Interaction with other Maximo IT applications
License Management in Maximo IT is not a self-contained application. It touches upon and interacts with many other applications and processes.
For example, the purchase of additional licenses (for compliance purposes) may well involve interaction with:
- Contracts – To confirm existing terms or, if needed, to create or modify a software contract
- Purchasing – To create a Purchase Request and/or new Purchase Order, associated to the software contract
- Receiving – To receive the licenses to a virtual storeroom and increase available license capacity
- Discovery tools – Accuracy and completeness of discovered software assets to be associated with allocated licenses
- Integration Composer – Import of data from discovery tools into Maximo IT, and any modifications of mapping schema needed to ensure import of non Out Of The Box (OOTB) data for managing specific licenses
- Item Master – Define in Maximo IT software items that are stocked in your storerooms, which can then be associated to software contracts and licenses
- Integration Framework – Bulk import of licenses at initial deployment
- Work Orders – Reservation and allocation of licenses needed to support a work order
- Service Catalog and Service Request – Requesting a license via a Self Service portal
- Decommissioning/Retirement of hardware assets – As part of this function, ensuring return to availability pool of software licenses associated with software installed on decommissioned assets
In small scale deployments, multiple application tasks (e.g. contracts and purchasing in addition to license management) may be filled by one person or small team. In mid-sized and especially large scale environments – and in those organizations where change and control management procedures warrant – these roles may span several separate departments with which the License Manager would have to communicate and coordinate (through work flows created with the powerful Workflow Designer available OOTB in Maximo IT).