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Software Usage Analysis

The Software Use Analysis service delivers the ability to identify an organisation’s licensed and unlicensed software. This service will dramatically reduce the time required to conduct a comprehensive software asset inventory for license reconciliation or compliance purposes.

The solution correlates the inventory data it gathers with its built-in Software Identification Catalog to create an inventory data warehouse. The Software Identification Catalog simplifies the identification of specific software installations with information on 5,000 publishers, 5,000 software products and more than 105,000 application signatures out of the box. Continually updated via a cloud-based update service with information on commercial applications and publishers, the catalog is also easily customisable to include tracking of home grown and proprietary applications.

Using the service contracts can be created that show Licensed, Unlicensed and Unentitled computers for each piece of software.

Key Features

  • Core Tivoli Infrastructure Management
  • Agent Management
  • Bespoke application usage tracking and standard for all applications
  • This analysis contains information about when applications have been first and last used on endpoints.
  • After activating this analysis, you will see the property All Application Usage Information, which includes the following information:
    • Name of Application
    • First Start Time
    • Last Start Time
    • Last Time Seen
    • Running
    • Total Duration
    • Total Run Count
  • Full windows executable scanning and software recognition using IBM software catalogue.

This allows companies to gain visibility of their software license usage while reducing the amount of time and effort required to generate reports that show compliance and overall software usage. The solution enables significant benefits including the ability to more accurately plan software budgets based on inventory and usage trends.

The solution can also help facilitate planning. For example, when organisations are migrating from Microsoft Office 2003 to Office 2010, Tivoli Endpoint Manager can help administrators quickly determine which endpoints meet the prerequisites, and which endpoints need hardware upgrades such as added RAM.