FrontRange Solutions, a developer of infrastructure management and software asset management (SAM) solutions, today announced the launch of FrontRange Licence Manager [1] 3.1, which introduces the ability to help organisations better manage their Microsoft Enterprise Agreements and other volume licensing arrangements.
For organisations that actively use Microsoft SMS 2003, FrontRange Licence Manager 3.1 includes a new data collector that can take software audit information from the ubiquitous systems management tool. The integration between Licence Manager and its default software audit source, FrontRange Discovery, has also been enhanced.
Scott Johnson, product manager, FrontRange Solutions, South Africa, commented: “With software budgets at best static, organisations need to focus on how they can better manage the software on their networks. Licence Manager is designed to help organisations drive out unnecessary costs by giving both IT and financial stakeholders the visibility and control needed to eliminate rogue purchasing, poor deployment practices and ineffective management of volume licence agreements.”
FrontRange Licence Manager 3.1 also features a new bulk data import tool, which can take licensing information from multiple vendors and contracts, and load this into the licence repository automatically, presenting a significant administrative saving to the end-user organisation.
FrontRange Licence Manager is an integral part of the FrontRange SAM Suite solution, which comprises FrontRange SAM Essentials for project management, FrontRange Discovery for audit, FrontRange Licence Manager for licence recording and reconciliation, and Net Install for packaging and deploying applications onto the network.
Alongside the core development of the FrontRange Licence Manager solution, FrontRange Solutions has also enhanced the unique 'Nexus' hosted licence database, which automatically validates the licensing information entered by end-users (normalising data where appropriate to ensure consistency and reduce discrepancies between customer and vendor licence information). The Nexus now features over nine titles from vendors such as Microsoft, Symantec, CA, McAfee, Novell, Autodesk and Adobe.
An upgrade to FrontRange Licence Manager 3.1 is available to all supported Licence Manager and SAM Suite customers at no additional cost. For more information or pricing, contact your local FrontRange sales office or channel partner.
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FrontRange Solutions develops software and services that growing mid-size firms and distributed enterprises rely on every day to build great customer relationships and deliver high-quality customer service. The company applies a unique combination of innovation and automation with a standards-based approach to simplify core business processes, including: IT service management; customer relationship and sales force management; and PC life cycle management. More than 150 000 of the world's best-known brands use FrontRange offerings to quickly improve their interactions with external and internal clients and achieve better business results. For more information, call 800.776.7889, visit http://www.frontrange.com or follow 'FrontRangeSols' on Twitter.
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