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Snow Software launches Snow License Manager 8

Snow Software, the Software Asset Management specialists have launched Snow License Manager 8. A major leap forward in software license optimisation technologies, the release reflects the role of the data centre at the heart of the organisation. Holding up to 70% of an organisation’s software assets, data centres present complexities with licensing, requiring significant automation, preventing effective software optimisation.

Snow License Manager 8 delivers license management and software optimisation across the organisation by enabling greater transparency, forecasting and reporting. This latest generation of SAM brings more value to stakeholders, including C-level executives and SAM managers. In addition to its management functionality, reporting and forecasting capabilities make SAM a strategic business function capable of supporting current and future software planning needs.

Snow License Manager 8 supports businesses with:

• Better financial management from the ability to track and forecast future costs
• Greater clarity over audit calculations to enable smoother audits
• Expanded reporting capabilities to better communicate the insight from SAM to the wider organization

“Organisations have long used SAM to manage licenses, but the future of software will demand a user-centric approach to managing and optimising software consumption, whatever the application or device. Software is a business asset and as organizations seek to gain more value from it, the resources they need to ensure this is effective have to become more intelligent and intuitive,” said Peter Björkman, CTO at Snow Software. “For this reason, SAM will become a platform for the entire organisation to play an active role in the optimisation of software use and cost management.”

Data centres are one of the most complex areas for the organization to manage and optimise license use. As a result, data centres have the greatest potential for optimisation and cost-savings. Capacity-based licensing can often result in double licensing and compliance risks. Snow License Manager 8 addresses these challenges with functionality specifically for managing, mapping and cataloguing data centre environments. For example, ensuring optimized use of full upgrade and downgrade entitlements, and automatically applying processor core factor licensing for Microsoft and Oracle software.

“Optimising and managing data centre software is a growing focus area for the SAM manager and for IT. The complexity of this environment and the resource drain any potential audits would cause means there are significant gains and losses to be made. Snow is investing in this new battleground now as we know many of our customers’ software optimisation needs will soon rely on this,” Björkman added.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Snow Software .