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 | 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.
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 | 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! |
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 | Automatically manage compliance and cost ownershipEnsure 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.
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 | Combine central control with local administrationSnow 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.
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 | Manage all necessary licensesSnow License Managersupports all of the most commpnly used license forms and types, for example installations base, processor or core based, virtual and site licenses. |
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 | SAM process enforcerAll 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. |
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 | Manage any type of company assetSnow 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. |
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 | 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. |
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| Store physical licenses and agreementsA 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. |
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 | License upgrade backtrackingEasily trace upgrade path for upgraded applications to identify original license. |
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 | 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.
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| Register other types of agreements and licensesStore agreements for objects, support or services, and license proofs for applications not yet possible to inventory, such as Unix. |
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 | Subscribe to alerts using RSSBuilt 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. |
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 | 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. |
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| Trouble shooting has never been easierSnow License Manager automatically saves detailed information about changes to help facilitate error diagnosis. Use Snow License Manager Action Log to quickly identify errors, when they occurred and who or what caused them. You can also contact Snow directly through the web consolewith support questions or other feedback.
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 | 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.
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 | Flexible and powerful report engineSnow 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.
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 | Automatic organisation managementReduce 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.
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 | Support for multiple languages and currenciesRegister 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.
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 | Based on the latest Microsoft TechnologySnow 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. |
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 | Unlimited number of custom fieldsAdd 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. |
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