The Benefits of Centennial License Manager

Software represents a significant cost burden to the enterprise in terms of purchase, maintenance and management. To accurately compare discovered software against captured license entitlements, you need Centennial License Manager, the key to effective software asset management and license compliance.

Centennial License Manager is a web-based software license compliance solution that integrates seamlessly to enable organisations to quickly achieve and maintain an accurate desktop software licensing position.

Benefits:

Drive down costs – prevent unnecessary purchases or inflated maintenance agreements by accurately reconciling usage against entitlement.

Increase knowledge of your software estate and its usage – remain informed on the volume, patch status, location, licensing position and usage of your software assets installed on your network.

Improve IT governance – manage the complete lifecycle of software assets, from procurement to disposal.

Achieve and maintain compliance – ensure that software usage does not exceed licenses held. Prove compliance with accurate reports.

Why Centennial License Manager?

License Manager is the most intuitive, flexible solution for managing desktop license compliance across the organization:

License capture wizards – simply follow on-screen instructions to provide a full audit trail of your software license entitlement and cross reference to the physical evidence. Also take advantage of the unique scanner wizard to document proof of entitlement.

Automatic Vendor SKU recognition – no need for manual matching of invoice items to vendor SKU's (where applicable) reducing the risk of transposition errors or other inaccuracies.

Direct Software audit data import – import asset data directly from Centennial Discovery with no need for third-party data cleansers or converters.

Multiple OU's and sites – manage multiple organizational units and office locations through a single system.

Upgrade & downgrade rights management – intelligent rules for automatically calculating software upgrade and downgrade rights.

Easy export options – populate Licensing Statements and other forms quickly with live data from License Manager.

Enterprise role-based SAM – create multiple data entry users to capture proof of entitlement in the field while ensuring only the approved compliance manager/s are able to access the current license compliance position for each vendor.