ComplianceConsole Professional Edition gives you all the capability to ensure you are compliant with vendor licensing requirements and manage licences effectively on a day to day basis. The time it now takes to establish a reconciled position has been greatly reduced, saving you time and freeing resources. It’s powerful capability enhances your ability to manage software licences in your estate and achieve the tangible benefits of Software Asset Management:
Powerful Compliance Engine - ComplianceConsole’s Compliance Engine brings the rules and algorithms required for a high level of automation in matching software to licences. Upgrade and downgrade rights are automatically calculated.
Bulk import of Licence Data – Multiple sources of licence data can be automatically imported and matched to the software library.
Data Connectors – ComplianceConsole has data connectors for the leading discovery technologies including but not limited to:
Data can also be imported from manual or bespoke data sources. Getting to grips with your inventory data has never been easier.
Community Software Library – Recognise the software you have installed and keep your library up to date in ComplianceConsole. All software taught, recognised and verified as accurate by Concorde’s software library custodian, is made available, helping to drive down the time it takes to establish an accurate software audit.
Multi-Level SAM – ComplianceConsole allows reconciliation and reporting to organisational or geographical level, and then to individual cost codes or departments. It is now possible to report a compliance position for a named vendor to a region or a department, or for a department within a division. Greater accountability for software licensing is now possible to lower levels, which in turn has helped many ComplianceConsole customers drive the benefits of SAM throughout their organisations.
Meaningful Data – ComplianceConsole’s Dashboard and easy reporting capability is designed to provide the data needed by different stakeholders in the organisations. SAM administrators can drill down to see what products are under licensed, while senior management and executives can see licence exposure in financial terms. Easy to understand trend analysis is also available, to allow improvements to be tracked and real time savings to be recorded.
Using this service has allowed us to rationalise our software assets and we now no longer worry about vendor audits.
Markus Grad - CEO, StockshiftersCopyright © 2009 Concorde.