SAM Collaboration

Typically, a SAM initiative is not the sole responsibility of one individual; it takes a collaborative effort from staff across the Finance, Procurement and IT departments.

License Manager can be configured to allow an unlimited number of authorised users from across the organisation to take different roles and responsibilities appropriate to their job function and location. This leads to a faster and more effective approach to managing software licensing.

License Manager user roles comprise:

Data Entry Users
Usually a finance or procurement clerk, this user is responsible for entering information on purchased software licenses in the form of Proof of Entitlement records. Data Entry Users are not able to associate purchased items with vendor catalogs or reconcile licenses against discovered software.

Administrators
Administrators have all of the rights above, plus the ability to configure the system for data collection, user management etc.

Software Managers
Normally a manager-level IT resource, the Software Manager can take the Proof of Entitlement records already resident in the system and reconcile these first against vendor-recognised software SKU's and then against the actual discovered software from the network.

By managing users according to their role in the SAM initiative, License Manager dramatically eliminates the chances of mistakes in the matching of procurement records to vendor-recognised SKU's, and thus the mis-reconciliation of software.