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 2025 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

  1. Interface Check
    1. Interface Health Check
    2. Identify missing or broken agents
    3. Identify missing software inventory data points and transactions
  2. Entitlements
    1. Normalize Entitlements
    2. Add new licenses and contracts
    3. Clear new entitlements
    4. Apply upgrade and downgrade rights
  3. Installations
    1. Normalize Deployments
    2. Normalize signatures coming out of various endpoints to high-level product name
    3. Identify and calibrate suite products
  4. Final Calibrations
    1. Apply upgrade and downgrade rights
    2. Create final compliance report

 

 

SAM Tooling

If you use ServiceNow, SAM Pro LDS can help you in range of areas.

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Received Audit Letter

Software Audit-Negotiation Support

If you have received an audit letter or inquiry from a software publisher, let us help you.

Salesforce Licensing Review

For organizations wishing to reduce the overall cost and risk associated with their software estate, this service delivers a complete license position plus recommendations for improvements and to future-proof licensing. It offers particular value if you are looking to make changes to your current on premise infrastructure, or move to a cloud environment.

Other Publishers

For organizations wishing to reduce the overall cost and risk associated with their software estate, this service delivers a complete license position plus recommendations for improvements and to future-proof licensing. It offers particular value if you are looking to make changes to your current on premise infrastructure, or move to a cloud environment.

LDS helps clients inventory their software investments using a combination of our own proprietary scripts, system generated reports, data collection methodologies, and any available SAM tools. Our analyst (former software auditors) then calculate consumption and compare that against license entitlement to give clients true auditor-level accuracy in their compliance positions. Our analysis identifies cost savings via unused software, recommends alternate cost effective ways of licensing the same product, and suggests architectural changes that can substantially reduce footprints/cost. We have deep expertise with many publishers lets get on a call where we explore your concerns with our vendor specific licensing manager.

Microsoft Licensing Review

For organizations wishing to reduce the overall cost and risk associated with their software estate, this service delivers a complete license position plus recommendations for improvements and to future-proof licensing. It offers particular value if you are looking to submit your yearly true up, make changes to your current on-premise infrastructure, or move to a SaaS/Cloud environment.

LDS helps clients inventory their software investments using a combination of our own proprietary scripts, system generated reports, data collection methodologies, and any available SAM tools. Our analyst (former software auditors) then calculate consumption and compare that against license entitlement to give clients true auditor-level accuracy in their compliance positions. Our analysis identifies cost savings via unused software, recommends alternate cost effective ways of licensing the same product, and suggests architectural changes that can substantially reduce footprints/cost.

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