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Mastering Software License Compliance - Episode 2

Name: Mastering Software License Compliance - Episode 2
Uploaded: 2023-08-22T15:00:43+00:00
Duration: 52 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: Mike Austin advises that software license compliance should start with the software contract and that SAM tools (e.g., Snow) are useful but not a silver…

22 Aug 2023 · 1 min

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Mike Austin advises that software license compliance should start with the software contract and that SAM tools (e.g., Snow) are useful but not a silver bullet. He highlights a common limitation: some SAM tools are "set-and-forget" and may confirm compliance but not detect if licensing is optimized when configurations change.

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The place to start is definitely within your software contract. Yeah, Snow is, Snow is definitely a great tool, Jared. It's definitely, we use it quite a bit. We, we support our clients on it. There are some things it can't do as well. And I'll talk, I'll talk a little bit about that right now because that's, that's a good point. Like this whole point of. A lot of people think that a SAM tool, you know, is a silver bullet. And it definitely is a part of the solution. The challenge with some of the SAM tools and they all work different. So I'm going to make a generic statement, not specifically the Snow here. Sometimes they're set and forget. And so when we get into, you know, you can go in and set and, and what I mean by that is especially complex licensing, like server based and things like that is you kind of set the licenses and then they stay with that. But if your configuration changes, it's just going to take a look at your license assignment, make sure you're still compliant. It's not going to look and see if you're optimized.