License Management

What is License Management ?

With LOGINventory's License Management license management,  you can manage all licenses relevant to software, operating systems, and access licenses (CALs). With LOGINventory software license management, you, as a license officer or CIO, can establish a license management process in your company that provides all the resources you need to manage your license portfolio. Based on in license management software, you can introduce a software asset management (SAM) process in your company according to the specifications of major software manufacturers such as Microsoft or Adobe.

The goal  of License Management is to help you gain full transparency about license users, existing and missing licenses, and actual use of the software. By doing so, we move forward in an objective/real comparison and ensure that you have all the information you need to constantly approach the ideal license and actively contribute to the business success of your company.

Based on the complete inventory of your network, license management software provides automated assessments so you can immediately see where there is sublicensing or overlicensing. You will also be automatically notified when there are no longer enough licenses and can have compliance reports generated for audits.

Mapping all common metrics for software license management

To ensure that all license consumers display correctly in license management, you must first take an inventory of all devices on the network.   License Management automatically detects which software packages and operating systems (physical and virtual) are available where. License management software supports a wide range of license metrics so that license consumption is calculated correctly (or license types). For example, a distinction can be made between whether the product to be managed is licensed per device, per user, per group membership, or per host. In addition, consumption calculation formulas can be stored in license management, which is required, for example, to map Windows Server licensing, which depends on the number of host cores or CPUs. Of course, irrelevant systems, such as test environments, can also be deleted.

Storage of software licenses and contracts, operating systems, CALs.

For each product that you add to license management, you can enter the number of licenses for your company. Several types of licenses can be stored for this purpose, such as pool licenses, device licenses, OEM licenses (they are automatically recognized), user licenses, subscription licenses, or maintenance licenses. For all licenses, additional details such as expiration date, end date, purchase price, annual costs, license manager, and freely definable fields can be stored. In addition, agreement or license documents can be linked so that you can manage all the important information about your licenses in one place.

With this license management data , numerousvaluations are automatically made available to you in the form of queries and reports. Of course, you can adapt these assessments yourself. So you see, for example, it has been attributed to consumers not committing that licenses that license fees are expected for next year, or that contracts when eliminated or terminated should be.

License inventory optimization by evaluating software usage

To optimize the license portfolio, you need to create transparency about the actual use of software licenses.  License Management is the license management solution that can be used to evaluate which user used which product on which devices. By taking inventory of this usage data, all data protection requirements are met. With LOGINventory's license management you can identify unused products and thus determine actual demand – not just based on facilities. These savings with unused software, you should not neglect!

Cloud subscription license management

With LOGINventory, you not only register which devices use which licenses on your network, but you can also read online what subscriptions or subscriptions have been made to the software. To do this, it reads how many licenses of what type you have available, which user has which licenses have been assigned, when the corresponding licenses expire, and other provider-specific values. Supported platforms include all Microsoft365 subscriptions, such as Office365, PowerBI Pro, Dynamics 365, Microsoft Intune. The list of providers is constantly expanding.

Automation of the license management process

License Management  is the  license management software that is equipped with many features to keep the time required for the operation, maintenance and audit preparation within acceptable limits. Preparation days for proof of compliance are a thing of the past as you can quickly and easily document the status of your license throughout the year with the help of the reports provided. With the help of tasks, you can send or store reports automatically. Or you may be notified by email when sublicensing occurs, new unused software is discovered, or unwanted software packages are recorded in the inventory. In addition, Microsoft Windows OEM licenses are recognized and created automatically.

Overall, the SAM solution provides all the functions you need to manage and document your license inventory in a simple and clear way.

System Requirements:

CPU: 1.8 GHz dual core processor

RAM: 2 GB

HDD/SSD: 50 GB of free space on main drive

Operating system: Microsoft Windows 8 32-bit, Microsoft Windows 7 32-bit, and Microsoft Windows Vista 32-bit

Resolution: 1024×768

Supported Operating Systems

Mac OS X 10.5x (Leopard), Mac OS X 10.6 (Snow Leopard), Mac OS X 10.7 (Lion), Mac OS X 10.7 (Mountain Lion), OS X 10.9 (Mavericks), and Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

Hardware requirements

Memory - 1 GB RAM and more

Free disk space - 50 MB

System type - 32-bit and 64-bit OS