Snow License Manager

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Asset management solution for software, SaaS & IaaS

About Snow License Manager

Snow License Manager is a software asset management (SAM) solution designed to help organizations reduce the risk and complexity in terms of licensing for software, SaaS, and IaaS. The solution helps companies prevent overspending on cloud resources and software entitlements, while ensuring they are fully compliant with licensing rules.

Snow License Manager provides a unified view of the organization's cloud, software, and hardware assets, along with license entitlements and application usage metrics. The solution automatically calculates compliance positions for all software assets, whether physical or virtual, in order to help simplify datacenter licensing management. Stakeholders can access customized reports which allow them to track software usage and expenditure, as well as monitor the usage of cloud subscriptions, and other deployed assets. Users are also able to create ELPs (effective license positions) for software vendors such as IBM, Adobe, Microsoft, and more, and are provided with a consolidated view for managing multiple vendors, locations, and device types in a single interface.

Tools for financial management provide insight into what is driving cost and financial risk across the company associated with non-optimized assets and non-compliance. With reports on trends and usage patterns, users are able to forecast future costs, revise cloud subscriptions and allocation, as well as renegotiate existing contracts. Snow License Manager’s role-based, multi-user platform enables organizations to provide personalized access to SAM stakeholders from finance and governance departments, procurement, or IT, and generate management reports which are relevant to their role. Snow License Manager also includes features such as the automatic detection of unused software assets and built-in automation.


Key benefits of Snow License Manager

  • Snow License Manager enables organizations to automate processes with a built-in SKU repository, helping eliminate time-consuming manual effort.

  • The solution helps SAM managers to discover potential license optimization and deletion opportunities with accurate insight into the total investment and compliance risk for a single application or a whole product family.

  • Snow License Manager helps simplify complex datacenter licensing management with automatic calculations on compliance positions for all software including processor core licensed software on both physical and virtual resources.

  • Mitigate the risks of over- and under-licensing by applying core factors for Microsoft and Oracle, as well as minimum license assignment rules.

  • Get complete insight on what is driving software cost within the business as well as financial risk in terms of non-compliance or non-optimized assets.

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    Overall rating

    4.3 /5
    (9)
    Value for Money
    4/5
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    4/5
    Ease of Use
    4.4/5
    Customer Support
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    George
    George
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    • Industry: Food & Beverages
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 10.0 /10

    Snow License Manager is revolution in software and hardware asset management

    Reviewed on 2018/07/18

    It is my main source of data for my software asset management program at a company of 18,000...

    It is my main source of data for my software asset management program at a company of 18,000 employees.

    Pros

    I like the ease with which software and hardware can be searched and viewed at a glance. Also, the reporting module is very powerful. Reports for everyone from the PC Tech team all the way to C-level are pre-configured and ready to be exported.
    In addition to that it can act as a contract management repository and an IT finance management (ITFM) tool , with a T.C.O. of every asset in your organization.

    Cons

    Almost an overwhelming amount of data is gathered. There are so many screens and modules that it takes a while to learn and master. Also, implementation and entitlement gathering is time consuming.

    Verified Reviewer
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    • Industry: Mining & Metals
    • Company size: 51–200 Employees
    • Used Weekly for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 9.0 /10

    Manage and track license usage with ease!

    Reviewed on 2021/07/21

    Pros

    A well-developed software recognition database that shows and allows to manage products, not just a single components. The user interface is clear and intuitive.
    The program itself is easy to maintain and constantly developed with an active community.

    Cons

    The asset management part could be more developed.

    Alternatives Considered

    ManageEngine ServiceDesk Plus and ServiceNow

    Reasons for Switching to Snow License Manager

    The focus of the software is on license management.
    Maciej
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    • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Daily for 6-12 months
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    • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

    Snow License Manager is good tool for software management

    Reviewed on 2020/06/04

    This is a good tool.

    This is a good tool.

    Pros

    I really like the dashboard feature, you can customize it.

    Cons

    You can customize the dashboard, but incompliance is showed based on number of applications not installations.

    Verified Reviewer
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    • Industry: Transportation/Trucking/Railroad
    • Company size: 10,000+ Employees
    • Used Daily for 2+ years
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    • Likelihood to recommend 7.0 /10

    Good tool for Software Asset Management

    Reviewed on 2021/04/12

    The customer support - they don't reply or ask several times the same questions even though the...

    The customer support - they don't reply or ask several times the same questions even though the answer is already included in the request. Except that it's worth checking.

    Pros

    Helps to organize the licenses within the company.

    Cons

    With on-premise solution you need to wait for Daily Update Job (DUJ) (somethimes more than 24hrs) in order to see the data in Snow License Manager (SLM).

    Alternatives Considered

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    Reasons for Switching to Snow License Manager

    Due to the price.
    Joshua
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    • Used Weekly for 1+ year
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    • Likelihood to recommend 1.0 /10

    Tried to work with Snow Support for years - not helpful.

    Reviewed on 2018/06/27

    Pros

    The product does what it is suppose to do. It looks great and is a powerful tool for us. The cost was good when using a re-seller with purchase power.

    Cons

    Support is the worst. The smallest questions take days, sometimes weeks to get anything back. Initial install was flawed and took several months for SNOW to acknowledge the setup was incorrect. We hosted our environment with another company and had no access to admin tools. This caused us to rely on SNOW for answers which took an enormous amount of time to solve. Our last issue took more then 2 weeks for even after follow up emails. On the final followup email for status weeks later, we stated that we are looking at other vendors and to cancel our ticket. Within 1 hour, they closed the ticket with the comment "Customer is going to another vendor". Weeks with no response, but an hour to close the ticket.

    Hosted service has limited admin tools.

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    Snow License Manager offers the following pricing plans:

    • Starting from: US$0.01
    • Free Trial: Available

    Contact Snow Software for detailed pricing information.

    Snow License Manager has the following typical customers:

    2–10, 11–50, 51–200, 201–500, 501–1,000, 1,001–5,000

    Snow License Manager supports the following languages:

    English

    Snow License Manager supports the following devices:

    Android (Mobile), iPhone (Mobile), iPad (Mobile)

    Snow License Manager integrates with the following applications:

    ServiceNow

    Snow License Manager offers the following support options:

    Phone Support

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