LicenseAnalyzer Plug-in
LicensePlanner
Fair and accurate chargeback and financial integration solution within your organization
LicensePlanner™ is a plugin for
LicenseAnalyzer. Provides functionalities to manage, plan and optimize licensed software applications and license agreements. It can help to build insight to better allocate software maintenance cost using a system that allows consolidation of annual data on the estimated, budgeted and actual spending.
Benefits
Manage software licenses using complete, detailed, and easily accessible vendor information
Financial integration with advanced invoice generation
Aids budget management with detailed monitoring of estimated and actual software maintenance cost
Reports
Enable IT chargeback
Supports flexible chargeback model such as combination of fixed base rate and overdraft rate. Allocation models based on either usage, time, users, project or sessions.
License Feature to Price Book Mapping
Enable fair and accurate chargeback by mapping usage of license features to line items in the vendor’s price book.
Advanced Invoicing
Set up automatic invoicing.
Chargeback per Project
Track usage per project and setup chargeback accordingly.
Software Contract Management
Keep track of vendor data, application information and entitlements in one place.
What's new in
LicensePlanner
- Chargeback per project
- Map usage to features/modules per vendor
- Software Contract Management
Solutions using LicensePlanner
Optimize License Usage
Track and recover unused software licenses
Discover opportunities for optimization by identifying the true active usage of your software applications and automatically harvesting idle licenses.
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IT Chargeback
Simplify audit and enable IT chargeback
Implement a fair chargeback system based upon actual usage data which can be broken down to departments, business units, projects, user groups or individuals.
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Vendor Negotiation
Negotiate software licenses based on facts
Take advantage of collected data to be better equipped for contract renewals.
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