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Other SAM Tools
Selecting a SAM tool can be a daunting task.
Every SAM tool has its own strengths and weaknesses.
LDS has over a decade of experience in working with various SAM tools - we can help map your unique requirements to the appropriate SAM tool.
SAM Tool Managed Services
SAM tool’s are not ‘set it and forget it’ tools, they need continuous care and maintenance.
LDS can assist in:
- Interface health check
- Periodically we compare agents/data reported vs other sources in your environment to make sure your SAM tool coverage is at 100% and all endpoints are reporting into the SAM tool
- Publisher Onboarding and clearing
- LDS will daily or as a batch assist in loading/clearing all the entitlements from your procurement system like SAP, Ariba, etc
- Deployment clearing
- Clearing deployment signatures
- Applying downgrade/parallel use rights
- Applying specific contract terms and conditions
- Remote management of your SAM tool
- Daily monitoring/troubleshooting input data feeds
- Daily status reporting
- Running daily automated cron jobs, etc.
- Monitoring agent health
Aspera
SmartTrack has optimized software and cloud licenses in large Global Fortune 500 companies. The platform is built for enterprises with many employees to manage data centers that stretch globally. It directly integrates with your tools and systems that are already in place, and easily scales in large environments.
Services Offered:
- Interface Health Check
- Identify missing or broken agents
- Identify missing software inventory data points and transactions
- Monitor feeds from various systems into LIMA/SmartTrack
- Normalize Entitlements
- Add new licenses and contracts
- Clear new entitlements
- Apply upgrade and downgrade rights
- Normalize Deployments
- Normalize signatures coming out of various end points to high level product name
- Apply metric engines to relevant products
- Clear deployments
- Identify and calibrate suite products
- Reconciliation
- Create final compliance position to show overage and under utilization
The core of Flexera’s SAM offering is FlexNet Manager, which is available as a suite or individual modules. These modules include FlexNet Manager for Clients, for Data Centers, for SAP Applications and for Engineering Applications.
Flexera offers a depth of vendors and products. Also, recently they have added support for SAAS and cloud
Snow
Snow is a leader in the Magic Quadrant per the Gartner June, 2020 SAM Tools Report.
Snow offers strong support for traditional SAM objectives, including software license compliance, and optimization of vendors such as Microsoft, Oracle, IBM and SAP, while adding capabilities to support cloud consumption management.
ServiceNow SAM Pro
SAM Pro is a relatively new entrant in the SAM market, but in a very short period of time they have gone to become a leader in the Magic Quadrant per the Gartner 2022 SAM Tools Report.
The ServiceNow® Software Asset Management (SAMPRO) application systematically tracks, evaluates, and manages software licenses, compliance, and optimization. You can reclaim unused software rights, purchase new software rights, and manage allocations for entitlements.
LDS Offerings
- Interface Check
- Interface Health Check
- Identify missing or broken agents
- Identify missing software inventory data points and transactions
- Entitlements
- Normalize Entitlements
- Add new licenses and contracts
- Clear new entitlements
- Apply upgrade and downgrade rights
- Installations
- Normalize Deployments
- Normalize signatures coming out of various end points to high level product name
- Identify and calibrate suite products
- Final Calibrations
- Apply upgrade and downgrade rights
- Create final compliance report
