License Compliance Suite

Have you ever wanted more from your Installed vs. Used report? How about the ability to separate the report to show Standard or Professional version of Microsoft applications?

Check out this best practice document from the Business Software Alliance, A.K.A. The people who bust companies for software piracy. It contains some easy and obvious best practices for Software Management.

With 16,000 employees, the mission of Sutherland Global Services is to outsource their client's business processes so they can focus on core competencies. Pamela Martz manages a couple of key Sutherland teams: the Global Service Desk and Network Operations Center. She's done some amazing things to streamline the process. (And we've got the Juicy details.)

Q:
We have the CMS Level 1 and Software License Compliance Suite. The purpose of the SLC Suite was to enter software license purchase information into the NS dbase and have that license information check against the software information collected in the Inventory Solution. How do I configure the Software License Compliance Suite to simply allow me to enter software purchase info (software name, date purchased, quantity, etc.) and view a report that shows me my total number of purchased software licenses versus my total number of installed licenses for one or more software applications?