The SPLA Program is quite different from a traditional Perpetual or Subscription agreement, mainly because there are no acquired or fixed number of entitlements, setting limitations on usage.
Therefore, it is not the history of acquired license entitlements in relation to the number of installations, but the current need for licenses in a complex and ever-changing environment that is important.
A traditional SAM tool is built to keep track of the balance between acquired entitlements and usage, typically for the contractual period and beyond.
SPLA compliance is about ordering licenses based on the actual license need per reporting month.
An inventory tool will give you the actual numbers on installation/access which is the foundation for calculating your licensing needs, but it does not assist you in keeping track of the rules and requirements from the SPLA agreement(s) or SPUR documents, especially the use rights which may change through your SPLA agreement period – or across several agreements, if you have more than one.
At the end of the day what you need for running an SPLA business is support for the full process, including compliance documentation for Inventory, License calculations and what you have ordered to give the full overview.
SPLA Manager is tailor-made for the sole purpose of doing this – and nothing else.
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LicenseWatch (SPLA Manager) and Insight (www.insight.com) today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement where Insight will distribute LicenseWatch SPLA Manager solution as the primary solution for Managed IT Service Providers in Europe.
While investigating the options in the market for a tool for SPLA Service Providers, we did a presentation of SPLA Manager for some of our partners in a specific country to get their opinion of the value. The interest was huge and as SPLA manager seems to have the most comprehensive offering of features, and the fact that it is developed specially for the SPLA program made the decision very easy.
In relation with the agreement all our staff, working with the SPLA program, have been invited for training sessions and they are thrilled that we now can offer this product to support our Service Providers in making more efficient and accurate reporting while saving a lot of time by doing so.
The promise of building compliance documentation along the way and for future audits is a welcomed bonus to the majority of Service providers – not because anyone intents to pay less than they should, but without the proper tools reporting can be difficult and document what, when and why in relation to an audit can be a daunting and resource intensive task.
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