Snow License Manager 2011

Take control of your licenses and software costs with Snow License Manager 2011

Snow License Manager is an advanced and user-friendly SAM solution which provides you with the ability to significantly reduce licensing expenditure whilst mitigating compliance risk. The solution provides true software metering across all applications within the estate, allowing you to view what software is actually used and make more informed licensing decisions based on the most trustworthy data.

Snow License Manager automatically reconciles software licenses and agreements against deployments across the organisation, providing you with the ability to optimise the infrastructure depending on business requirements. License Manager provides you with the ability to manage the complete life-cycle of both your hardware and software assets from purchase, to registration, to installation and usage analysis right the way through to retirement. Snow will automatically re-harvest unused licenses and allow you to license your environment in the most cost-effective way.


Improve your internal SAM-processes and create local incentives for cost savings by decentralising the license registration and administration without losing central control.

 

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Highlights in Snow License Manager 2011

Read more about all key features in Snow License Manager 2011

 

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. Snow License Manager can also use information from your existing inventory tool, for example Microsoft SMS/SCCM, Frontrange or Altiris, maximising the benefits of your investment while providing a full SAM solution.

 

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.

 

Manage your business critical datacenter and cluster

For the majority of organisations an increasing part of the software spend is within the datacenter and the associated software. 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.

 

Control licenses in your virtual world

The increasing number of virtual technologies makes license management more complex. 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. Make sure that all the practical benefits of virtualization are an advantage within your license management initiative.
Graphic statistics shows concurrent usage.
Graphic statistics shows concurrent usage.
Allocate licenses and license costs on organisation nodes.
Allocate licenses and license costs on organisation nodes.
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