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.
In the 2010s federal welfare spending declined off a peak of 3.36 percent GDP in 2010 (including 0.96 percent GDP transferred to states) to an estimated 2.1 percent GDP in 2015 (including 0.72 percent GDP transferred to states) and a projected 1.9 percent GDP by 2020.