Software License Compliance made easy with the new reconcile feature

New: Reconcile software licenses and inventory to validate license compliance

Understanding your organization’s software license compliance standing is a key part of managing your routine business risks. To mitigate the risk of an external license audit or noncompliance fines, you have to be in a position to easily view your company’s compliance status at any time and take any required action to get back on track.

To analyze your company’s license compliance status you have to reconcile your organization’s software licenses (“what you own”) with your software inventory (“what you use”). This sounds a lot easier than it actually is, as your software inventory keeps on changing when users install or remove software from their computers, and new computers gets added or removed across your network. What makes it even more complicated is the clutter of software across your network, which typically includes patches, security updates, drivers and other types of software that has nothing to do with licensing or compliance.

To make it easier to reconcile software licenses and software inventory we created the new software reconcile feature:

Align your software inventory with your software licenses

Reconcile your software inventory with your software licenses

The new reconcile feature analyzes your software inventory and lists software titles with no matching license available in the License Repository. As you work your way through the list you can mark the software as such that requires no license, or simply create a new software license and enter any licenses you own into the License Repository. This provides for a quick and effective way to go through your software inventory, make sure you capture all the software licenses you own, and validate your license compliance standing.

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