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As a vendor, the responsibility of proper license management falls on your shoulder. And you just cannot afford any excuse for improper license handling. The whole point of software license management is to give you clarity and transparency over the software assets of your own. It helps you get data on license usage so that you can understand who is using which software and for how long. Importance of software license management Software license management gives you visibility into your company’s infrastructure. This ability can help you cut the cost you spend buying different software. Along with that it helps to save money for your future software investments. With proper management, you can take decisions that help to maximise the savings manifold. 4 best practices you can use to enhance your software license management strategy Organise your inventory It’s time to clean up the pile of software and arrange them in a more organised manner in an inventory. You can do so by using the ...

Do you want to make your customers more aware of where their IT structure needs improvement? And what are the steps they need to perform to improve and align their overall performance? Then use our Microsoft software inventory tool . Why? Because there are several benefits that you will observe that come with this tool.   Some of the benefits of the Microsoft software inventory tool are the following:   It helps to improve visibility:   This tool allows you to increase the visibility of the customers. The visibility here means that the customers can see the assets that exist in an infrastructure and other details related to it. For example: how those assets are being used? And who is using them?   It helps to align the operations:   Microsoft SPLA license inventory tool makes it easy to align the operations. This helps to- Speed up the time it takes to maintain and manage the records. Prepare the reports. Reduce the support requests. And reduce the errors. ...

SPLA is a program that provides hosting offers. These offers are for service providers and are used to rent or lease Microsoft products every month. Service providers use SPLA to provide applications to their end customers. The reporting of the SPLA must be done by you every month on or before the fixed date set by your distributor because it is your obligation but the thing is, you need to know what y ou have in order to manage it and do the reporting. Octopus makes this task easier for you in a few simple steps: l    It collects data from your entire infrastructure. l    It calculate s the cost of each product used with accura cy. l    Then it generates an SPLA report monthly. l    It also looks for any improvements and any chance of reduction in cost and applies that. Octopus provides its customer with great insight into their IT infrastructure and server them three solutions regarding SPLA licensing and cloud migration which are ...