time zones, with batches scheduled to fit each team's calendar.

Measurable Outcomes

Audit readiness and quantified license savings give you clear evidence of training impact.

Connect IT Asset Discovery With License Evidence and Optimization Decisions

Edstellar develops ITAM capability through estate discovery, entitlement reconciliation, and simulated audit work. Participants examine deployment and usage data, model true-up scenarios, and assess software reharvesting and SaaS governance. The final optimization plan connects findings with a quantified business case, reviewed for license reasoning, evidence quality, cost assumptions, and ongoing ownership.

  1. Step 01

    Consult

    We examine estate knowledge, asset and procurement responsibilities, and gaps in discovery, entitlements, or usage data to identify the cohort's license-management learning priorities.

  2. Step 02

    Plan

    We establish discovery and inventory baselines before entitlement interpretation and audit rehearsal, then connect reharvesting, savings modeling, and SaaS governance in the optimization plan.

  3. Step 03

    Align

    We align IT asset and licensing expertise with asset, vendor, finance, and cloud teams, confirming representative publisher records and suitable sample estate data.

  4. Step 04

    Customize

    We adapt entitlement, deployment, and SaaS usage cases to familiar technology estates, including ambiguous records and unused subscriptions that require evidence before proposing changes.

  5. Step 05

    Execute

    Participants reconcile license positions, assemble audit packs, model reharvesting, and allocate SaaS costs, receiving feedback on entitlement interpretation, calculation assumptions, and governance accountability.

  6. Step 06

    Evaluate

    We assess the optimization plan for reconciled asset evidence, defensible license positions, transparent savings estimates, and a practical governance rhythm for discovery, renewals, and usage review.

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IT Asset Management (ITAM) & Software License Optimization Training Packages & Pricing

Where L&D holds an annual budget, license packages price the whole year at once instead of raising a purchase order per workshop. Hours and licenses are pooled across teams, programs and locations, so unused capacity is not stranded in one department.

Starter

120

trainee licenses

64 hours of group training

Tailored for SMBs

Most chosen

Growth

320

trainee licenses

160 hours of group training

Ideal for growing SMBs

Enterprise

800

trainee licenses

400 hours of group training

Designed for large corporations

Custom

Unlimited

trainee licenses

Duration set by the rollout

Multi-region and multi-year

Training Packages & Pricing

Choose the training format that works for your team. Pricing is customized based on your requirements, cohort size, and delivery needs.

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