Licence Dashboard 4.5

With its easy-to-use interface and advanced automation, you can now manage the full lifecycle of your software without the need for expert licensing knowledge. Licence Dashboard provides a single-console solution for managing software inventories, usage reporting, licence capture and reconciliation. With its built-in licensing intelligence, Licence Dashboard will automatically put your organisation in the most advantageous compliance position and accurately pinpoint any licence shortfalls.

Whether as a seasoned SAM professional or newcomer to software licence management, Licence Dashboard delivers a rapid return on investment by helping you identify opportunities to optimize asset utilization, reduce software spend, eliminate compliance issues and negotiate future licence agreements from a position of strength.

FEATURES

Licence & Contract Inventory

The foundation of any good Software Asset Management program is to keep a single repository of accurate and up-to-date software licence information, together with processes for controlling and maintaining its accuracy. The Licence and Contract Inventory in Licence Dashboard enables you to record and track all licence evidence, including characteristics such as licence model, metrics, constraints and purchase history.

Licence Entitlement

Using the built-in advanced licence intelligence, Licence Dashboard automatically aggregates an organisation’s installation rights and continually maintains and tracks licence entitlement tasks such as availability, on order and renewals.

Licence Dashboard enables IT teams to easily manage software entitlements across multiple geographical areas or legal entities and provides the ability to publish entitlement across multiple purchasing centers without infringing the terms of individual licence agreements.

Data Cleanse & Software Usage

Licence Dashboard offers integration options to over 150 third-party software discovery tools such as Microsoft SCCM, Symantec Altiris, HP AssetCenter, IBM Tivoli or FrontRange/Centennial Discovery.

Most of these software inventory tools are excellent at scanning the network for hardware and software information, however manipulating this software information into a format that enables you to identify your licensable products can become a nightmare. Licence Dashboard’s Data Cleanse feature removes the headache of manual data manipulation and automatically transforms the data from your chosen inventory solution into a format that is effective for licence management. This inventory can then be reconciled against the captured licence records.

Verification & Compliance

Licence Dashboard automatically allocates licence entitlement to software usage. In addition, where usage information is difficult to consolidate by using traditional discovery tools, Licence Dashboard provides additional advanced management capabilities for monitoring systems such as Oracle, Citrix, midrange applications and mainframe systems.

Reports

From a single interface, the organization can report its compliance status across the corporate network, providing instant access to reports on available entitlements, current installations and where there is the opportunity to re-harvest software or the need to address compliance failures.

The advanced reporting interface allows you to customize your own reports and publish specialised reports required by software manufacturers, as well as third-party auditors such as FAST and the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

FIND OUT MORE

Licence Dashboard is available in a variety of versions, to suit organizations of all sizes. For further information, please contact the Licence Dashboard Team:

+44 845 265 1217 / info@licencedashboard.co.uk