#1 most frequent
United States of America
34.2%25 installations of 73
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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Who Buys & Uses Snow License Manager
#2 most frequent
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
17.8%13 installations of 73
#3 most frequent
Germany
8.2%6 installations of 73
Snow License Manager, a must-have for license management!
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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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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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
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
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
