I'll make this as simple as possible. 1) Make sure you understand what exactly its is you need and how it relates to your core business. 2) Leased services and SaaS have their place but not for core business needs. Most commonly you are nothing more than a cash cow to a company that is now in control of your resources. 3) Build relationships. My best experiences have been with Dell, Time Warner Telecom, and Barracuda Networks. 4) If you have a mobile workforce then go laptops. 5) Sounds like 1 Server running ESXi and a NAS would suit you nicely.

This is by far the wisest route on the issue. I would just add that you "could" notify your legal department of it and leave it to them to handle. It is their responsbility to deal with legal issues of all kinds. For your part you just need to make a reasonable attempt to resolve the situation through your appropriate chain of command. If they arean't interested document your findings and move on.

If you bring this up and the BSA comes callign when managment doesn't act your almost garanteed to experiance some kind of retaliation.

As someone who works with Asset software i garantee the effort of cleaning up your asset's and tracking everything is well worth it. You could always pitch the cost savings of such a system by reducing waste and overpurchasing.