Software License Optimization Dashboard
Key Points
- The dashboard integrates IBM Control Desk and IBM Endpoint Manager to give software asset managers a quick view of software usage, helping lower licensing costs and audit exposure.
- A left‑column portlet highlights entitled software that isn’t being used, indicating licenses that can be reclaimed and re‑allocated.
- Another left‑column portlet warns when license allocations exceed available capacity, flagging a potential audit risk that can be examined in detail.
- Additional left‑column portlets reconcile discovered versus allocated capacity and list contracts that are close to expiring, supporting renewal decisions or planned sunsetting of software.
- Right‑column portlets display prohibited software found on assets for automated remediation and provide a vendor‑breakdown view to aid future volume‑discount or enterprise‑license negotiations.
Full Transcript
# Software License Optimization Dashboard **Source:** [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StoYulVSkR8](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StoYulVSkR8) **Duration:** 00:01:29 ## Summary - The dashboard integrates IBM Control Desk and IBM Endpoint Manager to give software asset managers a quick view of software usage, helping lower licensing costs and audit exposure. - A left‑column portlet highlights entitled software that isn’t being used, indicating licenses that can be reclaimed and re‑allocated. - Another left‑column portlet warns when license allocations exceed available capacity, flagging a potential audit risk that can be examined in detail. - Additional left‑column portlets reconcile discovered versus allocated capacity and list contracts that are close to expiring, supporting renewal decisions or planned sunsetting of software. - Right‑column portlets display prohibited software found on assets for automated remediation and provide a vendor‑breakdown view to aid future volume‑discount or enterprise‑license negotiations. ## Sections - [00:00:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=StoYulVSkR8&t=0s) **Software Asset Management Dashboard Overview** - The dashboard integrates IBM Control Desk and Endpoint Manager data to highlight unused entitled software, overallocation warnings, capacity reconciliation, expiring contracts, prohibited software detections, and vendor breakdowns, helping reduce license costs and audit exposure. ## Full Transcript
this is an example of a dashboard that
may be used by a software asset manager
to provide a quick view into Vital
Information about the system software
Assets in order to reduce license cost
and audit
exposure the information found on this
dashboard leverages some of the
Integrations with IBM control desk in
order to import discovered software
assets and usage data by applications
like IBM endpoint
manager the first portlet in the left
column shows the entitled software that
is not in use based on software usage
analysis this presents an opportunity to
reclaim licenses that could be leveraged
by other users the next portlet shows a
warning for licenses that have been
allocated over the existing capacity
presenting a potential audit risk to
view the additional details of the audit
risk the report in a third portlet will
help reconcile the discovered capacity
versus the allocated capacity the final
portlet in the left column shows
contracts that are about to expire this
allows the software asset manager to
make decisions to renew the contract or
begin planning to Sunset the usage and
begin software
removal the first portlet in the right
column shows prohibited software within
the organization but has been discovered
on its assets this information can be
used to automate removal and any
remediation processes the final portlet
shows a breakdown of the list of vendors
that provide software this can be useful
in aing future planning purposes for
volume discounts or Enterprise licenses