This document summarizes a webinar presentation about LANDesk Client Management Solutions software license asset management capabilities. The presentation covers new features like content normalization, dynamic groups, and VDI licensing. It demonstrates how the software can analyze software usage, compare licenses to installations, identify unused licenses, and enable automated license reclamation to save organizations up to 40% of software budgets. The goal is to help organizations effectively manage their software licenses and assets.
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Reduce the Cost of Your Software Licenses Across Your Business
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Software License Asset Management Demo
Presented By:
Mark Bastin
West Area System Engineer
Welcome to our Webinar
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1 WHAT’S NEW?
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3 QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS
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Want to save big money?
20% of enterprise IT budgets are spent on
software licenses and maintenance.
60% of organizations over-license their software
30-40% - Effective software asset management
could save your organization in operating
expenses
Agenda
NOTE
5 minutes
30-40 minutes
5 minutes
DEMONSTRATION
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• Static Groups
– Add the
products
selectively
• Dynamic
Groups
– Use wildcards
to find all
products
Product Normalization and Groups
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• User configurable Runtime files
– Calculate usage based on the exe that matter (distiller.exe
not reader.exe)
Runtime Usage
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• Based on a LANDesk Query or Files
• Web Product Monitor SaaS applications (URL)
Custom Products
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• Know what you have, where you got it from
• Purchase date, expiration, what you paid for it
Licenses
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• License can have multiple products associated
– Licenses are processed in the order listed
Product to License association
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Data Analytics - data from Inventory scan
Normalized
Data
EULA
Aware
Licensed
Software
Add Remove
Programs
Benefit -
Turns 1000’s of
software titles to less
than 100 in most cases
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• Manufacturer Name
• Software Title
Benefits
• Data fixed at scan time
• If wanting to move data
to other DB or use
reporting in 32 console
Data Analytics Normalization
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• Uses all raw data , normalized or not
and only worries about “licensable
software”
• Compare it to an accountant that
knows all the tax codes, EULA
Analytics gives credits for multiple
versions , bundles or suites.
• Results in software list per machine
under “licensed software “tab
EULA Analytics
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• Analyzes the software's
Downgrade rights
• Standard MSRP cost used and
is adjustable based on your
costs
• Data is sent to SLM as
CONTENT
EULA Analytics – Downgrade rights
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• Takes all “licensed software data” results and moves into SLM as content
Data Analytics is a SLM content provider
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• Connector to Microsoft Volume Licensing and Adobe cloud to dynamic
pull in the effective licenses quantities directly into SLM
Data Analytics software B2B connectors
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• Normalized
software title list
• Global Groups
• EULA analytics
results
“Installations”
• Total licenses
“Effective license
quantities”
• Software Usage
under “+” and “-”
End Game – The compliance report
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Next Step -RECLAMATIONLANDesk Software
License Asset Management
• Data Analytics
• B2B connectors
• EULA management
• Software License Management
• Monitoring
• Automated Reclamation
• Tracks the quantity of licenses purchased
• Tracks the quantity installed
• Tracks the usage of the licenses
• Determines unused licenses
• Policy based license reclaiming
• Threshold based limits
• Automatic vs. Manual
License Monitoring
License Reclamation
Configure multiple source attributes to single attributes. Even apply validation rules to the data map to only get the data you wantExample: A computer model Number may or may not exist in multiple fields and what data does exist may vary. Apply data validations and map it to a single field for consistency
License monitoring tracks the quantity of licenses owned, compares it with what is installed and takes action when the count of available licenses drops below a defined threshold.License reclamation permits IT to identify assigned but unused licenses and launch email campaigns to reclaim them from the user community