New key features in Snow License Manager makes license management easier and more effective

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Automated system intelligence to manage up and down grades

Automated upgrade and downgrade intelligence

Snow License Manager automatically calculates your compliance with consideration of your license maintenance program. The system maximises return on investment by intelligently using available licenses on the most expensive version of the software. You can easily trace upgrade path for applications to identify the original license.

Save money with license pools

Snow License Manager automatically re-harvests unused or not installed licenses and creates a license pool for cost saving purposes. Easily manage one global or multiple local license pools for all or parts of your software in all or parts of your organisation. Make sure you never buy an unnecessary license again!

Allocate licenses on different organisation nodes to manage internal ownership and compliance

Automatically manage compliance and cost ownership

Ensure legal compliance and allocate software costs internally with Snow License Manager. Automatically allocate licenses to organizations nodes based on actual installations for up to date internal cost control and management, and actively respond to compliance issues.

Combine central control with local administration

Snow License Manager enables central control over compliance with local license administration. Easily create local SAM owners with limited user rights and restrictions to only access information about their organisation node. Ensure users do not waste time looking for relevant content by filtering out all relevant applications.

Full integration with existing business processes and systems

Snow License Management offers an open SDK, fully automated and compatible with any business system e.g. ERP, CMDB, service desk and system management tools. Incorporate Snow's unique data with existing strategic information and processes contributes to a more accurate business decision.

Manage your business critical datacenter and cluster

Snow License Manager includes extensive functionality to enable users to manage their datacenter and cluster configurations, whilst also attaching servers and applications to the datacenter/cluster (DCC) registrations. You can then add license purchases on the DCC level with several new license types, ranging from processor based types to types based on peak count of virtual machines.

Optimize your Oracle investments

Snow License Manager manages your Oracle databases on platforms such as Sun Solaris, HP-UX and IBM AIX. Keep track on server hardware and configuration, database options, management pack usage, virtual instances and named users.

Control licenses in your virtual world

Today you need to manage your use of licenses across a variety of platforms such as Terminal Servers, Application virtualization, server virtualization, all with different dependencies on your license optimization and compliance. Snow License Manager solves these issues by supporting a number of virtualizations solutions such as App-V, hyper-v, VMware, Citrix, Terminal servers.

SAM process enforcer

All processes and routines are dependent on all participants learning, understanding and following instructions and policies. Snow License Manager adapts the internal process and then instructs and helps administrators to comply on a daily basis.

Control the license registration by making specific fields required, creating drop down lists and much more. Snow License Manager allows easy identification of breaches in the process. The system uses ISO 19770 naming convention.

Manage any type of company asset

Snow License Manager's flexible Object Manager will facilitate the management of any company asset. Create custom object types such as monitor or projectors and assign properties depending on object type. Assign objects to agreements for a full fledged asset management.

Manage named users

Snow License Manager alerts you when someone without correct permission uses an application, making it easy for you to remove unwanted installations, avoid potential threats to the legal compliance and enforce your IT-policy.

Store physical licenses and agreements

A license is a legal agreement between the user and the software owner, just accepting the digital user terms and conditions during the installation is not enough. Most software vendors require a copy of all physical license proofs and certificates in case of an audit.

Snow License Manager allows you to upload and store all relevant information centrally. Keep track of your own compliance with reports and get immediate alerts if licenses lack vital information.

License upgrade backtracking

Easily trace upgrade path for upgraded applications to identify original license.

SKU repository with license intelligence

Integrated SKU repository with advanced license intelligence that helps users with the registration and import of license purchase records.

Monitor compliance trends

Daily Compliance History allows you to monitor compliance trends in your organisation based on historical data. Use this information to plan purchases and predict future license needs.

Subscribe to alerts using RSS

Built in RSS feeds allows you to subscribe to alerts, ensuring you are always updated about urgent matters regardless how often you log on to Snow License Manager.

Monitor unwanted software

Specify unwanted applications in the Blacklist. Applications can be specified by function, such as games or file sharing clients, without having to know each application's specific name. Snow License Manager immediately alerts you when unwanted applications as specified in the Black list are installed and used, thereby helping you to enforce your IT policy and ensuring a healthy and efficient IT environment.

Automated end of life computer management

Automated end of life management

Set up a fully automatic process to manage computers at the end of their life cycle. Automatically move computers no longer submitting inventory data to Quarantine status. Determine the time limit for your computer to stay in Quarantine before they are automatically removed or manually define and manage inactivated computers.

You can also archive computers, which saves all information about the computer before it is removed from the system. Use the archived information as base for hardware or software purchases.

Flexible and powerful report engine

Snow License Manager is delivered with a range of predefined reports which you can adjust, filter and customize to your specific need. You can also create entirely customizerd reports using the powerful and flexbile report engine in Snow License Manager.

Automatic organisation management

Reduce manual organisation administration by automatically connecting users and computers to organisation nodes based on specified IP range, host name, serial number or Inventory ID. You can even automatically attach users to the same node as the computer they used last belongs to.

Support for multiple languages and currencies

Register licenses in local currencies while maintaining financial reports and follow ups in your organisation’s main currency. Snow License Manager's web user interface is available in multiple languages.

Built on the latest Microsoft technology

Based on the latest Microsoft Technology

Snow Software relies on a close partnership with Microsoft and other software vendors to ensure our systems are delivering the best possible value. Snow License Manager is based on the latest Microsoft technology such as .Net 3.5, SQL Server 2008 and 64 bit OS to guarantee maximum performance and an optimal user experience.

Unlimited number of custom fields

Add custom fields for user and computer information not possible to inventory such as location, contact details and phone number. Snow License Manager has no maximum limit for number of custom fields – add as many as you need.