Tivoli License Compliance Manager

Features, advantages and benefits

Business benefits

The business environment is changing rapidly. It's more challenging than ever to know exactly what software your company owns, is using, and what it needs.

With the proliferation of mergers and the increasing globalization of distributed IT infrastructures, making sure that everyone is licensed for the software they need and use can be a daunting task. The consequences of mismanaged software licenses include:

• 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.

IBM license management software offerings help companies achieve a total software asset management solution, enabling planning, management and optimization of enterprise wide software assets. With advanced software inventory, usage monitoring, contract and reporting capabilities, businesses can find out exactly what software licenses they have, which ones are being used and which ones they need. In addition, license management software help organizations to efficiently manage the contractual and financial details of software contracts and agreements.

IBM license management software can help organizations:

• 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.

IBM license management software offerings include: Tivoli License Compliance Manager for distributed environments and Tivoli License Compliance Manager for z/OS. Add Tivoli Asset Management for IT to enable effective management of the IT asset lifecycle, to lower cost, mitigate license and regulatory compliance risk, and better align IT with business goals.

Learn how Tivoli License Compliance Manager can advance your shift from systems management to the more advanced IT service management. IT Service Management will help you to make ITIL actionable, reduce costs, manage complexity, and ensure regulatory compliance.

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