Software License Management
Whether you are provisioning and managing software licenses as part of a comprehensive seat or desktop management project, or performing software license management as a separate service, your IT department must be able to accurately track and reconcile the deployment of authorized licenses with the actual installed configurations.
Provance Software License Management capabilities help eliminate software overbuys, avoid license compliance penalties, and optimize version deployment - thus avoiding unnecessary version upgrades.
Easy software agreement tracking
Your Challenge: Provide easy access to ongoing license terms and conditions, and quickly determine whether you are in compliance with your software licenses.
Provance Solution: Provance lets you track what you are licensed
for and what is installed - all in the same repository. These capabilities
help improve employee productivity and adherence to compliance. You can
use discovery tools to identify the actual software installed in the IT
environment, and compare this information to authorized software licenses
for compliancy reporting. Analyze deployed seats and assets to understand
the requirements of software upgrades and license renewals. Reduce risk
of compliancy penalties. Ensure that only applications in use are renewed.
Minimize the planning effort for rollouts and upgrades.
Quickly identify the number of licenses permitted for a software application and the expiry date of each license
Your Challenge: Provide real-time access to license information.
Provance Solution: With Provance, you can quickly identify the number and type of licenses permitted for an application. You can also identify any expiry dates for licenses, and set automatic reminders for renewals. This reduces software compliance issues and lets you easily calculate the number of applications licensed for an organization. Avoid renewal or compliancy penalties.
Allocate licenses to organizations or individual assets
Your Challenge: Track how you are consuming licenses throughout the organization.
Provance Solution: With Provance, you can use allocations to identify license use within the organization. This allows you to properly charge organizations for license usage, and avoid software non-compliance by properly allocating usage by organization and asset. You can easily report on where software is allocated for renewal, upgrade, and roll-out purposes.
MAC management and surplus license management
Your Challenge: Manage software MACs (moves, adds, changes).
Provance Solution: Using the asset allocation concept, Provance
makes it easy to move, add, or change software when hardware is installed,
re-assigned, moved or disposed of. You can easily identify and re-allocate
surplus licenses, and you know where your licenses are and what their status
is - allowing you to maximize license use and minimize unnecessary renewals
and purchases. Provance records a full, auditable history to help you understand
the life cycle changes of a license.
Software license costs tracking
Your Challenge: Track license costs.
Provance Solution: With Provance, you can track all costs related to purchases, renewals, maintenance, and support. This costing information is invaluable for vendor negotiations, software use optimization and financial forecasting.
Track maintenance contracts for application licenses
Your Challenge: Ensure you are getting the most value from your maintenance contracts.
Provance Solution: With Provance, you can make support information readily available to users, managers, field technicians and help desk staff. They can stay on top of maintenance contracts and understand the relationships between a contract and its corresponding software license.