A successful software asset management (SAM) system can. help organizations inventory and assess the state of installed. software across their IT systems, providing accurate, timely. information about the current state of the software installed, authorized and used on the computing devices that access.
In 2015, U.S. defense spending will be about $600 billion, or about 3.24 percent of GDP. The former figure would strike many Americans as sufficient, and a few would find it excessive.
Economic and foreign policy experts say they will keep spending, in percentage, far less than the U.S. on their militaries. From 1990 to 1994, as the Soviet Union collapsed, the European members of NATO spent an average of 2.7 percent of their gross domestic product on defense. Last year, that percentage had dropped to 1.6 percent, compared to 4.4 percent in the U.S.