Enterprises today, use a variety of software applications to keep their business running. While most organizations have stringent usage policies of commercial applications, they tend to manually reconcile the software usages. Manual reconciliation is error prone and they lose their reputation and money (in the form of penalty) when they get caught. Therefore, Software License Management cannot be taken very lightly. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) recently has announced that over 1000 firms have been penalized for using unlicensed software.
“UK businesses caught using unlicensed software have paid out £2 million ($3.1 million) in ‘settlements’ in the first six months of 2010, the Business Software Alliance (BSA) industry watchdog has announced. The figure for Europe and the Middle-East was £6.5 million, which comprised £4 million to correctly license software, and a further £2.5 million in additional costs.”
Ref: http://news.techworld.com/applications/3237949/1000-firms-caught-using-unlicensed-software/?olo=rss
Desktop Central can help them to be proactive in managing their software licenses. With Desktop Central, they can:
- Get the list of all the software used in their network and categorize them as commercial and non-commercial.
- Add the license details of the commercial software and associate them to resources
- Get a software compliance report based on the license information
- Get notified when they exceed their licensed limit
- View the software usage details in each computer like, rarely used, occasionally used, or, frequently used
- Uninstall software that are rarely or no longer used
- Get the list of software whose licenses have to be renewed
In addition to Software License Management, you can also use Desktop Central to
- Deploy software to users and computers,
- Automate patch deployment to computers in the network and keep them up to date with patches,
- Inventory software and hardware details of the network computers,
- Automatically uninstall software that are prohibited to use in your network
- Access remote computers to view/troubleshoot,
- Restrict USB device usage & Configure windows desktop and applications
Cheers !
