Why License Manager? Key Facts & Benefits

So, why is License Dashboard License Manager right for your organization? Here are some of the key features and benefits that will ensure License Manager both saves you money and reduces your software licensing risks:

Optimizing Licenses

Re-harvesting unused licenses – License Manager gives you the tools you need to identify unused or under-used software licenses, re-pooling them for re-distribution and saving the cost of purchasing unnecessary duplicate licenses. Licenses can be aggregated centrally for re-deployment across different business units or territories.

Automatic upgrade & downgrade rights management – License Manager automatically applies upgrades and downgrades where appropriate under your licensing agreements, delivering substantial savings over new license purchases.

Manage the entire estate – License Manager is designed not only for Windows desktop and server licensing, but for all major platforms and software vendors, including mid-range servers, Oracle, IBM and more.

Manage contracts & agreements – License Manager doesn’t just manage entitlements, it also enables you to actively track, plan and budget for all types of IT-related contracts, from Support & Maintenance through to lease agreements and volume licensing true-up dates.

Advanced reporting – License Manager offers both intuitive management dashboards and in-depth reporting functions, allowing authorized staff to quickly view critical information around licenses, installs and usage.

Managing Virtual Environments - Integrating with inventory solutions such Microsoft SCCM and Centrix Workspace, License Manager can manage platforms such as Terminal Services, Servers, Application Virtualization and Server Virtualization, including solutions such as App-V, Hyper-V, VMware and Citrix.

Automatic end-of-life harvesting - License Manager ensures that any licenses consumed by a device that has been decommissioned are automatically released and put back in the license pool ready for re-allocation.

Minimizing Risk

Create an Effective Licensing Position (ELP) – no solution can create an ELP statement faster than License Manager. The multi-source inventory and license entitlement import and cleanse options dramatically accelerate the data collection and reconciliation process, removing up to 80% of the administrative overhead.

Automatic ‘best-fit’ reconciliation – License Manager’s comprehensive built-in intelligence around licensing rules means it will always aim to put the organization in the most advantageous licensing position possible, automatically minimizing compliance risks.

Maintain full audit & ‘paper’ trails – License Manager creates a full audit trail for license management, automatically recording all administrator actions. Proofs of license entitlement can be stored electronically and linked to the appropriate records within License Manager.

Fitting the Way your Organization Works

Integration with existing IT Asset Management, IT Service Management & CMDB solutions – License Dashboard offers connectors to over 30 inventory solutions, including Microsoft SCCM, Altiris 6 & 7, LANDesk and FrontRange Discovery (and many more). Information from License Manager can also be made available in your chosen ITSM solution or easily imported into your CMDB, further increasing your ROI on these existing investments.

Supporting unlimited Business Units and complex organizational structures – License Manager is designed to let you manage software and licenses the way you want to, with a highly flexible and extensible Business Unit structure that can be as simple or complex as you need it to be.

Assign and manage compliance responsibilities & license ownership – License Manager enables organizations to assign licenses to specific levels within the organizational structure, making it easy to determine ‘ownership’ of licenses without compromising the overall ELP/compliance position.

To learn more about License Dashboard License Manager, request an evaluation today.