Snow SAM Platform - Features

About Snow SAM Platform

Snow addresses all aspects of SAM by providing an integrated solution to manage inventory, data
consolidation, software intelligence and license management so that organizations can be assured of
comprehensive coverage for all their licensing requirements. Not only is the entire IT estate covered
regardless of the devices in use but each asset can be managed throughout its entire lifecycle.

Snow License Manager is the central information hub of Snow’s advanced Software Asset Management
(SAM) platform – providing a unified view of all software and hardware assets, license entitlements and
application usage metrics. Software audit data is automatically translated into commercial software
product information using

Snow’s unique Software Recognition Service. Regardless of the source of inventory data, license
entitlements or organizational data, a key benefit of the

Snow SAM platform is the ability to turn this raw data into clean, consistent actionable intelligence that
can be used by a variety of stakeholders to make informed decisions.

This intelligence enables organizations to create Effective License Positions (ELPs) for all software
vendors, track software license expenditure, monitor usage of deployed assets and identify
opportunities to reduce licensing and support costs.

The transparency of software consumption across a single application or an application family makes it
obvious what is used, when and where, enabling smart optimization opportunities

Features

Following are the main features which Snow solution provides. Snow toolset enables functionality for
customer as explained in below features. This list covers most areas but the features are not limited to
the below list only.

Discovery
Complete asset discovery
Reveals blind spots on the network
Comprehensive coverage – from computers to servers, mobiles
and tablets, to all connected devices on network such as routers,
printers or firewalls
Inventory/ audit data
Near real time information about hardware and software assets
across environment
Exhaustive technology coverage – from Windows 95 to Windows
10 as well as Mac OS X, Red HAT, Debian, Ubuntu, Oracle
Enterprise Linux, AIX, Solaris, supports Android, iOS and
Windows mobile.
Accurate and detailed hardware inventory, Software inventory,
software metering to provide ability to discover and track all
software installed
Powerful Software Recognition

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Automated cleansing and normalization
Largest software recognition database growing by more than
6000 applications and 600 publishers every month
Ensures recognition of titles, version, edition, metric, license
type
Recognition of suits and bundles
Applications grouping into families to automatically identify
upgrade or downgrade rights
Classification of applications based on UNSPSC standards
With more than 6000 customers on Snow SAM platform, SRS
provides the fastest recognition of new software.
Multi platform and inventory agnostic
Built in SKU repository
Datacenter Configuration Tracking
Establish relations between servers in datacenter and between
virtual machines and host devices.
Supports multiple virtualization technologies including Microsoft
(Hyper-V, RDS, App-V), VMWare (vSphere, Horizon, Thin App),
Citrix (Xen Server, Xen App) and Red Hat Enterprise
Virtualization
Snow for Cloud
Automated discovery of the most strategic SaaS applications
across business
Identify and reassign duplicate and unused SaaS subscription
Identify and assign the most cost effective SaaS subscription
level for each user
Identify and deprovision zombie VMs running in public cloud
Deep component level utilization metrics on the most strategic
SaaS applications.
Virtual machine discovery across public cloud vendors along with
full inventory software components running on each
Self service access request for SaaS subscription and IaaS
environment request with automated approval driven workflows
Time bound provisioning of expensive subscriptions and IaaS
environments
For O365 - Consolidated visibility of all device based licenses,
cloud subscriptions and mobile devices across all employees
For O365 - Automated detection of unused subscriptions
Mobile Inventory
Same platform provides coverage of mobile inventory
Integration with MDM/EMM solutions to provide unified view of
the complete software landscape
Datacenter Optimization
Simplifies the management of complex datacenter licensing by
automatically calculating compliance position for all software
including processer and processor core licensed software on
both physical and virtual resources

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Built in Automation/Compliance
From automatic import of data from multiple sources, dynamic
processing of organization’s Effective License Position
Applies product use rights like secondary use, upgrade and
downgrade rights, virtualization use rights to fully utilize existing
entitlements
Simplify management of any licensing model with coverage of
full range of commercial licensing models.
Automatic detection of unused
software
All unused installations are automatically detected
SAM Managers can see the potential license optimization
opportunity or overspend and take correct action.
Tracking of unwanted software
Ability to blacklist unwanted software and get notification on
discovery of blacklisted software.
This enables keeping check on potentially harmful software like
file sharing apps
Whitelisting capability helps in managing approved software in
the organization
Oracle Management
Full recognition of Oracle databases, including versions and
edition
Identification of active Management Packs and Options
Active user tracking
Full customer-side visibility of audit results
Dynamic population of the Oracle Server Worksheet (OSW)
Automatic calculation of core factors.
Visualize Oracle Databases in the Datacenter, Minimize risk in
clustered environments
Snow Optimizer for SAP
Install and manage within the SAP environment (SAP certified)
View consolidated usage data across all SAP systems
Automate SAP user license administration
Identify and trace indirect usage
Centrally manage contracts and addendums
Contain HANA license costs
Optimize BusinessObjects licensing
Inventory & analyse SAP usage to eliminate wasted spend
Financial Management
Full insight of what is driving software cost in the organization
Highlights financial risks of non-compliance or non-optimized
assets
Trending functionality of existing trends and usage patterns
gives powerful support to forecast future costs or renegotiating
existing contracts

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Provides value of financial risk of unused software which exists
in the environment
Powerful Contract Management
Provides one central repository for all licenses, contracts,
agreements.
Role based access
Ability to create multiple roles based on the job profile. Correct
views can be enabled for specific role requirement.
Enables all stakeholders across the business with right view of
data provided for each.
Customizable reports/dashboards
Comprehensive list of reports and dashboards to enable all
stakeholders to get the right data for decision making.
Reports covering assets, compliance, financial management,
optimization
Easily Customizable reports and dashboards for specific
requirements.
Integration capabilities
Easy and out of box integration capabilities to integrate with
existing discovery/inventory tools, IT Asset Management
solutions or Service desk solutions.
Automated data import and export
All data cleansed through the same powerful Software
Recognition Service
OOTB connectors with systems like SCCM, Altiris, LANDesk, BMC
ADDM, IBM ILMT, BixFix Inventory etc.
OOTB connectors to MobileIron and AirWatch
Secured and Enterprise Class
Data from endpoints encrypted with 128 bit encryption and
send over HTTS secured channel
Full support for PKI and ability to use customer created
certificates also
Ease of use, installation and
maintenance
Easy to deploy in matter of weeks.
Provides automatic software updates through Snow Update
service. No need to go through software upgrade projects
Most user friendly and intuitive user interface. Easy to consume
information with easy navigation.

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