Most organizations struggle to keep up with the paperwork to determine if they are in compliance with their software licenses or actually over-licensed and wasting money. Traditionally, this important aspect of software asset management has been a painful process, requiring multiple spreadsheets and data sources, along with significant manual effort. And, the next time you need to perform a compliance self-audit, it is almost as much work as the first time!

For those ready to stop this cycle, Eracent's Enterprise Entitlements Management product (EnterpriseEM) provides the functionality necessary to truly begin license and compliance management in an efficient and repeatable way. With built in knowledge of software licensing and the issues around managing those licenses, any size of organization can benefit from EnterpriseEM.

An “entitlement” is a specific right to use a product that is permitted through the specific language of the license agreement, such as your contract. Eracent's EnterpriseEM manages this right to use, or entitlement, so that software asset management is no longer limited to manual license management and compliance efforts. While most software asset management tools only reflect an inventory of installations, EnterpriseEM not only helps you manage your license information and reconcile the totals, but goes even further to compare your total entitlements for your software products to what is actually installed. With built-in flexibility regarding sources of data, EnterpriseEM is the tool of choice for software asset managers.

Key Features

• Aggregates purchase information
• Translates discovered data
• Built in software license savvy
• Conditional rules to meet your needs

Major Benefits

• Increased effectiveness of license management
• Broader scope of in-depth license management
• Sustainable and repeatable processes
• Delivers cost savings

Solution Functionality

• Common naming conventions for purchase data
• Software entitlements roll up and summarization
• Reconciliation of installation to entitlement
• Web based reporting
• Security