Imagine the situation: your company is constantly developing, the number of the employees and computers constantly increase and you become rather busy keeping in mind all that companies needs. At this point it is rather simple to lose control over some processes at your company, and specifically over the number of software installations in the local network...
One day you might discover that you are not aware of the number of licenses used and feel that you might have exceeded the amount of allowed registered installations. Or you may need to add a new working place and at this point the last thing you would like to happen to yourself is having a visit from external audit organization.
Even though you try to manually control and track that the installed software is not only up-to-date but also that the registration is in compliance with the purchased licenses, you will try to find an effective and automated license management tool.
To make the things worse, there is no specific standards set for either software developing companies to license the software or for the companies who seek to keep track of the licenses. Not only different software vendors use different types/names of licenses, some deliver the bundles of products, but also the registration information is saved to where no one will find it.
The use of Network Inventory Advisor, automated license management system, helps the company to effectively monitor the software installed and registered on all every networked assets. This is implemented due to the following functions:
- scanning your IT environment;
- finding all the installed applications (including manufacturer name and version);
- counting the number of installed licenses of each version;
- matching up all those installations to the licenses you've purchased;
note: the customizable field to add comments for each listed item (key, version type, purchase date, price etc.)
- showing the current license state;
- generating reports.
There is a number of ways in which the company can benefit by incorporating our license management solution. Not only you save the money by automating the monitoring processes, but also you get to a completely new level of controlling the software deployment for your business.
Consider the following additional benefits which a Network Inventory Advisor can bring:
- lowering the chances of being fined by software audit;
- increasing the effectiveness of the purchased licenses usage;
- prevent excessive licenses purchases;
- improving the software licensing procedures;
- better control over software assets costs and usage;
- getting the overall picture of software installations and registration in the company.
The last but not the least is the fact that recently more and more companies understand the importance of following the software asset management standards.
