License Broker
Eliminate the risks of license non-compliance for your entire system
Save on software costs
Software License Metering includes both the passive process of monitoring software license usage and the active enforcement of license policies. Simple, cost-effective means for organizations to eliminate the risks of non-compliance to software license agreements, with the added benefit of being able to save on software costs.
Introducing License Broker™
A cost-effective means of tracking compliance in real-time - and staying legal - with software license agreements. License Broker™ is state-of-the-art license metering technology that actively monitors application usage in real-time and enforces license policies, ensuring your institution both complies with software license agreements (thereby avoiding litigation) and is not paying for unused, often expensive licenses through in-built reporting. While Integrated Auditor™ tracks your IT assets on demand or as scheduled by the administrator, License Broker™ goes farther and enforces license policies in real-time on software use to ensure ongoing compliance.
What is the difference between audit and metering tools?
Audit tools take a static snapshot of a desktop's software to provide an inventory of applications installed. They are useful as input to the process of standardizing the operating environment. However, being static, they are a labor-intensive way of ensuring ongoing license compliance as the audit results need to be manually compared against actual software purchased. The process then needs to be repeated periodically. Audit tools may be suitable for organizations with less than 20 desktops - note however that the audit results represent compliance status at a given instance only (i.e. does not provide assurance or protection against license copying in between periods).
Metering tools such as System Integrators License Broker and Component License Broker on the other hand are dynamic - they actively detect and monitor applications being run by end-users (and components these applications in turn use) in real-time. Metering tools provide protection against the introduction of pirated software whilst allowing Administrators to control software usage and enforce licensing policies. In addition, metering tools provide the historic software usage data required to accurately project future software licensing needs (and hence procure significant savings by only buying what you need).
What risks am I facing for non-compliance to software license agreements?
IT Managers own the responsibility of ensuring their organization is operating within the legal parameters of their software license agreements and are not using pirated software. Software audits by either vendors or industry watch-dogs can and do happen. The penalties and ramifications of being caught are serious and widespread - from heavy fines to harmful publicity and damages to reputation. By simply employing a metering solution these risks can be avoided.
