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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 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…
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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
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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- Microsoft 365
- Quest
- BMC Helix Discovery
- Ivanti Automation
- CloudSphere
- VMWare
- Oracle
- SAP
- MicroFocus
- Citrix
- Symantec
- Citrix XenServer
- KACE
- HP DDMI
- HP Server Automation
- HP Universal Discovery
- BIGFIX
- PowerVM
- Red Hat Enterprise Virtualization
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- ServiceNow
- Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager
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Reviewers rate Ease of integration highest, with a score of 7.8.
The most common users of Snow License Manager are from Enterprises (1,001+ employees).
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October 05, 2023
Snow SLM - A SAM Tool That Just Works!
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
June 16, 2023
Snow License Manager, buy it, use it
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.
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).
April 20, 2023
Snow License Manager REALLY helps
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
January 25, 2023
Snow License Manager.
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.
January 24, 2023
Snow License Manager, does exactly what it says on the box.
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.
October 27, 2022
A Robust and Comprehensive SAM Product for Large Enterprises.
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.
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.