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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Until not so long time ago an SPLA tool was just a nice dream for most of the service providers. There was a glimpse of hope for everyone when Microsoft announced SIL Aggregator. But that glimpse is just a glimpse and the market was still waiting for that SPLA reporting tool which can make them sleep well. Some weak attempts from other software vendors were on the news for their short moment of glory, but that was all. The major challenges are still unsolved.
It doesn’t matter how good a marketing description sounds. If an SPLA Reporting Tool does not hit the complexity of a SaaS environment that awesome marketing cannot help at all. Most of the SPLA Tools were either only making inventory, or just compliance, or maybe a little bit of both. In some cases the end result was promising, but the deployment was so tedious or even impossible on most of the PaaS or SaaS. It is basically impossible to ask a Service Provider to reshape his environment if he wants to have a little hope for compliance.
As you probably found out already (if not learn about SPLA Manager here), SPLA Manager is a dedicated tool for accurate inventory and automated calculation. On top of that, it comes with many reports in order to give an eye-bird view of all SPLA related devices in your environment.
A complete tool that can do all the steps, from inventory and license calculation to reporting.
Once the SPLA Manager is installed and configured, data will start coming in. Then a preorder calculation can be triggered. That will offer a glimpse of the how many licenses are needed to cover all the installations in your environment.
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