“This unique product enables organisations to comprehensively manage an effective Software Asset Management programme. At Microsoft we look at ways in which we can help our customers achieve ongoing Software Asset Management processes and provide long term benefits from being compliant. Licence Dashboard enables you to achieve that and we fully support the Phoenix programme."

Amanda Sleight, Head of Licensing, Microsoft UK

Licence Dashboard™ has now become the leading Software Licence Management tool within the UK, facilitating and driving more Software Asset Management programmes than any other application on today’s market.

With its easy-to-use interface and built-in licence intelligence, now you can manage the full lifecycle of your software, including maintaining comprehensive licence and software usage inventories and having the ability to verify your organisation’s compliance status at any time, with limited licensing knowledge.

Either as a new or existing user of Licence Dashboard, you will quickly recognise the significant benefits that can be achieved by using this unique product. From reducing software spend to eliminating illegal exposure, Licence Dashboard is an essential component that every organisation will need when controlling its compliance status.

“Licence Management tools are potentially one of the most important tools in a Software Asset Management implementation.”

 ITIL Software Asset Management Best Practice Publication

Key features include:

Licence & Contract Inventory
The basis of any good Software Asset Management programme is to keep accurate and up-to-date software licence information, together with processes for controlling and maintaining its accuracy. The Licence and
Contract Inventory enables you to record and track all licence evidence including characteristics such as licence model, metric, constraint and purchase history.

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

In addition, it effectively manages software entitlement across multiple geographical areas or legal entities and has the ability to publish entitlement across multiple purchasing centres without infringing the contractual agreements specified.

Data Cleanse & Software Usage
Licence Dashboard interfaces with over 150 different software discovery tools such as Microsoft SCCM, Symantec Altiris, HP AssetCenter, IBM Tivoli or 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, however, extends the software recognition process and then further distils the scanned software, highlighting the associated licence liability of all installed products.

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 advanced management capabilities for monitoring systems such as Oracle, Citrix, Midrange applications and Mainframe systems.

Reports
From a single interface, an organisation can report its compliance status, highlighting what the organisation is entitled to install, how many times it has been installed or used, how many licences are still available and which software is non-compliant or over-licensed.

In addition, the advanced reporting interface allows you to customise your own reports and publish specialised reports required by manufacturers, FAST and BSA.

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