Civica License Manager
for Microsoft Systems Management Server®
Civica License Manager ensures central control of all software licenses and contracts as well as tracking actual usage combined with local administration and reporting.
Civica License Manager automatically combines infrastructure information provided by Microsoft SMS® with information such as contracts, purchased licenses, ownership and prices.
This allows you to create, control and support the complete life cycle of software assets including license registration, usage analyse, contract management and cost management according to the ISO standard 19770.
BENEFITS
Maximise your SMS® investment
Combine Civica License Manager with Microsoft SMS to get a complete software asset management tool without having to buy any inventory agents.
Manage your software agreements
Store and manage contracts for applications, agreements, services and support.
Recycle and avoid unnecessary license cost
Make sure that you are utilising all your software assets. Easily locate and uninstall or re-use unused licenses within your organisation.
Manage different types of licenses
Civica License Manager handles various types of licenses such as user based licenses, installed based licenses, concurrent users based licenses or concurrent devices based licenses for use in Terminal Server or Citrix environments.
Keep standards
With full control on software policies as well as complete information on all hardware, you can maintain and monitor your software and hardware standards with just a click of a button.
Effective planning and budgeting
Don’t ever get surprised when planning upgrades or changes. With complete and accurate data from the start you will have complete control over both your time and project plan.
Monitor changes
Keep track of all hardware and software changes on your computers in order to correct misuse or analyse future needs depending on historical changes. Civica Inventory stores all changes and removals on the machines which makes it easy for you to analyse and find errors depending on historical changes, when they occurred and who made them.
FEATURES
Hardware management
- View hardware information such as model, OS, memory, BIOS serial number and disk
- Manage the state of your computers whether they are:
• Active
• In storage
• Discarded
• On service
• Sold
- Set ownership and cost based on computers
- Log in history
- Set purchasing price and store invoice references on your hardware for depreciation
Contract management
- Manage all types of contracts and agreements. Set ownerships of contracts and specify cost centers. Connect software and hardware to specific contracts
- Upload and store copies of your contracts and agreements
Software management
- Manage ownership based on licenses, computers as well as users and specify cost centers
- Make users anonymous in order to meet integrity demands
- Monitor software usage
• Number of times used
• Total time used
- Use different license types on different applications such as user based or installation based licenses
- Define your standard software. Set alarms to alert you when there are changes in the standard
- Store license information, such as • Location of license proof • Media location • System owner • License keys
- Store software vendor information
- Supports both local and central license registration according to ISO 19770
- Track licenses attached to specific software agreements
System features
- Create smart rules for auto bundling discovered software
- Civica License Manager enables you to set individual user settings
- Role based user security
- Multi language support
- Print or export your reports to excel, html, text or XML
- Multiple custom fields for your information about the assets
- Three levels of alerts on agreements, licenses and hardware makes it easy to identify the most urgent problems
Reporting and alerts
- Use filters to create reports with accurate and detailed information
- Define your own categories of software, hardware and users
- Define your organisation and cost center structure in up to five levels
- Customise alerts and reports
