Do organizations pay too much for your software licensing? Paying more licences than you use doesn’t make your company really effective, especially when we talk about IT Cost Transparency. Do you know how much money your company spends on software licensing versus their utilization? Using inventory, SCCM detects if an application is installed, it also monitors usage using Software Metering and uninstalls the application using deployment mechanisms. Combining all, you can deliver a great solution to minimize licences cost to your organization. Software metering is a great feature that is not always well known by the business. The company must take the advantage of monitoring the usage and automatically uninstalling applications that are unused. For more details about Software Metering, read this TechNet post. This post shows how to automatically uninstall unused applications with SCCM witch is also part 5 of the Asset Intelligence Blog Series. Pre-Requisites The first thing … Read More
Merging Last Usage of Software Metering with Custom Labels of Asset Intelligence
Software Metering analyzes the usage of any executable files. Asset Intelligence inventory and manage software by using a catalogue. So why would we want to merge both? Have a comprehensive view of your software usage in order to save licensing costs. Companies spend lots of money on unused software licences each year. Monitor software usage can save lots of money for your organization. The problem with Software Metering is that it is based on the executable. It does not always mean that the software is installed on a machine. There’s a way to merge software usage with a real installation and that’s the goal of this post. First of all, you need to use custom labels in Asset Intelligence. Second, you’ll need to create a link between Asset Intelligence and Software Metering. Third, use reporting to share the usage of each installation in your organization. Asset Intelligence In our example, … Read More