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An organization\'s recent internal audit of its software asset management practices revealed a substantial variance between its recorded software entitlements and the actual deployed software instances across its global operations. The audit report highlighted that the current reconciliation process, which primarily relies on a basic inventory scan and a comparison against purchase orders, is failing to account for complex license metrics, specific contractual clauses, and variations in deployment configurations. This has led to a persistent state of uncertainty regarding the organization\'s true license compliance and potential financial exposure. Considering the principles outlined in ISO 19770-1:2017, which strategic adjustment would most effectively address this fundamental challenge and improve the accuracy of the SAM program\'s reconciliation capabilities?
Implement a comprehensive entitlement management framework that integrates with the discovery tools to ensure all license terms and conditions are accurately mapped to deployed software, thereby enabling a more granular and precise reconciliation.
Conduct a one-time, intensive data cleansing exercise on all existing purchase records and deployment logs to rectify historical inaccuracies, assuming this will resolve the ongoing reconciliation issues.
Focus solely on increasing the frequency of automated inventory scans to capture more real-time deployment data, without altering the underlying reconciliation logic or entitlement data management.
Negotiate new, simplified software license agreements with key vendors to reduce the complexity of reconciliation, even if it means potentially paying higher unit costs for software.

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