Introduction

Software Services Overview

License Reconciliation Service

Insight:LicenseAdvisor

e-Procurement

Licencing Information

Adobe

Business Objects

Citrix

Cyberlink

F-Secure

IBM

McAfee

Microsoft Open

Microsoft Enterprise

Microsoft SPLA

Mindjet

Nuance

Oracle

Sophos

Symantec

TechSmith

Trend Micro

VMware

Insight:LicenseAdvisor

Insight:LicenseAdvisor (formerly Media Plane software) is Insight’s own dynamic SAM framework and process tool that gives organisations the ability to track, analyse and manage their own software assets from procurement through deployment. Clients have access to their data anytime they need it.

• Integrate procurement data, inventory data, distribution technology, end-user requests and workflow
• Meet Sarbanes-Oxley compliance regulations
• Control maverick purchasing and overbuying
• Re-allocate licenses as they become available through employee movement, acquisition or divestiture
• Continuously manage license compliance, entitlements and consumption
• Reduce IT administrative intervention in software lifecycles

Example of a Typical Set-Up:

• Insight:LicenseAdvisor installs on a server behind the corporate firewall
• Security roles are created
• Connections are configured to work with the existing employee directory, employee-portal, workflow service, and existing deployment tools
• Purchase history and current software license allocations are loaded into the system
• New distribution is mapped to the licenses, and old distribution mechanisms arelocked down
• Employee entitlement data is populated, and the system is ready to work