IBM Z® Software Asset Management is a solution designed to help organizations effectively manage and optimize their software assets on the IBM Z mainframe platform. It provides tools and capabilities to track, monitor and control software usage, licenses and costs associated with software running on IBM Z systems.
IBM Z® Software Asset Management provides asset discovery, monitoring and reporting helping you track the usage of IBM Z and third-party products. It enables full lifecycle management of hardware and software assets, including licenses and contracts.
The solution helps you avoid license compliance penalties with a comprehensive audit trail for effective license management. It also offers an API for integrating software details with external tools. Also, support for SCRT Tailored Fit Pricing with new reports has been added.
Enables organizations to optimize their license allocation and reduce unnecessary expenditures on underutilized software by providing detailed insights into software usage.
Helps identify and address potential risks associated with software compliance and usage, thereby protecting the organization from legal and financial repercussions.
Automates many of the manual processes involved in software asset management, freeing up IT resources for more strategic initiatives.
Generates detailed, interactive reports with hyperlink drill-downs for more in-depth analysis. Enhanced Analyzer reports provide views of machine inventory, storage devices and resources. These reports help ensure adherence to licensing terms, helping to avoid compliance violations and penalties.
Monitors software usage in real-time, providing insights that help plan for future capacity needs and optimize resource allocation. The solution tracks software licenses, offering a full audit trail to help ensure compliance with vendor agreements and preventing overuse or underlicensing.
Offers high-speed scanning and in-house application tagging to generate a comprehensive inventory of all software products, including their versions and usage metrics. The software also tracks changes, reporting any added or deleted products since the last scan.
Automatically discovers and identifies both IBM® and third-party software running on the IBM Z platform, helping ensure a complete and up-to-date inventory.
Optionally share software asset details with key stakeholder in external application interfaces. This allows for enhanced integration and collaboration by enabling other systems or tools to access and use the software asset information managed within IBM Z Software Asset Management.
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