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Snow License Manager

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What is Snow License Manager?

Snow Software automatically calculates compliance positions, even for complex data center titles which may be virtual or physical. Snow is used to track license entitlements against usage in public cloud platforms to reduce audit risk. Snow License Manager can also help determine an organization's effective license position, and displays technology assets, entitlements and agreements, to support audit preparedness.

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Snow License Manager, a must-have for license management!

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Verified User
Engineer in Information Technology (501-1000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Snow License Manager to monitor our license positions and keep track of obsolete licenses, to search for hardware specifications, to see who is using which hardware and how often applications are being used. It is a major tool for us to discuss the used licenses and the need for end users to use specific licenses.

Pros

  • Monitor used software
  • Discover used hardware
  • Report license compliancy

Cons

  • Building OS agents via Snow License Manager instead of requesting them via support
  • Detecting roaming licenses from for instance Flexera

Most Important Features

  • License compliance reporting
  • Software detection
  • Hardware detection
  • User detection

Return on Investment

  • It helped us get de actual needed licenses visible, helping costs decrease
  • It helped us reporting our license position to software manufacturers

Usability

Other Software Used

Ivanti Automation, VMware vCenter, PRTG Network Monitor, Veeam Data Cloud for Microsoft 365, HelloID

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Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Snow License Manager (SLM) is used as a tool in our Software Asset Management function. It allows us to obtain a compliance position, and report on licenses, installations and users of software on end-user devices and servers. The license intelligence applied with this solution saves great deal of time when handling applications and their licenses, as the correct metrics will nearly always be automatically selected for a specific product. SLM has a wealth of reports that we regularly use, it's also a useful tool for audit against our CMDB, to confirm hardware configurations.

Pros

  • Reporting
  • Compliance
  • Visibility

Cons

  • Automation for assignment of Microsoft server licences
  • Organisational structure tool
  • Power BI front-end to allow reporting for non-Snow users (snr Management)

Most Important Features

  • Compliance
  • Licence management
  • Reporting on software installation
  • Reporting on software usage
  • Reporting on legacy/out of support software

Return on Investment

  • Vision of our licence position - you don't know what you don't know.
  • Optimising our licence position to be right-sized.
  • Assisting with software audits; allowing us to work with vendors and provide accurate licence positions quickly from a recognised source.

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365, Microsoft To Do, Apple iCloud, BMC Helix Discovery, BMC Helix ITSM, SAP Ariba, Atlassian Confluence, Jira Service Management

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Incentivized
Verified User
Manager in Information Technology (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

Snow Licence Manager supports our business in organising and planning our Support and Agreement Contracts, Inventory Management and Licence Compliance.

Pros

  • Centralises all our software contracts into one place
  • Provides insights into potential cost savings for our deployed software via metering data
  • Provides licence tracking for managing vendor true-ups

Cons

  • Agent performance dedicated tab
  • Error log which alerts you directly within SLA rather than going to server logs

Most Important Features

  • Inventory Management
  • Software Metering
  • Agreement 30/60/90 alerts

Return on Investment

  • Time and efficiency for managing applications

Usability

Other Software Used

Snow Atlas

Snow License Manger is a great tool for license management

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Christian Brandt OlsenView profile
Teamlead in Legal at Danish TAX (10,001+ employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use SNOW to keep track of our users in our SAP system. It gives us an easy overview

Pros

  • Great overview
  • Easy to use
  • Easy Tracking
  • Great reports

Cons

  • Make a scheduleemail of dashboards
  • Keeping screen layout, when restart
  • Errors while creating reports
  • Integration with other systems,

Most Important Features

  • Creating overview
  • Managing Licenses
  • Easy and Simple to use

Return on Investment

  • Easy tool to follow and manage licenses allocation

Usability

Alternatives Considered

SAP Business Rules Management

Other Software Used

Kofax Power PDF

Snow License Manager on hospitality works

Incentivized
Arnold den Heijer
License & Contractmanager in Information Technology at Stichting Medisch Centrum Haaglanden (5001-10,000 employees employees)

Use Cases and Deployment Scope

We use Snow License Manager for compliancy check on software licenses. Snow License Manager is also used by the IT engineers for information about the usage of software product with the hospital. Snow License Manager give us a " live" view of al servers and clients useds within the hospital, thsi information is used in IT asset management and lifecycle of the hardware items.

Pros

  • Software uses an type of vendors
  • Information gathering about the hardware
  • Very usefull reports
  • Easy to extend the data from external sources

Cons

  • Keeping screen layout, colums selection on user account base.
  • Better hardware reports of the devices, like monitor uses
  • Putting more information (manual import) on not inventoried devices

Most Important Features

  • License monitoring
  • Software Uses
  • CMDB for hardware items

Return on Investment

  • Not monitored, is not of any importance at this point. Be in control is key.

Usability

Other Software Used

Microsoft 365

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