Tivoli License Compliance Manager

A software asset management solution, provides key information to help ensure compliance

• Automatically identify software use activity to help in efforts to manage software license compliance in the increasingly complex distributed software licensing environment.
• Identify software inventory with no or low use to help reduce unnecessary license fees and maintenance costs.
• Monitor software use and related growth to help users plan cost effectively for future capacity needs.
• Help make funds available for software projects which can help keep your organization competitive and give business units the value they expect.

IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager for IBM Software V2.3 is a subset of IBM Tivoli License Manager V2.3 and used by customers who choose sub-capacity licensing to monitor and report on their use of selected distributed IBM products.

What's New in IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager V2.3?

IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager V2.3 helps companies to:

• See software use activity across their environment.
• Verify compliance with increasingly complex software licenses.
• Plan smarter for the future.
• Improve efforts to comply with software contracts and regulatory mandates.
• Meet audit requirements for software use activity with relevant data.
• Minimize software costs by optimizing software use and deployment across the enterprise.
• Generate cost savings by automating the manual process of data collection needed continually for license management, budget planning, contract negotiations, and renewals.
• Verify that businesses pay only for the software they need.
• Increase productivity, and with the knowledge gained, allow businesses to plan for future software deployments and upgrades that match resources as demand grows.
• Optimize software migrations or license model changes, data center and server consolidations, and out-sourcing and in-sourcing events.

New in IBM Tivoli License Compliance Manager V2.3:

• Improved license management.
• IBM Value Unit pricing model support.
• HP Integrity VM support.

IBM Tivoli® License Compliance Manager V2.3 helps you maintain an up-to-date inventory of your distributed software assets (Windows™, Linux™, UNIX® and i5/OS™ (OS/400®), which can assist your efforts to comply with regulatory and vendor license requirements. The product also reveals who uses applications and by how much they are used, to provide the insight which can help you to eliminate unneeded or redundant software. You also gain the insight that can help you make smarter financial decisions about software purchases and related expenses.

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Features, advantages and benefits

Features	Advantages	Benefits
Web-based architecture	IBM WebSphere® infrastructure leverages HTTP/s protocols for secure management of disconnected systems	Complete license management through a simple Web-browser interface, regardless of location
Software lifecycle management	Link software inventory and use activity to product entitlements and contracts	Easily reconcile how much software is deployed and used for common license procurement activities
Extensive license model support	Able to manage several types of software licensing models, including CPU-based, User-based, Machine-based, Concurrent-use, Multi-use, Sub-capacity use, and more	Tracks software deployment and use activity according to the specific licensing model subscribed…key to effective license management

• Not being able to verify license compliance which limits the ability of the business to use such information to negotiate better software contracts.

• Keeping unnecessary licenses in a resource constrained environment.

• Potentially facing heavy fines and public embarrassment if improperly licensed software is cited by a watchdog group.

• Generate significant cost savings by automating the manual process of data collection needed continually for budget planning, contract negotiations and renewals. Helping to verify that businesses pay only for the software they need. License management software also strengthens the position of your business when negotiating software licenses by providing a complete view of software needs across the enterprise.

• Guard against software license compliance problems - The embarrassment of not meeting your contractual licensing conditions and the unplanned cost of license compliance payments can be severe. Numerous nonprofit organizations are working aggressively to make sure businesses don't use software illegally.

• Increase productivity - With the knowledge to properly plan for future software deployments and upgrades and match resources with demand.

• Optimize software migrations and/or license model changes, data center consolidations, out-sourcing and in-sourcing events, as well as mergers and acquisitions. In other words, all restructuring events which require strong management to ensure efficient use of enterprise resources.