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The Benefits of Data-Driven Software License Management Strategies

Name: The Benefits of Data-Driven Software License Management Strategies
Uploaded: 2024-02-06T05:00:13+00:00
Duration: 40 s
Channel: Mike Austin
Description: A short talk by Mike Austin about the importance of discovering software inventory and usage data to support software license management. Emphasizes…

6 Feb 2024 · 1 min

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A short talk by Mike Austin about the importance of discovering software inventory and usage data to support software license management. Emphasizes discovering software titles, versions, publishers, and non-inventory metrics such as user counts and API call volumes to measure compliance with license metrics and contracts.

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I also need to be able to discover software information. Right. So titles and versions and publishers, you know, those sorts of things. And on the discovery side, I would also put things that maybe aren't what you would consider inventory. Right. So if you think of, you know, licenses that are based on user counts, I need to be able to discover users. And how do I do that? Right. If you think about license metrics that are based on, say, API calls, I need to know how to discover how many API calls are occurring so that I can see how we're performing against our contract.