SAM PRO: Software Loans

[armandosanchez]

Hi All

     More and more Software vendors are moving forward to the new business model of Subscriptions, and this is causing us to acquire licenses for each person in the company and increase the cost and more management to reuse them due to the company where I'm working is a large international,

     I think Loan Software should be a good option for most of users who need the software just for a short period; this will reduce the quantity of SaaS Subscriptions because will be reclaimed at the expiration date and reused efficiently.

I have SAM Pro and am looking for an option in the last release (Washington) to loan and manage automatically Software loans without success; does anyone know if there is a loan option in SAM Pro as HAM Pro has?

Thank in advance for your help.

Regards

[Mike Tharp]

I am not aware of any loaner capability for software. An entitlement is either available or not available for use. You would have to allocate an available entitlement and then later remove it on a schedule using a custom flow or script execution.

[armandosanchez]

Thank you Mike for your replay, I'm looking for something more automated end-to-end, this means, the user can create his software loan request using a catalog item (Establishing a short-term period ), this can be tracked by any "Software Loan module" and when the expiration date is reached, a reclamation Candidate record is created and triggered automatically to reclaim the license.

This can help a lot