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A full enterprise wide hardware and software asset inventory provides the essential “evidence” agencies use to detect unlicensed and/or unauthorized IT assets
Organizations need visibility and control of the hardware and software assets deployed in their environments. Discovery and inventory are the key first steps to gaining that visibility. The next step is to analyze and normalize the raw inventory data to identify the publishers, titles, versions and editions of software installed on each device. This normalized inventory data is the foundation for a number of business processes, including— software asset management and license compliance (IT Operations), software vulnerability management (Security), and IT service management. There are many business benefits that come from having normalized inventory, such as—identification of unauthorized software in the environment which could pose a security risk, rationalization and consolidation of the software portfolio to reduce management and support costs, and more.
Attend this webinar to hear about:
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1. Enabling your end users by allowing users to work on the device(s) of their choice and providing consistent access to corporate resources from those devices.
2. Helping protect your data by protecting corporate information and managing risk.
3. Unifying your environment by delivering comprehensive application and device management from both your existing on-premises infrastructure, including System Center Configuration Manager, Windows Server, and Active Directory, as well as cloud-based services, including Windows Intune and Windows Azure.
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Organizations need visibility and control of the hardware and software assets deployed in their environments. Discovery and inventory are the key first steps to gaining that visibility. The next step is to analyze and normalize the raw inventory data to identify the publishers, titles, versions and editions of software installed on each device. This normalized inventory data is the foundation for a number of business processes, including— software asset management and license compliance (IT Operations), software vulnerability management (Security), and IT service management. There are many business benefits that come from having normalized inventory, such as—identification of unauthorized software in the environment which could pose a security risk, rationalization and consolidation of the software portfolio to reduce management and support costs, and more.
Attend this webinar to hear about:
-Normalized Inventory Use Cases and Associated Business Value
-FlexNet Normalized Inventory for Clients
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Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is a leading platform for performance monitoring and management of Microsoft applications (such as Active Directory, Microsoft SQL Server, Exchange Server, IIS and SharePoint). However, SCOM does not have extensive capabilities to monitor non-Microsoft systems and applications (like Citrix, SAP, Oracle, Java, Sybase, etc.), nor does SCOM have virtualization-awareness for platforms like VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization, AIX LPARs and Solaris LDOMs, or virtual desktops (VDI).
To extend the scope of Microsoft SCOM to manage these environments, enterprises have to look at multiple third party products that provide individual management packs, one for each specific non-Microsoft platform. This traditional "multi-pack approach" creates complexity and only provides a fragmented view of the IT infrastructure. This approach leads to slow problem isolation and diagnosis, and often results in poor user experience and loss of user productivity.
Join performance monitoring expert Srinivas Ramanathan (CEO, eG Innovations) to learn about eG Enterprise for SCOM, a new universal management pack that fills this gap and provides a single, integrated solution with SCOM to address the performance management needs of today's enterprises. This webinar presentation will show you how to:
• Monitor and troubleshoot the entire IT service infrastructure end to end from the SCOM console
• Monitor applications and platforms not natively supported by System Center Operations Manager
• Instantly diagnose and get actionable insight into IT service health and performance
• Provide automatic, rapid root cause diagnosis for even the most complex performance problems
• Receive proactive problem detection and alerting before users call
• Maximize the return on your investment in System Center Operations Manager
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Respond to license audits in minutes, uncover unused software that can be cancelled or redeployed to lower expenses by 35% or more with this solution from IBM. Covers Windows, Linux, and Unix applications with a library of over 100,000 software titles.
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Microsoft has a history of providing rich IT-infrastructure solutions to help manage every aspect of enterprise operations. Microsoft’s people-centric solution consists of products and technologies that can help IT departments handle the influx of consumer-oriented technology and the work style expectations of users, thereby helping increase productivity and satisfaction for the people within their organizations.
Microsoft’s people-centric IT vision helps organizations enable and embrace the consumerization of IT by:
1. Enabling your end users by allowing users to work on the device(s) of their choice and providing consistent access to corporate resources from those devices.
2. Helping protect your data by protecting corporate information and managing risk.
3. Unifying your environment by delivering comprehensive application and device management from both your existing on-premises infrastructure, including System Center Configuration Manager, Windows Server, and Active Directory, as well as cloud-based services, including Windows Intune and Windows Azure.
Let’s discuss each of these areas in more detail.
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Learn about the Software Asset Management processes and tools required to manage your Office 365 subscription to control costs and maintain license compliance.
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- Ownership
- Advantages
- History
- Main Reasons
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- ASP
- Benefits
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Complete visibility and management over all endpoints - physical or virtual, on- or off-network across Windows, Max, Unix, and Linux servers, desktops, laptops, and specialty devices. Includes network discovery, deep hardware and software inventory of managed devices, software distribution and patch management, OS deployment and bare-metal provisioning, and remote control.
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FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud
1. DATASHEET
FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud
Software License Optimization Solution Delivered as Software as a Service
Flexera Software’s market leading software asset
management and Software License Optimization
solution, FlexNet Manager Suite, is available via
a cloud based Software as a Service (SaaS) delivery
model. This provides lower upfront costs, faster
deployment and shorter time to value since the
product is installed and managed in the Flexera
Software datacenter on our high availability
platform. There are no scalability or architectural
issues for the customer to consider, and product
upgrades are managed by Flexera Software.
FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud’s web-based user
interface provides anytime, anywhere access to
critical license management and Software License
Optimization functionality to allow organizations to
maintain license compliance, improve operational
efficiency and reduce ongoing costs for software.
FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud’s Software License
Optimization functionality includes:
• Application Discovery Inventory using an
Inventory Beacon to upload data to the cloud:
– Provides cross-platform (Windows, Linux,
UNIX, and MAC OS) discovery, inventory, and
application usage data collection
– Performs discovery and inventory of virtual
machines on VMware ESX/vSphere and
Microsoft Hyper-V servers, and supports Citrix
XenApp application virtualization environments.
– Leverages existing IT investments via integration
with a multitude of third-party standard
inventory sources including Symantec Altiris,
BMC Atrium Discovery and Dependency
Mapping (ADDM), BladeLogic Client
Automation (Marimba), HP Discovery and
Dependency Mapping Inventory (DDMI), IBM
License Metric Tool (ILMT), Microsoft System
Center Configuration Manager (SCCM), and
IBM Tivoli Endpoint Manager (BigFix)
– Enables organizations to ‘know what they have’
in their IT environment and consolidate vendors
and applications
• Purchased Versus Installed/Consumed License
Reconciliation:
– Reconciles software purchases against software
installed or used on computers and virtual
machines within an enterprise
– Built-in knowledge base recognizes more than
120,000 application titles and 600,000
software product part numbers (stock keeping
units or SKUs) to determine the license
entitlements for each software purchase, and
links that information to the software installed on
the devices within the target network
– Reconciliation process can provide a baseline
license position for more than 14,000 vendors
– Enables organizations to maintain license
compliance to reduce audit cost and risk
• Software License Optimization:
– Leverages the “product use rights” found in
licensing agreements – such as the right of
second use, multiple use, roaming use, virtual
use, and license mobility – to minimize license
consumption; use rights for key vendors are
encapsulated in the Product Use Rights Library
– Provides Software License Optimization for
major software vendors such as Microsoft,
Adobe, IBM, Oracle, SAP and Symantec
– Enables organizations to reduce license
consumption and lower ongoing costs
for software
• Dashboard and Reporting:
– Provides an intuitive management dashboard
enabling an administrator to understand the
current license position, receive alerts on issues,
and review key events such as data imports
– A compliance overview report summarizes
an organization’s exposure, such as its
financial liability and the number of licenses
in breach per publisher
– Drill downs provide deeper information for
any vendor products and the licenses
attached to those products
Benefits to
Your Organization
• Gain visibility and
control of your
software estate
• Reduce ongoing costs
for software
• Maintain continuous
license compliance
to reduce audit cost
and risk
• Realize lower upfront
costs for your Software
Asset Management and
License Optimization
solution
• Shorten time-to-value
with the Software as a
Service delivery model
2. How it Works
Software license management and optimization are performed by
matching installation and usage data to entitlements.
FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud—Software as a Service
Delivery Model
• Installation and usage data can be collected from existing
discovery and inventory tools such as SCCM, Altiris, etc.,
or alternatively customers can use the Inventory Manager
tool provided with FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud. A small
component called the Inventory Beacon is downloaded and
installed on site to perform discovery and inventory tasks
and securely upload the data to the cloud. All discovery and
inventory actions are managed and monitored from the Web
User Interface.
• License entitlement data is provided by purchase orders.
Flexera Software adapters connect to procurement systems to
collect this data for upload via the Inventory Beacon. The data
can also be uploaded as a spreadsheet or text file using the
Web User Interface.
• To report on license consumption, compliance or usage per
department, location, or cost center--organizational data,
including users and enterprise groups (shown as HR data in
the figure), is uploaded to the cloud, again using the Web UI
or the Inventory Beacon to collect and securely package this
data for transmission.
• Once the data is uploaded from the Inventory Beacon
and/or through spreadsheets or text files, license records
will automatically be created in the FlexNet Manager Suite
repository, according to stock keeping unit (SKU) definitions
stored in the built-in SKU Library.
• All management functions and reports are available to
customers from the same Web User Interface.
Figure 1: FlexNet Manager Suite Cloud—Software as a Service Delivery Model
FlexNet Manager Suite
Cloud
Flexera Discovery
and Inventory
Third Party Tools Entitlement and
HR Data
AD
Customer Site
Management
Reporting
Data Collection
Inventory Beacon
• Agent or
agentless
• Oracle
• Virtualization
ILMT HR3rd party
Inventory
(SCCM,
Altiris...)
POs