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Snow License Manager

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What is Snow License Manager?

Snow License Manager enables organizations to gain an accurate view of software usage and entitlements. Organizations can then dynamically reconcile these findings against license entitlements to optimize their IT environments and be audit-ready.HOW IT WORKSSnow License Manager is the central…

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Snow License Manager.

9 out of 10
January 25, 2023
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9 out of 10
October 15, 2022
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What is Snow License Manager?

Snow License Manager enables organizations to gain an accurate view of software usage and entitlements. Organizations can then dynamically reconcile these findings against license entitlements to optimize their IT environments and be audit-ready.

HOW IT WORKS
Snow License Manager is the central hub for the Snow Software Asset Management platform, providing a unified view of installed software, SaaS, cloud resources and hardware. With Snow License Manager, usage data is automatically translated into commercial software product information using Snow Data Intelligence Service. Regardless of the source of inventory data, license entitlements or organizational data, Snow License Manager turns raw data into clean, consistent, actionable intelligence that can be used by a variety of stakeholders to make informed decisions.

UNLOCK A UNIFIED VIEW OF ALL ASSETS
Snow License Manager provides a consolidated view of all assets, including end-user computing, data center, SaaS, public cloud and hardware. Multiple deployment models, software vendors, device types, and locations can be managed with just one interface. Customizable dashboards with detailed analytics, drill-down and filters enable quick access to data. Plus, audit data can be imported from multiple inventory sources to cover the full range of platforms.

STAY COMPLIANT AND BUILD AUDIT DEFENSE

Snow Software automatically calculates compliance positions, even for complex data center titles which may be virtual or physical. Snow is used to track license entitlements against usage in public cloud platforms to reduce audit risk. Snow License Manager can also help determine an organization's effective license position, and displays technology assets, entitlements and agreements, to support audit preparedness.


OPTIMIZE YOUR TECHNOLOGY INVESTMENTS

Snow License Manager automatically identifies unused cloud subscriptions and software installations to optimize an organization's license or subscription level, uninstall and harvest licenses. With immediate insight into total investment, compliance risk and overspend for either a single application or the whole product family, users can see license optimization opportunities and take action to reduce costs.

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The most common users of Snow License Manager are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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Christian Brandt Olsen | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SNOW to keep track of our users in our SAP system. It gives us an easy overview
  • Great overview
  • Easy to use
  • Easy Tracking
  • Great reports
  • Make a scheduleemail of dashboards
  • Keeping screen layout, when restart
  • Errors while creating reports
  • Integration with other systems,
Easy to make Information collection and software identification. Less appropriate to see unidentified software products in the admin user web pages, and not only in server tool.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use SLM for license management in order to create license compliance. We also use contract management to manage our IT contracts. It is important for us that the license rules from the manufacturers are mapped in Snow. This means that we can rely on the license balance created by Snow.
  • manage all license items
  • generates reliable compliance
  • offers flexible contract management
  • It should be displayed more easier which license is assigned to which client
When replacing computers, it is easy to determine which software the old computer has installed in order to supply the new computer with the necessary software. Contracts that are to be renewed are automatically presented for renewal.

The content of the cost fields formatted by Snow is displayed as incorrect when a data record is saved again. Saving is only possible after appropriate changes have been made.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Snow License Manager for compliancy check on software licenses. Snow License Manager is also used by the IT engineers for information about the usage of software product with the hospital. Snow License Manager give us a " live" view of al servers and clients useds within the hospital, thsi information is used in IT asset management and lifecycle of the hardware items.
  • Software uses an type of vendors
  • Information gathering about the hardware
  • Very usefull reports
  • Easy to extend the data from external sources
  • Keeping screen layout, colums selection on user account base.
  • Better hardware reports of the devices, like monitor uses
  • Putting more information (manual import) on not inventoried devices
There is more than enough information and easy filtering foor IT engineers to get there information. When we will know if a particular software item is used or not, Snow License Manager gives the answer, so we can often cleanout applications.
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Snow License Manager is used to track licenses and it's usage. I have also implemented processes to published authorised and denied software allowed to be installed on companies computers.

Aspiration is that Snow License Manager provides accurate information to enable informed decisions to be made around license usage, vendor spend and reduce risk of unlicensed or end of life software.
  • Default reports are great
  • Interface is easy enough to follow once you know what it is your looking for
  • Scheduled reporting is easy to set up and maintain
  • Standard applications reports i.e. reports of applications flagged as denied on the allowed list. This would make the reporting and scheduling automated rather then being manual.
  • License / Agreement email notification with to users who do not have access to Snow License Manager with predefined text messages i.e. informing users what they need to do as next steps. The text can be updated based on privilege's set up on Snow License Manager e.g. Snow License Manager administrator
  • Standard report which returns empty container application records
  • schedule email of dashboards
  • ability to record application versions greater then 0.x.x in the SRS library. This is critical to tracking of applications where the latest version.
  • consistency of labels of columns through the various reports
  • The ability to select and move multiple columns at the same time when building or updating a report .
  • one report which shows a application, user, computer, if the application requires a license and which users have a valid license for the application.
Snow License Manager is well suited to organisations who can afford to invest in the resources to establish, run and maintain the tool, processes and people once the organisation has established the roles and responsibilities and the procurement processes including software licensing and Snow License Manager intergration/aligment.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use Snow License Manager to monitor and manage our software landscape. We use it to track installations and removals of software along with usage. We also use it to help monitor the active computers in our environment. We record our software purchases and licenses in SLM in order to track our software compliance position. If it relates to software, Snow License Manager is our organizations single source of truth.
  • Software installations and removals
  • Software usage
  • Software license tracking
  • More options regarding AD user importing
SLM is really great for being able to reclaim software licenses when assigned users are not using their software. This is really helpful especially at renewal time. In reality when it comes to software, Snow is very good at managing all aspects.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We use it to managed our licenses. We check if there is any diferrence between the amount of licenties we have en the amout we use. We check if there is a posibilty to spare some money. The scope is the two hospitals and other departments in the region where we use IT. Sometimes there is a check which applications are installed on specific devices.
  • Creating overview
  • UX
  • Simple & easy to use
  • Processing time application
  • Errors when creating reports
Well Suited: Checking licenses, creating reports Less Appropriate: checking costs
Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Snow License Manager to manage all computers, licenses and IT contracts. The most important thing here is to always have license compliance in view.
  • List with all installed applications
  • the frequency of use of installed applications
  • License Compliance
  • Contract Management
  • Saving customized list outputs
  • Evaluation of who is assigned which license
Mark E Walther | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
A way to see and inventory IT Assets globally. Be able to respond to audits and maintain software compliance. Snow data has also helped with multiple IT projects for upgrading or refreshing hardware.
  • Maintain Inventory Data
  • Global view of IT asset
  • Integration with other systems, like ServiceNow. There are connectors but takes a bit of manipulation to get the data to line up.
Great view into IT Hardware and Software assets and usage.
Jennifer Richards | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Snow License Manager is used to manage over 1000 agreements and 11,000 software licenses. We also heavily use the computer and user discovery data to supplement our ITSM system and validate when the device was last used, and by whom.
  • Manage software licenses
  • Calculate software compliance
  • Discover computer and user information
  • Lacks the ability to discover of company-specific URLs. Two options to add them are or were available, but the one that works isn't supported and won't be provided and the other doesn't fully work, so neither are recommended for use by Snow. That leaves zero options.
  • Agreement information cannot be updated in bulk, such as when the main contact for multiple agreements change due to organization changes.
  • If a device is on the network, but no one has recently logged into it, Snow will show the previous user as actively logging in each day (even months after their last logon).
Snow License Manager is well suited for organizations using standard licensing models and working with major manufacturers. The tool sometimes struggles with more complex licensing models, although it does allow the metric to be entered manually in those cases. Also, if a company has many less commonly-used software titles, there is a good chance they will not be included in Snow's Software Recognition Service and each title will have to be submitted to Snow to be added to their service.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
So far we use Snow License Manager to monitor software usage. We are in the process of entering all contracts into Snow to gain visibility into software costs and compliance. This allows us to pass on costs to the actual users. We also want to gain insight into the actual use of licenses. In addition to the software inventory, we also want to map the hardware per department.
  • Inventory of software usage
  • Enables custom reporting
  • Provides insight through dashboards
  • Helps with contract management
  • Simply add own developed software
  • Make a report of the self-developed software present in Snow
Snow works fine for standard software, but is less suitable if different programs are started from a tool. Particularly for for suites, eg from Autodesk, it is difficult to prevent Snow from not double counting the software contained in the suite, especially if certain software appears in several suites (AutoCAD MAP 3D).
January 25, 2023

Snow License Manager.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Snow License Manager is used to analyze and manage our broad license landscape. With Snow, we are able to gain knowledge on a more accurate license volume estimate, which saves on license cost, but also we are able to analyze trends and make a more accurate prediction of required software (by use). With the "snowboard," we have a handy dashboard that alerts us for upcoming negotiations and license saturation. With automated reports, we are able to help product owners, giving them an overview and alerts.
  • License landscape capture.
  • Comprehensive Tools to analyse license landscape (Reports).
  • Great Customer Service provides detailed adjustments to preferences.
  • Difficulty handling big dbs.
  • Snowboard offers limited functionality and needs more options for customization.
  • Automation of Analysis beyond reports not yet possible.
  • Very limited/no customization for the installer.
Snow is perfectly suited to gain knowledge and collect data in a huge company like ours, but I can't see it being used for a small business, as it's simply "overkill". Perfectly suited to maintain a healthy control over a broad license landscape with often complex and not easy-to-look-through ownerships, provides a great tool to enhance license use. Some.
Score 10 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
I use Snow License Manager for many tasks, but it's main use is what is was designed for Software Asset Management, we keep all of our Contracts, license agreements, subscriptions, license keys, etc. in Snow License Manager and then allow the tool to do it's work and report to us on our compliance position. But the data from Snow License Manager is so rich that we also complete many other tasks on a daily basis with this data, such as identifying unauthorised software installations and getting them removed, or reporting on failed services after an application update, or reporting on firmware versions installed across the network, or...
  • Auto calculates compliance, we have a process in place to package new software and as such we check that Snow License Manager understand how to license the software, doing this small piece of work at the start of an application deployment means that Snow License Manager can report on our compliance accurately, and to be completely honest the changes we have to make are few, as the Snow License Manager team does a great job adding these in to Snow License Manager automatically.
  • Recognise Software Applications to the right licensing level, again this work is completed by Snow License Manager in the background, but know when an application support and maintenance allows you to have free upgrades or not, or when specific applications go end of life, is vital data on top of recognizing the application itself.
  • Being able to read all of the data collated from the front end rather then having to access the back end services, would help save me time and effort, but I understand that this would not be something that all users would want.
  • A better way of sharing and managing reports. The current system means that a single change to a spelling could create a new folder, and that folder do not have permissions to share reports but individual reports all have to have permissions added, so a new user starting means I have to open and add that individual to 50+ reports. If there were sharing Groups this would make a difference in time saving.
I have said at a number of events that I have attended, where other suppliers have shown their latest and greatest new thing, it is the fundamentals that need to work, and need to work well, and this is what Snow License Manager does. It does not take a team of 100 staff to get the tool working or to keep the tool functioning, it works and is stable out of the box. We have learnt that putting the right processes in at the start means that Snow License Manager can do what it has been designed to do and what we have paid for it to do. Audits from vendors now days are relatively simple actions, with the Snow License Manager doing it's job we can quickly run a report and know exactly what our position is and then act accordingly, quick, simple and accurate data at your finger tips, as long as you put the work in to enter the license details etc. If Snow License Manager could invent a robot to go around the business and find all these bits of paper for us then that would be perfect.
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
Snow License Manager is used in our organization for four main purposes: to determine which applications are run and where on 35,000+ computers running Windows, iOS or Linux, to alert responsible individuals to application license expiry and warn of impending and current compliance issues, to assist purchase planning and department software requests , and to identify and harvest unused licenses for reuse elsewhere according the the licensing terms. Before Snow License Manager was deployed in our organization, each branch managed software according to its own capability. There was no comprehensive, holistic application contributing to the awareness of licensing issues. Although each branch did its best, no one really knew the software estate's size, value or deployment. Where permissible by the licenses, there was still little sharing of licenses between international branches, which led in some cases to over-purchasing. Another issue was identifying unwanted and insecure applications. Also many varied applications doing basically the same thing had been deployed. Using Snow License Manager and carefully examining the use cases, the number of different applications used could be reduced. This simplified software asset management. The small footprint of the Snow Agent Manager permits deployment even in the most demanding computing environments.
  • Identifies where and when software applications have been used
  • Checks compliance of applications to the license terms
  • Warns of impending license expiries
  • Recognition of licensed plugins running in another application's executable is missing
  • There is inconsistent use of Wildcards like "%" across search fields in the SLM and SMACC
  • The search "filter" called "Also include not installed/used" is necessary to see not installed/used applications.
In large organizations especially with extensive networking among branches, Snow License Manager provides comprehensive information for software application management and acquisition. Users can be given privileges in Snow License Manager commensurate with their job profile.

In smaller organizations it could be oversized. Snow License Manager has a stiff learning curve requiring dedicated human resources to grasp, implement and deploy. For small organizations that could be too costly in terms of initial costs and the time the user needs to become proficient.
Steven Calkins | TrustRadius Reviewer
Score 8 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
The organization has ~35,000 networked computers and about the same number not connected to the network. The control of which software is used worldwide in over 80 branch offices throughout the world was an insurmountable problem until that organization began using Snow. It is currently used for almost all network-connected (IT-managed) computers using the Windows and iOS operating systems. Linux is beginning to be implemented. The detached (IT unmanaged) devices are not currently being scanned for software. Frequently unrecognized software appears within the usage of the organization, and the Snow DIS department offers an online Software Recognition Service which adds or amends recognition rules and/or applications to provide recognition for applications that are hitherto unknown. One deficit remains in the case of plugins that run exclusively with the application executable. Very often, these cannot be recognized out of the box, so the solution is to create a local application without recognition rules to manage the licenses. The open architecture of Snow does permit the creation of Powershell scripts that run for such cases, which now begin to be implemented within the organization. The Snow agent, which runs on each managed computer once a day, has a small footprint and does not interfere with compute-intensive applications. All-in-all, the Snow infrastructure is reliable, the service personnel is amiable, and the product is a good choice for large organizations.
  • SLM finds installations of software reliably.
  • SLM determines the usage of applications, web apps, and the users who employ them.
  • SLM Reports help management determine current and future application usage.
  • SLM notifies when forbidden programs are installed.
  • SLM provides complete license management.
  • The Snow Management and Control Center (SMACC) has inconsistent searches and filters, some functioning with wildcards and others not.
  • The learning curve of Snow is quite steep.
  • Recalculating compliance can slow the entire application down.
In large organizations where control can be exercised over the computers and the range of the software estate is not clear, Snow can be employed with great benefit, easily identifying applications currently in use and determining over-purchase and under-purchase. In BYOD scenarios, Snow would be less effective since the organization has no clear way to control which applications scanned by the Snow agent belong to the user and which to the organization. Perhaps limiting installations to a virtual realm on the devices employed (VMs or virtual appliances) would make it possible, but this would require significant planning on the part of the IT in such scenarios.
October 15, 2022

Just starting with SLM.

Score 9 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using SLM to collect and present information regarding our IT estate, what we have installed, where it is, and who is using it. We will be reporting on airgap-separated domains, where licenses may or may not be shared.
  • Information collection.
  • Software identification.
  • I would like to be able to see unidentified software products in the admin user web pages, and not just on the server tool.
SLM does not appear to be able to show the usage patterns of concurrent-use engineering applications.
Score 5 out of 10
Vetted Review
Verified User
Incentivized
We are using Snow to record all of our software licensing and also monitoring utilization. It is primarily managed by a software asset manager, who enters and maintains the licensing information in snow. Other departments have access to reference relevant licenses and reports as they need them. This was purchased to pull licenses out of multiple spreadsheets and help to monitor how software is actually being used.
  • It can track if a software has been used and report back for utilization review.
  • It can monitor and alert on license and contact expiration, which helps eliminate the human factor with manual reminders.
  • There is a lot of flexibility in the software to handle your license information.
  • The reporting and searching tools are powerful, but are dependent on the person entering the data in a clean, uniform manner. We've had problems that rendered searches, primarily from data issues.
  • The utilization relies on clients writing back at assigned times, we have 'frozen' workstations that don't preserve data. This has led to many problems and manual configurations to get it working properly (and I don't think they all currently are).
  • The software identification can be troublesome. We've had many software 'alerts' that we were out of compliance because part of an application was detected as something else and then didn't match the product. Accuracy is definitely a problem.
If you need to centralize your licensing and subscriptions, this solution will work. If you are running standard computers in an office, this will give you decent utilization statistics.

If you have any non-persistent workstations, then it isn't going to be for you. If you aren't running the full packages of some major software, you'll have a lot of work to do to convince Snow that you are in compliance.

It is heavily dependent on the data entry quality, so if you have a central person in charge of data entry it will be a good solution. If there are many hands entering license and software data, you may run into headaches.
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