Software License Management

The Growing Software License Management Challenge

IT administrators must balance two competing desires when it comes to software license management:

The desire to remain in software license compliance as specified in the contracts
The desire to extract the most value from existing and new software licenses

AppStream enables IT to easily balance these two competing goals.

AppStream's Software License Management solution ensures software license compliance by:

Centralizing the administration of software licenses.
AppStream's Software License Management solution enables administrators to grant and restrict end user access to various applications, preventing end users from needlessly running up license counts in the enterprise through unauthorized application installs.
Automating the software license compliance process.
AppStream's Software License Management solution tracks the number of licenses currently in use, continually comparing the number of licenses deployed to the total number of licenses owned. This information can be used to trigger alerts, to restrict access or to prompt for additional license purchases. Additionally, AppStream automatically eliminates applications from the end user machine upon license expiration.
Auditing current license deployments.
AppStream's Software License Management solution provides robust reporting functionality that can depict historical and up-to-the-minute license counts for use in compliance and audit situations. AppStream supports multiple licensing schemas including time-based, time-bombed, unique users and unlimited access.
Eliminating the threat of piracy.
AppStream's software distribution technology delivers the application to the PC in a format that is not duplicable, making it impossible to reproduce an AppStream-delivered software license.

At the same time, AppStream's Software License Management solution optimizes the utilization of the software licenses the enterprise owns by:

Automating the process of license reclamation.
AppStream's Software License Management solution can be configured to automatically reclaim licenses that have become inactive, including licenses:

Tracking usage to discover unused licenses.
AppStream's Software License Management solution tracks application usage for every end user in the organization. This information can be leveraged to initiate automated, policy-based unused license re-harvesting, limiting idle software inventory in the organization.
Optimizing license purchase decisions.
AppStream's Software License Management solution keeps a historical record of licenses in use at all times, as well as the usage of the deployed applications. This information can be leveraged during license contract negotiation to inform purchase decisions.

Capability		Benefit

	Centralized administration of software licenses throughout the organization	Ensures that users have access to applications they need, while preventing unauthorized installs

	Continual, automated software license compliance tracking	Guarantees that the organization is always in 100% compliance with all licenses

	Audit-ready installation history tracking	Provides audit trail of historical installs, proving license compliance

	Distributes unduplicable applications	Guaranteed piracy-proof

	Automated license reclamation	Ensures that licenses are used to maximum effect in the enterprise

	Granular usage tracking & reporting	Enables the identification of unused licenses

	License deployment history tracking	Collects information that can optimize license renegotiation