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cnharris1
Kilo Sage

‎06-07-2018 10:09 AM

How do I got about using the license calculations feature under Software Asset Management? For example, we get all our data from SAP and I want to do a count of how many Adobe licenses we have throughout the organization.

 

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mikewhalley
ServiceNow Employee
ServiceNow Employee
In response to cnharris1

‎06-10-2018 06:25 PM

Corey,

In SAM Professional there are two elements to calculating licensing positions and involves reconciling purchased rights (software entitlements) with consumed rights (discovered software installations).

OOTB, software entitlements are associated with a specific software model and automatically reconciled with discovery models (aggregation of  software installation records) on a weekly basis - this is schedule can be updated if necessary. Also, you can run ad-hoc software reconciliations whenever you want.

To answer your question, you will need to import all of your license purchases from SAP into SAM Professional to provide the software entitlement data that I refer to. Since I don't know what discovery systems you are using, I can't comment specifically on the software installation aspect.

Also, please note that in a future SN release, the intention is to provide a native integration that connects SAM Pro to Adobe Cloud Management to obtain company subscriptions for different Adobe cloud services such as Creative, Experience and Document and automatically reconcile this subscription information with discovered installations.

Hope this helps.

Mike.

 

 

 

 

 

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jhon
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‎06-21-2018 09:55 AM

I also have the same queries, but the way mikewhalley has to define the whole process I am impressed. I already have posted this forum, but sadly no one can reply my question. But now I am able to understand how to calculate license. At first, I go to Microsoft edge customer service for help, they produce me the basic service.

 
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Runjay Patel
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‎12-15-2020 04:33 AM

Software Asset Management (SAM - Pro)

 

Check out this video, it will clear all your doubts and help you to understand Software Asset Management (SAM - Pro) in details.

Link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIGcZxQaeEoh0bObsaDpMeYk2N2QXAtBK

It will help you resolve below queries:

  • SAM Offers / Challenges
  • Deep Understanding about SAM Terminology
  • IT Assets & Configuration Items
  • IT And Software Asset Lifecycle
  • SAM Optimization Checklist
  • Plugins For Software Asset Management
  • Software Entitlement
    • Software Entitlement Import
    • Benefits of using software entitlements
    • To download to entitlement import template
    • Entitlement Import Process
    • Entitlement Import Errors
    • Entitlement Review and Clear Errors
  • Software Asset Management (SAM) Lab
    • Play with SAM Roles
    • Upload Software Model/ Product Catalog
    • Various way to do Normalization
    • Creating a Custom Products
    • Reconciliation
    • Understand Entitlement Metrics
    • Software Usage
    • Reclamation