“Licence Dashboard™ offers a true one-stop-shop for licence management and reporting with no equals when it comes to its third party data feed capability.”
(FAST IiS Independent Licence Management Solution Review September 2009)
Licence Dashboard™ is Europe’s leading Software Licence Management tool, facilitating and driving more Software Asset Management (SAM) programmes than any other application on today’s market. Licence Dashboard is an essential tool for any organisation looking to hone its licence management process. Without it, managing software assets becomes an arduous and resource intensive task, one which suppresses the savings you could be making.
With its easy-to-use interface and built-in licence intelligence, you can manage the full lifecycle of your software, including maintaining comprehensive licence and software usage inventories and having the ability to verify your organisation’s compliance status at any time, with limited licensing knowledge.
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KEY FEATURES
Licence Inventory
A comprehensive repository for storing all licence evidence, incorporating purchase/agreement information, upgrade/maintenance management and licence types such as Device, Concurrency, Site, Processor and Client Access Licence.
Contract Inventory
The Contract Inventory ensures that all contract terms and conditions are logged and enables effective control of the associated software entitlement. This unique feature allows organisations to manage large contracts such as Microsoft Enterprise Agreements and enables easier maintenance of tasks such as true ups.
Built-In Licensing Intelligence
At the heart of Licence Dashboard is ‘licensing intelligence’. This unique functionality helps users make sense of the complex rules surrounding many volume licensing schemes such as concurrency, base and upgrade licences, downgrade rights etc. In addition, Licence Dashboard promotes automated aggregation and allocation of licence entitlement to software usage, thereby enabling true automated management of an organisation’s compliance status.
Licence Entitlement
Enables organisations to manage their licence entitlement and compliance status from a single reporting interface.
Software Usage
Allows users to import data directly from their software audit tools, facilitating the allocation of entitlement to software used. Administrators are then able to manage and control the organisation’s compliance, reporting over-licensing and shortfalls. In addition, the interface has a unique technique for managing product downgrade rights.
Data Cleanse
Licence Dashboard is able to Data Cleanse the vast majority of the discovery and audit tools on the market today. Data Cleanse enables organisations to extract usage data from existing discovery tools, extending the software recognition process to further distil the scanned software, highlighting which installed products need a licence. Without this, our experienced auditors find it impossible to decipher the output of most software audit tools. Licence Dashboard is able to Data Cleanse the vast majority of the audit tools on the market today.
No matter how many different inventory tools are in use in an organisation, Licence Dashboard can be configured to manage and report all the information in a single interface. This unique service enables organisations to leverage their existing technology investment to deliver an effective SAM programme - thus saving hundreds of thousands of pounds.
Mainframe/Midrange Support
Licence Dashboard is able to manage the Licence Entitlement and Compliance Status of Mainframe and Midrange platforms - this includes measuring licence metrics such as Value Units, MIPS and MSUs.
Compliance/Verification Reports
Licence Dashboard has built-in reports that enable organisations to continue reporting their licence entitlement and compliance status.
AVAILABLE PRODUCTS
Licence Dashboard Standard Edition
Created to meet the needs of small to medium-sized organisations with less than 500 seats, Licence Dashboard Standard Edition is ideal for a single business unit.
Licence Dashboard Professional Edition
Suitable for organisations with more than 500 seats, Licence Dashboard Professional Edition facilitates the apportionment of assets for numerous individual business units.
Licence Dashboard Enterprise Edition
For large multi-national, multi-site organisations with more than 5,000 seats, Licence Dashboard Enterprise Edition provides the facility to apportion assets for unlimited business units.
Licence Dashboard Small Business Edition
In one integrated, affordable solution, designed specifically for smaller organisations (less than 1000 seats), Licence Dashboard Small Business Edition delivers many of the features and benefits previously only available to large enterprises. Includes, Licence Dashboard, Dashboard Discovery, Best Practice Guide and Support.
Dashboard Discovery
Dashboard Discovery provides a comprehensive software and hardware inventory for Microsoft Windows-based networks.
SBL is pleased to announce that it is one of only three channel partners in the UK that can deliver Licence Dashboard.